Toys purchased with box tops and pocket change in days-gone-by
abound in this fascinating and sweeping survey. Over 850 color
photographs display the wide range of items, including airplanes,
badges, booklets, decoders, pins, rings, and whistles, offered to
children throughout much of the twentieth century by bread and
cereal companies and over the radio. Favorite heroes of the
airwaves all had premium toys for their devoted fans to collect.
Found here are the premiums of radio's legendary heroes, including
Buck Rogers; Captains Marvel, Midnight and Video; Dick Tracy; Green
Hornet; the Lone Ranger; Red Ryder; Sky King; Superman; Tom
Corbett; and Tarzan -- among others! Also included in this wide
ranging book are methods for dating premiums using patent numbers
and area codes, brief reviews of many of the shows upon which so
many premiums were based, and values for the toys displayed. Values
are conveniently located in the captions. This book is must reading
for toy collectors and dealers and for anyone who ever saved their
box tops and then waited anxiously by the mailbox for some special
item to arrive.
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