{"id":290,"date":"2007-05-22T22:37:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T05:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpBlogs\/YellowedPerils_test\/?p=290"},"modified":"2026-02-06T17:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:04:07","slug":"a-symbol-of-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2007\/05\/22\/a-symbol-of-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"A symbol of membership"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve got my Shadow Club pin, which I picked up on eBay quite a while back. And I\u2019ve got Graphitti Designs\u2019 reproduction Doc Savage Club pin, which I bought during a visit to the defunct Caveman Comics in Mesa, Ariz., at my first Doc Con<\/a> almost three years ago. For years, I\u2019ve known about those two clubs, and their associated pins, created by Street & Smith during the 1930s.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve wondered off and on which other pulp heroes were deemed worthy enough by their publishers to warrant similar clubs and badges. And, over time, I\u2019ve come across several club pins.<\/p>\n

\"Pulp<\/a>
Pulp club pins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Besides The Shadow<\/strong> and Doc Savage<\/strong> pins, there were also badges for the Friends of the Phantom, the Lone Ranger Magazine<\/em> Club and the Flying Aces<\/em> Club (all pictured above, left to right). There was a second Flying Aces Club badge, too.<\/p>\n

(By the way, I\u2019m limiting this to premiums given away only by the pulp publishers \u2013 not reproductions or sponsor giveaways.)<\/p>\n

\"G-8<\/a>
G-8 wings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chris Kalb<\/strong> mentioned recently that he has a G-8 Club wings badge. And I\u2019ve seen a photo of a Sky Birds Escadrille bracelet, which I\u2019m assuming is related to the Sky Birds<\/em> pulp.<\/span> (Update:<\/strong> The Sky Birds Escadrille bracelet isn’t a pulp premium, but one given away by Sky Birds Bubble Gum.)<\/p>\n

And then there are the rings: The Spider<\/strong> and Operator #5<\/strong> are most obvious. (There was a glow-in-the-dark The Shadow ring, but it was issued by radio sponsor Blue Coal, so it doesn\u2019t count in this instance.)<\/p>\n

And The Spider pencil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Does anyone know and want to share information about other pulp club badges?<\/p>\n

Addendum:<\/strong> Chris sent along a photo of his G-8 wings, which I added above. Thanks, Chris!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve got my Shadow Club pin, which I picked up on eBay quite a while back. And I\u2019ve got Graphitti Designs\u2019 reproduction Doc Savage Club pin, which I bought during a visit to the defunct Caveman Comics in Mesa, Ariz., at my first Doc Con almost three years ago. For years, I\u2019ve known about those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulp-collectibles","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-4G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6972,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/6972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}