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<\/a><\/p>\nWhile digging into my button collection for this, I found many non-political ones which also had me feeling nostalgic.<\/p>\n
I got this next button in 1964 when I was nine years old. I joined the Merry Marvel Marching Society the moment its existence was announced. I can still remember filling a Junior Mints box with pennies, nickels, and dimes, taping the box closed, stuffing it in an envelope, and then forcibly taping that closed. It’s a miracle that the package made it to Madison Avenue. But it did, and so I wore this proudly for many years, much of the time on my X-Men t-shirt.<\/p>\n
Here’s a button I wore in the 6th grade at P.S. 115. There were many buttons available on this theme back then, though I’m not sure why. I guess it was part of a fad. But the fact that I chose to wear it proves that I had delusions of grandeur even then. <\/p>\n I picked up this next one at the 1972 EC Comics Convention held at the McAlpin Hotel, at which I tormented Bill Gaines with taunts about the National Lampoon<\/i>, saw all of the amazing original artwork from those comics, and got sketches from Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Marie Severin, and others.<\/p>\n Here are two buttons I grabbed at a July 4th weekend Comic Con, perhaps in 1979. Does anyone remember why<\/i> 1980 was being called the year of the Batman?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n