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Scope and ContentAdvertisement: Captain Tootsie Traps Killer Bear with Invisible Light. (Sweets Company of America, Hoboken), no date, circa 1947-1952. Full-page color comic strip style ad published in unknown publication, page unknown; single leaf removed from publication, trimmed, 6-1/4" x 9-1/8". The multi-panel strip promoted Tootsie Rolls which were made in Hoboken and the wrapped product plus Tootsie Pops are depicted in the ad. Artwork credited to C.C. Beck and Peter Costanza. This issue with the promotion for a ballpoint pen ("I am enclosing 10 wrappers" ..."a smooth-writing Ball-point Pen.") Coupon address: Tootsie Rolls, Box "P" Uptown, Hoboken, New Jersey.