1968 Topps #490 Super Stars - Harmon Killebrew / Willie Mays / Mickey Mantle
On this card: Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle
Super Stars combination card: Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle
About this card
This is one of the three combo cards in the 1968 Topps set - #480 Manager's Dream (Oliva, Cardenas and Clemente), #490 Super Stars (Killebrew, Mays and Mantle) and #530 Bird Belters (Frank and Brooks Robinson) - each pairing stars under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
The story on this card
Topps titled card #490 Super Stars and put three of the game's premier power hitters side by side: Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins, Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees. The timing made sense. Killebrew had just tied Carl Yastrzemski for the 1967 American League home run lead with 44, Mays and Mantle had each already passed 500 career home runs, and all three had been 1967 All-Stars. The card came out during Mantle's final big-league season. It comes from the sixth series.
Harmon Killebrew was the Twins' quiet, powerfully built slugger of the 1960s, a six-time American League home run champion who hit more homers in the decade than anyone else and won the 1969 AL Most Valuable Player award. Willie Mays was the Say Hey Kid, the five-tool center fielder of the New York and San Francisco Giants: Rookie of the Year in 1951, Most Valuable Player in 1954 and 1965, twelve straight Gold Gloves, 660 home runs, Hall of Fame in 1979. Mickey Mantle was the Yankees' switch-hitting center fielder across 18 seasons, a Triple Crown winner, three-time American League Most Valuable Player and seven-time World Series champion who hit 536 home runs on ruined legs.
Sources: Wikipedia (Harmon Killebrew) · Wikipedia (Willie Mays) · Wikipedia (Mickey Mantle) · SABR BioProject (Harmon Killebrew) · SABR BioProject (Willie Mays) · SABR BioProject (Mickey Mantle) · Baseball Almanac (Harmon Killebrew) · Baseball Almanac (Willie Mays) · Baseball Almanac (Mickey Mantle) · CBS Sports
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 5,126 | 30 | 190 | 644 | 660 | 791 | 706 | 2,068 | 37 |
| SGC | 2,112 | 0 | 21 | 83 | 171 | 258 | 437 | 1,088 | 54 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Data as of 2026-09-04. Half grades fold down for both graders (8.5→8); PSA qualified slabs (OC, ST, PD, MC and the like) are not counted. Slabs of the yellow team-letter #49 and #66 are 1968 Milton Bradley game cards and are not counted here.
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Team card: #137 Minnesota Twins
More Minnesota Twins cards:
- #4 American League 1967 RBI Leaders
- #6 American League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #10 American League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #12 American League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #28 Ted Uhlaender
- #44 Frank Kostro
More San Francisco Giants cards:
- #5 National League 1967 Home Run Leaders
- #9 National League 1967 Pitching Leaders
- #11 National League 1967 Strikeout Leaders
- #32 Joe Gibbon
- #50 Willie Mays
- #73 Jim Hart
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1968 Topps #490 card?
It is card #490 of the 598-card 1968 Topps Baseball set, picturing Harmon Killebrew, Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle. This is one of the three combo cards in the 1968 Topps set - #480 Manager's Dream (Oliva, Cardenas and Clemente), #490 Super Stars (Killebrew, Mays and Mantle) and #530 Bird Belters (Frank and Brooks Robinson) - each pairing stars under a headline rather than giving one man his own card.
What are the key cards in the 1968 Topps set?
#177 Mets Rookie Stars - the Nolan Ryan and Jerry Koosman rookie card - is the grail of the set, with #247 Reds Rookie Stars (the Johnny Bench rookie) and #280 Mickey Mantle beside it. #50 Willie Mays, #110 Hank Aaron, #150 Bob Clemente, #230 Pete Rose, #45 Tom Seaver and #80 Rod Carew (second-year cards wearing the All-Star Rookie trophy), the #480 Manager's Dream combo of Tony Oliva, Chico Cardenas and Bob Clemente, and the #490 Super Stars combo of Killebrew, Mays and Mantle round out the major cards; #250 Carl Yastrzemski (his solo card the year after his 1967 Triple Crown) and #330 Roger Maris (his last Topps card as an active player) are star cards. Scarcity is mild: the sixth and seventh series (#458-598) carry only a modest premium.
Is 1968 Topps #490 a scarce card?
It is from the sixth print series (cards 458-533). Together with series 7 it forms the #458-598 block that hobby sources price at a modest premium; several catalogs call these cards high numbers outright.
How many cards are in the 1968 Topps Baseball set?
598 cards, tracked as 606 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 598 without a gap and no printed number carries two different cards; eight cards - six of the seven checklists, #10 AL Pitching Leaders and #400 Mike McCormick - carry a catalogued print variation that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, Baseball Almanac, Beckett, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-12.