The Sky King
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book? The very successful television show Sky King Theatre, which ran
from 1951 – 1954 and was sponsored by Peter Pan, changed its name to simply
Sky King and its sponsorship to Nabisco in 1956. Many premiums resulted
from the Nabisco sponsorship, but the last documented give-away was the 1964
Sky King comic book called Runaway Train that, while not too
expensive, is a very rare find.
The rarest and most valuable of all the
Sky King premiums is the Sky King Kaleidoscope Ring, which is valued in
the new Hake’s Price Guide to Character Toys #4 at $12,500.
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