Corpse Knight – Gunther : 2025

Corpse Knight Gunther is a Korean Webtoon by Mayo-Nuguri – Just as expected, the war between humans and vampires has ended with the victory of the vampires. In an effort to strike back, human refugees in the Holy Land “Bahal” successfully create an undying Corpse Knight, attached to a power source that can sustain him. Gunther, former gladiator and now corpse knight, is humanity’s last hope.

Oakland Invaders - USFL : 1983-1985

Enamel pins:

The Oakland Invaders were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League (USFL) from 1983 through 1985. Based in Oakland, California, they played at the Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum.

Honeymooners - Showtime : 1985

Jackie Gleason sold the broadcast rights to the "lost" episodes to Viacom, and they first were aired from 1985 to 1986 as a series of 68 22-minute episodes on the Showtime cable network.  

Lethal Dose of Love : 2024

 

He’ll never forget him—his ex-classmate Yuu, that is. College student Ryousuke was absolutely devastated when Yuu confessed and then promptly disappeared from his life without waiting for a reply. After desperately searching for years, he’s overjoyed when they suddenly bump into each other. But his happiness is soon eclipsed as he watches Yuu walk off into the arms of another man…

Written by Yosumi – Yen Press LLC

Roughsketch – Notebook Records

 

Roughsketch, born 1987. In 2004, he started the “Roughsketch Project”. Roughsketch is well known for his experimental style with having borderless essences in his tunes, and released them through “X-TREME HARD” “HARDCORE TANO*C” “MOB SQUAD TOKYO” which is some of the biggest hardcore labels in Japan today. From 2010 and on, Roughsketch reached further and released overseas in such labels as “Megarave” which is one of the oldest hardcore label, and “Hard Kryptic Records” which is an American hard dance label.

Roughsketch is a resident DJ, and also is the host of one and only hardcore event “YATSUZAKI HARDCORE” in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. Roughsketch also hosts a label called “Notebook Records” and have released various CDs.

Lycoris Recoil : 2024

 

2024 – NYCC – Yen Press exclusive pinback button

Takina Inoue is a member of a government-sponsored all-female task force of assassins and spies made up of young orphaned girls known as “Lycoris”, an undercover group named after the flower who eliminate criminals and terrorists in Tokyo while disguised as high school students to maintain peace in Japan, with roots in a fictional pre-Meiji group named “Higanbana”.

A manga adaptation by Yasunori Bizen began serialization in Media Factory’s manga magazine Monthly Comic Flapper on September 5, 2022. The first volume of the manga was released on December 22, 2022, and an official anthology was released on the same date. The manga is licensed in North America by Yen Press.

Rolling Stones -: 1991 Urban Jungle Tour

Rolling Stones Urban Jungle Tour ran from May to August 1990. These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. Performances from the tour were documented on the album Flashpoint, and the video Live at the Max, both released in 1991.

Scripts-Howard Junior Aviator : 1930s

 

If you want a pair of these smart bronze wings which all Junior Aviators are entitled to wear, enclose six cents with your membership application if mailed. You can get wings for five cents by coming to the Press.

Junior Aviator pins were available through various Scripts-Howard newspapers

Beginning After the End - Yen Press - NYCC 2022

2.25-inch pin-back button

The Beginning After the End, Vol. 1 from Yen Press

King Grey is a remarkable ruler with a prosperous reign, and yet…opulence and success cannot bury emptiness and solitude. His time as king, however, comes to an abrupt end, and he reincarnates as Arthur Leywin—a baby born in a world of magic and monsters. Equipped with memories of his previous life and the desire to protect the newfound warmth surrounding him, Art begins his journey of becoming a strong warrior once again. Sword training, mana coreformation, magic studies—Art does it all in order to be as powerful as can be! But will it be enough to repel the dangerous forces that threaten his second chance at life…?

Kong: Skul Island : 2016

2-inch

©2016 Warner Bros Entertainment Inc ©2016 Legend Pictures LLC

Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. It is a reboot of the King Kong franchise and the second film in the Monsterverse franchise.  In the film, a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers in the year 1973 travel to the uncharted Skull Island and encounter many of the island's monsters, including the mighty Kong. Kong: Skull Island was theatrically released on March 10, 2017, by Warner Bros. Pictures, to generally positive reviews from critics. It was a box office success

Michigan Panthers - USFL

The Michigan Panthers were a professional American football team based in Metro Detroit. The Panthers competed in the United States Football League (USFL) as a member of the Western Conference and Central Division. The team played its home games at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan.

Amid financial struggles following the 1984 season, the team was merged with the Oakland Invaders in 1985, where they would operate under the Invaders name.

The Panthers won the inaugural USFL Championship, 24–22 over the Philadelphia Stars. 

Jockey Club - Newport KY

 

Pops Pirate Club : 1932

1 15/16-inch tin litho buttons by Green Duck

Ranks of Pirate Radio Chief Growing Rapidly – If Capt Kidd of Capt Morgan had as many pirates as the Chief at the Pirate's Cave, either of them might have become master of the Seven Seas. That is the boast of the present day pirate chief who is heard every evening, except Saturday and Sunday, over WBEN-WEAF network at 5:30PM

The chief, whose identity is secret points out that his influence is spreading everywhere. His third mate's badge bearing the Jolly roger is popping up everywhere on sweaters and caps. Pirate caves are being dug in vacant lots and back yards and the Pirate song can be heard up and down streets in the evening, sung by those boys and girls who have won the secret password. 1932 Newspaper article -  Sponsored by Wheat and Rice Pop cereals

2-inch cello buttons from "The Pirate Club" each featuring skull and cross bones motif, not known is if these are related to the "Pops" series but they are of similar design and age. The cellos are by Bastian - Hake's 

Worthpoint listed them in an auction as part of the Pops radio show. 

XXIII Olympiad : 1984 Los Angeles CA

2.25-inch

Olympic Eagle Star In Motion Pin Back Buttons

Olympic Ticket - Olympic Museum

XXIII Olympiad - The 1984 Summer Olympics were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It was the second time that Los Angeles had hosted the Games, the first being in 1932. This was the first of two consecutive Olympic Games to be held in North America, with Calgary, Alberta, Canada, hosting the 1988 Winter Olympics. 

The 1984 Games were boycotted by fourteen Eastern Bloc countries, including the Soviet Union and East Germany, in response to the American-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan