1979/80 Topps Hockey Wax Box (BBCE)

This is THE Box.
If you ever wanted to buy a sweet box and put it away this is it.
Maybe you've heard of Wayne Gretzky - Probably the greatest Hockey player ever !
This is the box that contains his Rookie Card.
These boxes have almost completely dried-up.
You never see them anymore.

36 packs per box, 10 cards and 1 sticker per pack

The 1979-80 Topps set consists of 264 standard-size cards. Card numbers 81 and 82 (Stanley Cup Playoffs), 163 (Ulf Nilsson RB) and 261 (NHL Entries) differ from those of O-Pee-Chee. Unopened packs consist of ten cards plus a piece of bubble gum. The fronts contain a blue border. The player's name, team and position are at the top with team logo at the bottom. Career and 1978-79 statistics, short biography and a cartoon-illustrated fact about the player appear on the back. Included in this set are players from the four remaining WHA franchises that were absorbed by the NHL. The franchises are the Edmonton Oilers, Hartford Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets. The set features the Rookie Card of Wayne Gretzky and the last cards of a Hall of Fame crop including Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Ken Dryden and Stan Mikita.