Comic FDC: 2024

Thursday, October 10, 2024

Business envelopes - The Studios

Hanna-Barbera - Scooby Doo meter

Hanna-Barbera - Fred Flintstone

1954 Disney meter - Rob Roy: The Highland Rogue is an adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, which is about Rob Roy MacGregor.

1964 Disney meter - Mary Poppins

1962 Disney meter - Moon Pilot is an American Technicolor science fiction comedy film from Walt Disney Productions, released through Buena Vista Distribution

1963 Disney meter - Look to the name Walt Disney for the finest in family entertainment

Disney animator Carl Barks

Charles Mintz - 1932

1977 prior to the release of the Motion Pictures stamp, I sent a letter to several movie studios requesting an un sed business envelope to create first day cover. I was pleasantly surprised to receive a couple of responses:

MGM

Walt Disney World

Paramount Pictures Corp - signed by actress Jane Russell

1937 Warner Brothers meter - That Certain Woman - American melodramatic film written and directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Bette Davis, Henry Fonda and Anita Louise

1982 Extra-Terrestrial Productions - Rocky III

Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Business envelopes - Publishers

EC Comics - Creepshow Comic Book Club - New York

EC Comics - 1953

Fawcett Publications - 1941

Detective Comics (National - DC Comics) - 1946 War Bonds meter

DC Comics - Superman

Mad Magazine - 1963 I Read Mad meter

Classics Illustrated - 1953

Marvel Comics - c 1987

Marvel No-Prize envelope - 1969

Marvel Production Ltd - 1983

Monday, September 30, 2024

Before Alfred

1944 - US Navy

Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Navy

1945 Hermosa Beach Ca

Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Armed Forces by Crackey!

1945-Shamrock Tx

Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the Navy

1945-Harbor Or

Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the WACS, and Quite Milking Cows

1945 - Hermosa Beach Ca

Me Worry? H--- No! I'm Gonna Join the U.S. Navy and fight.........

Patriotic covers produced during the second World War utilizing the Simp character

A popular anti New Deal, anti Franklin Roosevelt celluloid pin, featuring the character known as IMA Simp, a forerunner of MAD Magazine’s Alfred E. Neuman. Mr. Simp was a famous image for a clueless person. The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 - Pinback Travels

Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of the American humor magazine Mad. The character's distinct smiling face, gap-toothed smile, freckles, red hair, protruding ears, and scrawny body dates back to late 19th-century advertisements for painless dentistry, also the origin of his "What, me worry?" motto. The magazine's founder and original editor, Harvey Kurtzman, began using the character in 1954. He was named "Alfred E. Neuman"

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Business envelopes - The Comics

Even though I have slowed down on obtaining hand-drawn art, I still research information for my collection. Since both of my parents worked for an envelope manufacturing company, and my father was a stamp collector, I was always had an interest in illustrated envelopes. In the late 1890s the envelopes were decorated with fantastic engraved images representing the sender's business. Recent improvements in methods of communications (e-mail, text, facebook, instagram etc) have made it easier to reach someone quickly, but the message is sterile and lacks anticipation of having to wait and then open the envelope to reveal the message. Therefore I still have a fascination for certain envelope that have been placed through the mail.

Some of these business envelope offer a postage meter that features a slogan that may represent their business interests. I recently came across a few envelopes that are comic related: