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Scope and ContentAdvertisement: Pete the Flash Scores for Captain Tootsie. (Sweets Company of America, Hoboken), no date, circa 1947-1952. Full-page color comic strip style ad published in unknown Superman DC National Comics publication, page unknown; single leaf removed from publication, trimmed, 6-1/2" x 9-1/4". 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 Bill Schreiber 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.