Wizard of Oz - Classic Films : 1990

1990-Mar-23 Hollywood CA - Wizard of Oz Classic Films 

Commemorates 50th anniversary of four Oscar-nominated films (1940).  Each stamp resembles a miniature movie poster with bright, glossy colors.  They picture the stars of each film, as well as the title and a scene from the movie in the background.  Thomas Blackshear was chosen to do the artwork for the stamps.  He used original movie posters and photographs from the films as inspiration.

The First Day of Issue ceremony for the Classic Movie stamps took place at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California, though the postmark was Hollywood.  This was the location of the 62nd Academy Awards celebration three days later.

The Wizard of Oz was based on a children’s book by L. Frank Baum.  The film was notable for its use of Technicolor, a fairly new invention at the time.  Its special effects were also ahead of their time.  Judy Garland, the star of the show, won a special Academy Award as a “screen juvenile.”  The film also took home the best song and best scoring awards.  In 1956, The Wizard of Oz was first broadcast on television.  It became a yearly favorite of American viewers.

envelope with the four classic film stamps:

Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Beau Geste and Stagecoach

The Oz Film Manufacturing Co - Los Angeles CA

Rube Goldberg's Inventions : 1995 Comic Strip Classics

1995-Oct-01 Boca Raton FL

Rube Goldberg Inventions – Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist with an engineering degree. This combination led him to create a series of crazy inventions – in this case an automatic napkin – that amused readers for decades. The panel ran 1914-1964 ©Rube Goldberg Inc

Fairy Tales - Monaco : 1978

1978 - 350th Birth Anniversary of Charles Perrault 

Cinderella - Puss in Boots - Sleeping Beauty

Donkey Skin - Little Red Riding Hood - Blue Beard

Little Thumb - Riquet with the Tuft - Fairies (Diamonds and Toads)

Charles Perrault (1628 – 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé. The best known of his tales include "Little Red Riding Hood", "Cinderella", "Puss in Boots", "Sleeping Beauty", and "Bluebeard".

Some of Perrault's versions of old stories influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later. 

Stamps engraved by Eugene Lacaque after artwork by Pierrette Lambert

Red Riding-Hood - Greetings : 1994 Royal Mail

Red Riding-Hood is featured on one of the 1st class Greetings Messages stamps, released by Royal Mail on 1 February 1994

Marsupilami : 2014 Monaco

2014

Marsupilami is a Belgian comic book character and fictional animal species created by Belgian comic artist André Franquin. Its first appearance was in the 1952-Jan-31 issue of the Franco-Belgian comics magazine Spirou. Since then it appeared regularly in the popular Belgian comics series Spirou & Fantasio, as a pet of the main characters, until Franquin stopped working on the series; the character's final appearance in the series during Franquin's lifetime was in 1970- Wikipedia

Superheroes : 2019 Indonesia

Jagoan Indonesia 2019-Apr-04

Aquanus created by Ancik 1968

Sri Asih created by R.A. Kosasih

Barda Mandrawata (Si Buta Dari Gua Hantu-Blind Man from the Ghost Cave) created by Ganes TH 1967

Children's Books - Romania : 2010

2010-May-05 Romania

Children Books: Little Red riding Hood and Boy and Dragon

Osomatsu-san : 2019 World Stamp Show

2019-Apr-29 World Stamp Show (Jyushimatsu & Todomatsu)

2019-Apr-30 World Stamp show - Asakusa (Choromatsu & Ichimatsu)

2019-May-01 World Stamp Show - Asakusa (Osomatus & Karamatsu)

Eiga no Osomatsu-san x Stamp Show 2019 is a collaboration between Eiga no Osomatsu-san and event World Stamp Festival Stamp Show that features the sextuplets with various stamp and postage goods. The collaboration was created to commemorate the release of the movie and featured stamps, postcards, envelopes, masking tape, drawstring bags, and guidebooks available for sale.

A stamp rally also was held, where by gathering all of the stamps, fans could win a postage set with stamps from overseas. Additionally, if stamps were also collected from the Tokyo Philatelic Museum and the Postal Museum Japan

Yeti - Kyrgyzstan : 2016

2016-May-19

Kyrgyz Post (Kyrgyzstan) There is hardly a person in the world who has never heard the legend of the mountain monster called Yeti. As for Kyrgyzstan, for a long time people from this area have been telling stories about the Kyik-Adam and Zhapali-Adam. And no wonder, because these legendary creatures are believed to have lived and still live right in the mountains of our geographical area (Tian Shan, Pamir, Himalayas). 

Ghosts Stories of Greenland : 2020-2023

2022-May-31

Amu, is a helper spirit. An Amu helps a shaman’s soul leave his body in order to go on a spirit journey to locate malevolent spirits causing harm to the settlement. During this ritual, Amu keeps the audience alive and protects them from other spirits. 

Qarlimaatsoq,  the Ghoul or the Dead One, is creature which has a black face and a desiccated body, and it usually lives in a grave. A person walking by the grave might hear a buzzing sound. Qarlimaatsoq will sometimes lie screaming in the grave during a full moon. When it rises from its burial, it looks like the northern lights. Qarlimaatsoq is a helper spirit for a shaman. 

All the designs on the stamps and the stories behind them are taken from this book, Bestiarium Greenlandica, which was published in 2018 by Milik Publishing. It was edited by Maria Bach Kreutzmann and illustrated by various artists. 

The first-day cancellation for all issues has a drawing of Umiarissat, who are warriors with bushy beards, big hats, and shiny weapons. They disguise themselves as seals, and when they reach shore, they turn into human-like creatures to attack settlements and butcher the people. 

Kukori and Kotkoda : 2021 - Hungary

Magyar Posta is issuing a numbered special souvenir sheet on the theme Cartoon and Fairy Tale Characters using the characters of the cartoon Kukori and Kotkoda, the creation of the writer Ágnes Bálint and the graphic designer and director János Mata. The souvenir sheet designed by the graphic artist István Weisenburger 

Kukori and Kotkoda was the first cartoon series to be commissioned by Hungarian Television, with a total of 26 episodes were made of the cartoon between 1970 and 1972.  The inspiration for the basic idea for the cartoon series came from a colleague of Bálint, who often complained that her husband was unwilling to do any chores around the house. This is how Kukori, the cockerel, was born, whose laziness annoyed Kotkoda, the hen, in every episode. 

Jules Verne - Captain Nemo : 2019 Hungary

 

2019-Apr-05

Magyar Posta - Hungary issued a miniature sheet of 4 stamps with a surcharge in support of youth philately. The subject of these stamps is Jules Verne's Captain Nemo from the novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The stamps were designed by graphic artist Zsolt Vidák, produced by ANY Security Printing Co.

Captain Nemo first appeared in Verne's novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and later in The Mysterious Island (1875). 

Jules Verne - Around the World in 80 Days : 2023 Alderny

2023-

Around the World in Eighty Days is a travel adventure novel by French author Jules Verne (1828-1905), that was published in book form in 1873. Jules Verne is often referred to as being the father of science fiction – his books are full of descriptions of incredible technological advances, many of which have come to fruition since he wrote about them in the 19th Century. He made his mark beyond the world of literature and film, inspiring generation of inventors, explorers and scientists. For over a century, adventurers have followed in the footsteps of Verne’s fictional hero Phileas Fogg by attempting to circumnavigate the globe in record-breaking times. 

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Around the World in 80 Days, the British Channel Island’s Guernsey Post has issued the Alderney stamp set. The stamps were illustrated by Keith Robinson, who has depicted some of the key events from main character Phileas Fogg’s globe-trotting adventure with his French manservant, Passepartout.