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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheNickelGuy, post: 8161571, member: 20201&quot;]<font size="6"><b>1930&#039;s Frank Buck - Bring &#039;em back alive </b></font></p><p><font size="5"><b>Brass Medal 31 mm</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424617[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424618[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank Buck was an adventurer who became world famous for his safari trips around the world and for bringing back over 100,000 live exotic and wild animals to the US for zoos and circuses. He appeared in adventure films and is a co star in Abbott &amp; Costello&#039;s 1949 &quot;Africa Screams&quot;.</p><p>He was the director for the San Diego Zoo. There were comic and adventure books for kids and bubble gum cards. One Topps card I have is shown below.</p><p><br /></p><p>Frank Buck toured with Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus and brought his popular &quot;Jungle Camp&quot; to the 1939 New York World&#039;s Fair. &quot;Frank Buck&#039;s Jungleland&quot; displayed rare birds, reptiles, and wild animals, along with a five-year-old trained orangutan named Jiggs. </p><p>In addition, Buck provided a trio of performing Asian elephants, an 80-foot &quot;monkey mountain&quot; with 600 monkeys, and camel rides.</p><p>Frank Buck also wrote numerous books. In his time during the earlier half of the 20th century, he filled the imagination of kids and adults and was a big star known by all.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>1950 Topps Bring Em Back Alive No. 32</b></font></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424619[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1424620[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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