Harry Caray : 1914-1998

3-inch 1980s - Button of Chicago's Icon Harry Caray. Sponsored by Budweiser Beer"Vote for Harry Caray for Mayor of Rush St."Features advertising from many local establishments around the outside edge. Caray was known to frequently socialize at the many area bars

3-inch Budweiser promo pin-back button

3-inch Holy Cow soda - 1988, Vess (a St Louis-based soda) signed Harry Caray to a soda deal.  The Harry Caray line consisted of cola, orange, lemon-lime, root beer, creme and a diet cola. 

Harry Christopher Caray (1914 – 1998) was an American radio and television sportscaster. During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals (with two of those years also spent calling games for the St. Louis Browns). After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.

Cubs Memorial patch

Red Go-Cart

Red go-cart was formed in 1996 as a home-recording unit by Tomomi Usui and Yuji Usui. They later began performing as a band and started giving live shows. Their fast-paced, jungle-style live performances have captured the hearts of indie fans.

Red Go-Cart bandcamp

Batman Club - promotional

 

Ron Riley, WLS Radio Chicago on-air personality formed a Batman Fan Club in conjunction with the Chicago ABC affiliate station to coincide with the ACT-TV Batman series, which debuted in 1966. WBKB-TV changed its call sign to WLS-TV in 1968

1966 - WXYZ TV7 Detroit 2.25-inch

eBay offering - 1966 Batman TV Series Fan Club - Curl text: 100 ©Kalan Philia 19151

Bat Kids 2.2-inch (58mm)

Official Batman Club - 3-inch Curl text: ©1966 National Periodical PublicationsInc

WAAF 107fm Boston - promotional button for the release of 1989 Batman movie starring Micheal Keaton and Jack Nicholson

Saturday Daily News : 1930s

13/16-inch litho with curl text "Lou Fox-Chicago." 

Mutt & Jeff (Bud Fisher 1907) Li'l Abner & Abner's Ma (Al Capp 1934) Dan Dunn (Norman W Marsh 1933) Apple Mary & Dennie (Martha Orr 1934) Ella Cinder (William Conselman & Charles Plumb 1925)

Tippy Teen - Tower Comics

Tippy Teen is a 1960s comic book series published by Tower Comics created by veteran artists like Samm Schwartz as an affectionate knockoff of Archie Comics. It follows a fun-loving, boy-crazy blonde protagonist named Tippy alongside her teenage friends in the fictional town of Centerville.

The Movie Channel

The Movie Channel is an American premium television network owned by Showtime Networks, a division of Paramount Skydance Corporation operated through its Paramount Media Networks division. Not including CBS, it is the oldest network owned by Paramount. The Movie Channel's programming mainly features first-run theatrically released and independently produced motion pictures, and during promotional breaks between films, special behind-the-scenes features and movie trivia. Originally operated and sold as a standalone service (launching as Star Channel in February 1973)

 

Dick Tracy - Chester Gould

Tracy and Little Orphan Annie promoting Genung's NJ department store. 1930s 1.25-inch - James Spencer, Phila. back paper.

Dick Tracy and Junior - 1-inch - curl text: Parisian

1.25-inch - Chicago Tribune, Detroit Mirror or New York Daily News backing papers

1970s Elect Dick Tracy - Button Up Co

Dick Tracy Crimestopper WGN Chicago TV-9