SpongeBob SquarePants stamps coming sometime this year

SpongeBob SquarePants Date & Site TBD | PSA pane of 16 stamps Click to see full pane. SpongeBob SquarePants is an American animated television series created by marine science educator and animator Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon. Each episode chronicles the adventures of the perpetually optimistic and generous main character SpongeBob SquarePants and his aquatic friends in the underwater city of Bikini Bottom. Only a month after its TV premiere in 1999, the show became the highest-rated and most viewed animated Saturday morning program that year, beating Pokemon. Its popularity made it a multimedia franchise and the highest rated Nickelodeon series. SpongeBob SquarePants has won a variety of awards including six Annie Awards, eight Golden Reel Awards, four Emmy Awards, two BAFTA Children's Awards, and a record-breaking twenty-one Kids' Choice Awards. A Broadway musical based on the series opened in 2017 to critical acclaim.

U.S. Stamp Design: Infamous American Felons by Daniel Boris

I have in the past printed out similar cartoons and used them to mail an empty envelope to myself.

Peanuts stamp designer interviewed

 https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/11/meet-antonio-alcala-usps-stamp-designer.html

Combat Insignia / War Insignia albums for World War II Disney unit stamps

These were done by Disney cartoonists, and other animation studios, and at least 201 were printed. There's information from Douglas H. Henkle about the first 5 volumes (#s 1-201) at https://www.folklib.net/fdc/wwii-combat-insignia.shtml and https://www.folklib.net/fdc/wwii-combat-insignia2.shtml and for the mysterious volume 6 which apparently had 200, most of which were not repeats of the first 200. Also, he's found horizontal and vertical versions of the stamps.

 

Box cover

 

One thing Mr. Henkle may have missed is that the first 4 albums were also sold as a boxed set. I recently bought one on e-Bay. I've emailed him my photos.

Just the thing to round out your cartoon stamps collection - Mail Carrier Ziggy

A recent flea market find.

 

Marvel Value Stamps: A Visual History (2023) book

 I had meant to write something about the actual book, never got around to it, and so never mentioned that the book by Roy Thomas exists. 

There was a calendar in 2024 ...

and a new one for 2025. The cover is exactly the same art, but with a different color. I'll bet it's just an updated version of last year's.

and did I ever mention this 2017 giveaway folder?

Comic Strip Classics 1995 stamp album by Mort Walker featuring Beetle Bailey

 A friend of mine bought this in an auction and sent it to me. I'd never seen it before. It's published by Fleetwood in a black pleather folder.