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Cut-Out Toys — Puggy Pup

· April 15, 1923

Cut-Out Toys — Puggy Pup
This newspaper supplement presents a die-cut paper toy featuring Puggy Pup, a comic character rendered in bold black-and-white line work typical of 1920s Sunday funny pages. The design includes body parts with printed assembly instructions, patterned surfaces for coloring, and a back-view diagram showing how pieces connect. Such cut-out features were standard newspaper offerings, extending comic characters beyond the strip itself into children's hands-on play. The geometric patterns and simplified forms reflect the graphic vocabulary newspapers developed to reproduce clearly in newsprint while providing affordable home entertainment during the interwar period.

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