Black text on yellow background.

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Many pinback buttons were distributed with High Admiral Cigarettes to promote the Hogan's Alley comic strip, created by Richard F. Outcault (1863-1928).  The comic strip featured the character The Yellow Kid, AKA Mickey Dugan, a bald young boy wearing an over-sized yellow nightshirt, on which would be written different quotes (such as the example pictured) which featured in the comic.  The Yellow Kid first appeared in Truth, a weekly humor magazine in 1883, but gained city-wide success appearing in the New York World newspaper as a single-panel color cartoon called Hogan's Alley in 1895.

Blue illustration of Andy Gump with white background, blue text and blue and white checkered edge.

The Gumps, created by Sidney Smith, were a popular comic strip about a middle-class family. It ran 42 years in newspapers from 1917 to 1959. Chinless character Andy Gump is seen here saying one of his frequent expressions, "Oh Min", referring to his wife Minerva.

Bold blue lettering on yellow background.

Pro-alcohol button that allows the wearer to "test" anyone's drink.

White text on red background.

This pinback was given out as a premium when a package of Favorite Cigarettes was purchased. The phrase "Nobody loves a fat man" was made popular in 1907 by the Broadway play The Round Up. The slogan became a kind of proverb during the first half of the twentieth century and was used often in advertisements.  

Favorite Cigarettes were first manufactured in 1886 in Richmond, Virginia by the Pace and Sizer Tobacco Company and the ownership of the cigarettes would change multiple times until production was ceased. The company that manufactured this particular pinback, Whitehead and Hoag Co., was one of the largest manufacturers of buttons during the late 19th century.  

Simple black text on white background.

Com-Share was originally founded in 1966 by employees at the University of Michigan. The company initially focused its business on time-sharing, a then-growing concept where several users would remotely share the same mainframe to perform computer tasks. Their proprietary software, Commander II, helped manage users' schedules and processes to prevent system conflicts. In 1968, they took the company public.

Through the 1970s and 80s, Com-Share shifted its focus to data analysis software and found general success in the market. However, much of their software was made for the IBM operating system, which was made largely obsolete to Microsoft Windows in the 1990s. Com-Share is now defunct.

Black text and illustration of a confused baby goat (aka kid) on an orange background.

Maniacal white font on light yellow background with confetti. 

Possibly inspired by the 1983 Flashdance song by the same name performed by Michael Sembello.

White text and music notations on red background.

A good party starting button.