CHICAGO 1949 "SUN-TIMES COMIC CAPERS CLUB" RARE BUTTON FEATURING SUPERMAN.
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Winning Bid:
$454.30
(Includes 18% Buyer's Premium)
Bidding Ended:
Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:00:00 AM (20 Minute Clock Begins At Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:00:00 AM)
Item Description
2-3/16" button with metal back and horizontal bar pin was first pictured and promoted in the January, 1949 Chicago issued publication titled TV Forecast which provided scheduling information to Chicago viewers. The text of the article references the Sunday Sun-Times newspaper as well as TV channel WBKB. The TV program featured Don and Vera Ward reading some of the "Funny's" from the newspaper and the article offered this membership button. We've had only a few examples of this button in our 50 years and this precise documentation of its origin was only recently discovered in a copy of the TV Forecast publication found in the Franco Toscanini Superman Collection. In addition to Superman pictured are a parrot along with the comic characters Nancy and Sluggo. A little silver luster off the reverse with the front being near flawless except for a near pinpoint dark dot above Sluggo's hat which appears to be a minute speck of paper trapped beneath the celluloid. Almost no surface wear, high gloss and no color fade. NM as made.
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