Proposed but never produced c.1950s premium for “Tide” soap detergent. Includes 3.75x10.75" thin art-board designed as wrap to go around box with art image of Red in center and text “Special Red Skeleton Comic Book Offer! Free 48 Page Red Skeleton Fun, Game and Comic Book Free With Two Packages Of Tide”. Comes with 5.5x8.5" prototype fun book with 48 pages hand-drawn in lead pencil, crayon and watercolor with designs for games, puzzles, magic tricks, comics, animated cutouts. Back cover is sample ad which includes pair of newspaper clipped cutouts for “Tide”. Red Skeleton characters include Politician, Deadeye, Junior, and Cauliflower McPugg. Neatly cutout loose pieces include McPugg mask, mustache, “Red’s Rangers” Membership Card, cutout figure with plaid jacket and large shoes, McPugg as Presto Chango character, rubber band gun, life preserver with image, and three designs for litho tabs along with spinner game with boxing glove. Also comes with four different photostats for finger puppets which have been hand water-colored. Trace of lt. dust soil here and there with some lt. aging but group is overall VF+. Nicely designed group with some great images. From the archives of premium creators Sam & Gordon Gold, accompanied by a letter to that effect from Gordon Gold.