Frank H. Fleer

{{Short description|American confectioner (1860–1921)}}

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Frank Henry Fleer (1860{{cite web|last1=Benjamin|first1=Susan|title=The First Pop and Blam of Bubblegum!|url=https://coolconfectionariesblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/20/the-first-pop-and-blam-of-bubblegum/|website=Cool Confectionaries Blog|publisher=Susan Benjamin|accessdate=July 26, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{mdash}}November 1, 1921) was an American confectioner who is thought to have developed the first bubble gum. Fleer founded the Frank H. Fleer Corporation in 1919 as a gum manufacturer. Fleer's original formulation, called Blibber-Blubber, was never marketed to the public. It was not until 1928 that Walter Diemer, an accountant in Fleer's company, was able to refine the formulation and became marketed by Fleer's company as Dubble Bubble.

Fleer's company also went on to be innovators in the baseball card business, adding trading cards in 1923.Stasff report (July 15, 2005). [http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2005/07/11/daily55.html Fleer auction nets $6.1M.] Philadelphia Business Journal