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Originally Posted by Johnphotoman
I ask this question because of the Hopalong Cassidy cards. Hopalong Cassidy Bond Bread cards were printed by Topps, not to be confused with Topps Hopalong Cassidy cards: Topps issued their own set of the 1950 Topps Hopalong Cassidy cards. Which had 230 cards in the set and eight print foil cards into their packs. The set is divided into ten different stories. The fronts feature photographs from the show and the backs have descriptions of the episodes. Topps Bond Bread were issued in Bond Bread and had Bond Bread advertising on them.
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I've never seen anything tying Topps to the larger Bond Bread branded Hoppy's. I have to question if that's accurate, although happy to be proven wrong and I may have confused you with how I posted those ACC images.
Side note-The Topps Hoppy's reissued in those Bond Bread penny packs should just be designated R712-2 IMO, they have no additional markings than those from Topps. W571 does not refer to the Hoppy's at all, I posted that in respect of the smaller B&W 24/48 sports card sets. The Hoppy "Ways of the West" cards are D89 (with two different style fronts, one that takes up the entire bottom quarter of the card with a color Bond Bread ad (-a), then the the one style shown above, which is -b) while Hoppy bread end labels are designated as D290-8. I'm not sure about the sizing of D89 in the ACC, described as 2" x 3". That sizing may have picked up the F278-12 Post Cereal Hoppy's, which were color illustrations on cards near that size. There's also the blank backed color Bond Bread branded Hoppy's with facsimile greetings and autograph, that seem to be PC sized, it seems they were a premium offering. Watson's Non-Sports Bible has these as D126 but that was not a listing n the 1960 ACC and I can't find it in Barker's updates, although I only skimmed them just now. NSB does not show sizes for the non-Topps Bond Hoppy's.
"Modern" cards in the ACC, meaning issued since WW2 ended, were often given short shrift in the ACC as most of the editors had disdain for them and they missed many widely available issues, although Buck Barker's Updates from 1960-72 did a pretty good job of picking up the stragglers and in monitoring contemporary sets.