Round pinback button featuring an image of newspaper comic character Muggs McGinnis. The button advertises the character’s self-titled syndicated comic strips appearence in The Washington Herald a Washington DC newspaper published from 1906-1939.
Wally Bishop’s Muggs McGinnis was introduced to newspaper readers in 1927. Muggs, an everyday American boy, was eventually joined by a brother, and in 1936 the strip was retitled Muggs and Skeeter. Over the course of its run the boys aged into their teens, with Bishop retiring the strip in 1974.
