Lot # 2916: 1954 Sports Illustrated Issue #1 CGC VF 8.0

Highly desirable first issue of Sports Illustrated, published on August 16, 1954. Graded VF 8.0 by CGC. The issue is complete with the three-page fold-out of twenty-seven 1954 Topps insert cards. The cards, which were a special promotion prepared in conjunction with Topps, makes this first issue of all the greater note to collectors. Interestingly, Sports Illustrated saved dozens of boxes of the first issue in its archives. Finally, in 1994, it released the entire inventory to the collecting community.