Today, the U.S. Postal Service is scheduled to release the Sunday Funnies commemorative stamps. The 44-cent stamp collection features five designs and honors Archie, Beetle Bailey, Dennis the Menace, Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes.
Art director Ethel Kessler selected the images that appear on the stamps. The Beetle Bailey stamp features Beetle, smiling calmly while Sarge loses his cool.
The Calvin and Hobbes stamp captures the precocious 6-year-old and his tiger pal making scary and ridiculous faces.
The Archie stamp features Archie sharing a chocolate shake with brunette Veronica Lodge on his right and blonde Betty Cooper on his left.
The Garfield stamp features the crabby tabby standing back to back with Odie, a carefree, energetic dog.
The Dennis the Menace stamp features 5-year-old Dennis, dressed in red overalls and striped shirt, running off to some new adventure.
In addition to a pane of 20 stamps for collecting or mailing, the stamps also are featured on ceremony program ($6.95), as an uncut press sheet ($79.20), as a set of five first-day covers ($4.10) and with a digital color postmark ($7.50). All
I totally want some of these stamps!
ReplyDeleteI bought out the comic strip stamps at our little Post Office. They didn't even know they had them until I asked them to look for them! They will be great foils for lots of mail art to come!!
ReplyDeleteBought these yesterday! Love them!
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