{"id":3785,"date":"2010-07-14T06:45:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T10:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=3785"},"modified":"2010-07-14T00:46:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T04:46:19","slug":"pins-from-dc-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/14\/pins-from-dc-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"Pins from DC Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back in the late-80s through the mid-90s I was a big fan of pins.\u00a0 I loved wearing pins on my shirts, especially those associated with comic books!\u00a0 Thankfully comic companies were generous with giveaway pins and also sold some nice quality cloisonne pins. Cloisonne pins are small decorative pins worn on the lapel of a coat or shirt collar. Typically these pins are made from metal and enamel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Below is a collection of my pins that relate to DC Comics.\u00a0 All of these are simply painted metal with the exception of the Batman cloisonne pin and the Superman Kryptonite stick pin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DC Comics Buttons\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button4.jpg\" alt=\"DC Comics Buttons\" width=\"700\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are the pins shown above:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>In the upper left-hand corner you&#8217;ve got several Superman-related pins: three &#8220;S&#8221; shields; the Superman Kryptonite stick pin (with a fake Kryptonite rock); a &#8220;Vote Lex 2000&#8221;  Presidential campaign pin; and a <em>Reign of the Supermen<\/em> &#8220;I SAW THE KID&#8221; button-like thing.\u00a0 I wore the silver &#8220;S&#8221; shield pins all the time!<\/li>\n<li>In the lower left-hand corner you&#8217;ve got two <em>Green Lantern<\/em> pins &#8211; one to promote the launch of the 1990 series, the other to promote Kyle Rayner sometime around issue #50.<\/li>\n<li>In the lower middle you&#8217;ve got two DC Comics &#8220;bullet&#8221; pins &#8211; one blue and one red.\u00a0 These are pretty nice pins.<\/li>\n<li>In the middle you&#8217;ve got a Batman cloisonne pin that came with the Press Kit for the 1989 <em>Batman <\/em>movie.\u00a0 The pin is based upon a Bob Kane drawing that was blatantly ripped off from a Todd McFarlane drawing of Batman.<\/li>\n<li>Also in the middle is the &#8220;Legion of Substitute Editors&#8221; pin that was given to me at a convention by a DC Editor (Mark Waid if memory serves).<\/li>\n<li>Also in the middle is a neat <em>Doom Patrol<\/em> pin, and beneath that is a Hawkman pin (I believe to promote the launch of the <em>Hawkworld<\/em> monthly).\u00a0 The Hawkman pin adorned my favorite &#8220;Gilligan&#8221; hat I wore daily in high school.<\/li>\n<li>In the upper-middle you&#8217;ve got a cool silver <em>Flash <\/em>pin.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">And finally on the right you&#8217;ve got two <em>Vertigo <\/em>pins.\u00a0 &#8220;Get Anxious&#8221; was their campaign leading up to the launch of the <em>Vertigo <\/em>line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The next two below are lenticular buttons given away in 1992 to promote the relaunch of the Justice League books.\u00a0 The lenticular printing process makes images appear to change as the button is viewed from different angles.\u00a0 You change the angle of the button, a different image would appear.\u00a0 In this case each button had two images &#8211; the team logo and a drawing of the team members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first one is for <em>Justice League America<\/em>.\u00a0 It was a new beginning for the JLA starting with <em>Justice League Spectacular<\/em> and following in <em>Justice League America<\/em> #61.\u00a0 New writer and artist Dan Jurgens was hoping to return the Justice League to their former glory.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it didn&#8217;t exactly turn out that way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Justice League America Lenticular Button by Dan Jurgens\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button5a.jpg\" alt=\"Justice League America Lenticular Button by Dan Jurgens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Justice League America Lenticular Button by Dan Jurgens\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button5b.jpg\" alt=\"Justice League America Lenticular Button by Dan Jurgens\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time, writer Gerard Jones and artist Ron Randall were hoping to revitalize the JLE with <em>Justice League Spectacular<\/em> and following in <em>Justice League Europe<\/em> #37.\u00a0 Again, it didn&#8217;t exactly turn out like they hoped.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Justice League Europe Lenticular Button by Ron Randall\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button6a.jpg\" alt=\"Justice League Europe Lenticular Button by Ron Randall\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Justice League Europe Lenticular Button by Ron Randall\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/button6b.jpg\" alt=\"Justice League Europe Lenticular Button by Ron Randall\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My thanks to Rob of the <a title=\"Justice League pins on the Aquaman Shrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aquamanshrine.com\/2010\/06\/jli-pins-1992.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aquaman Shrine<\/a> for inspiring today&#8217;s post!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That&#8217;s it for today. 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Below are several\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Comics Keychains","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/keychains_comics.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2900,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/26\/dc-comics-snuggie\/","url_meta":{"origin":3785,"position":2},"title":"OMG, I bought a Snuggie&#8230; Have I lost my mind?!?!","date":"February 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I bought a DC Comics Snuggie?!?!\u00a0 First off, it's not really a \"Snuggie\", it's a \"Comfy Throw\".\u00a0 What does that mean?\u00a0 That means it's a body-length blanket with sleeves made of fleece material; similar in design to a bathrobe that is worn backwards.\u00a0 Yeah, I know.\u00a0 That's the definition of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;apparel&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"DC Comics Snuggie with Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, and Aquaman","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/dc_snuggie1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":52,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/04\/30\/1997-a-surprisingly-good-year-for-comics\/","url_meta":{"origin":3785,"position":3},"title":"1997 &#8211; A surprisingly good year for comics","date":"April 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was reading an old comic\u00a0this weekend from 1997, and as I noticed\u00a0the ads\u00a0I picked up on something.\u00a0 There were actually quite a few good comics being published in 1997.\u00a0 Surprise!\u00a0 We typically think of the 1990's as an ugly period in comic publishing history,\u00a0but after thinking about it, I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3479,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/24\/fringes-alternate-universe-dc-comics-covers\/","url_meta":{"origin":3785,"position":4},"title":"Fringe&#8217;s Alternate Universe DC Comics Covers","date":"May 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"If you watched NBC's Fringe season finale on Friday, you may have spotted these bizarre DC comics covers.\u00a0 Don't worry, you didn't imagine them.\u00a0 They were all reminiscent of famous DC covers, but with some alterations.\u00a0 The Fringe episode dipped into an alternate universe where even the smallest details were\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Red Lantern\/Red Arrow #76 - Fringe DC Comics crossover","src":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/mock-red-lantern-red-arrow.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":83,"url":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2008\/06\/10\/dc-comics-a-newbies-guide\/","url_meta":{"origin":3785,"position":5},"title":"DC Comics&#8230; a newbie&#8217;s guide","date":"June 10, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I was asked\u00a0to recommend a few DC comics to help a\u00a0newbie\u00a0reader get started. With approximately 70 years of comics published out there, it can seem a daunting task to figure out where to begin.\u00a0 Personally I would recommend you start off with some of the\u00a0collected editions (typically called graphic novels\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;comic books&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3785"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3785\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}