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Post Toasties Cereal Melvin Purvis, Jr. G-Man ad–Sunday Comics–1936-Split Wire

Post Toasties Cereal Melvin Purvis, Jr. G-Man ad–Sunday Comics–1936-Split Wire

$ 6.85

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Date of Creation: 1936
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • Brand: Post
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Color: Multi-color
  • Condition: This ad is in very good condition
  • Theme: Cereal
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

    Description

    Offered for sale is an ad for Post Toasties Corn Flakes Cereal promoting the Melvin Purvis Junior G-Man Corps. This ad is from the Comics section in a Sunday Newspaper from 1936.
    The story this week is “THE SPLIT WIRE. . or, How Melvin Purvis Captured the McManus Train Robbers.
    Melvin Purvis, as a Special Agent of the FBI, became well known for his role in the investigations and manhunts related to a number of well-known criminals of the early 1930s, including Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd and John Dillinger, and others.
    After leaving the FBI Purvis teamed up with Post Toasties Corn Flakes breakfast cereal and formed the Junior G-Man’s Corp and later the Law and Order Patrol. Purvis was head of these organizations and Membership in was obtained by sending in box tops from Post Toasties. A variety of Junior G-Man badges and other toys which could be purchased by sending in box tops from Post Toasties Cereal.
    This ad measures approximately 10 ½ by 15 inches.