• Few promotional items were more coveted than the Captain Midnight decoder badge, such as this gold-colored one from 1949, which needed to be unlocked with an accompanying key.
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    Few promo­tional tie-ins were more coveted than a Captain Midnight decoder badge, such as this 1949 Key-O-Matic Code-O-Graph. (Courtesy Larry Zdeb)

  • Few promotional items were more coveted than the Captain Midnight decoder badge, such as this gold-colored one from 1949, which needed to be unlocked with an accompanying key.

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