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.

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?

Marvel and DC 1976 Super Hero Stamps Cinderellas

 A friend told me about these today. They appear to be numbered DC 1-6 and Marvel (M) 7-12. Images harvested from Amazon, which doesn't have any of them for sale. 

Ed Sorel's Mary Astor Cinderella stamps

From his new book, Mary Astor's Purple Diary, in which he calls for a set of stamps honoring her.

TFAW Cinderella stamp

 Things From Another World is a cool online comics store - here's a Cinderella stamp in their newsletter this week (I've left the subscription information in case anyone's interested):

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Cartoon illustration of stamps from NY Times

Here's a nice drawing from the March 17, 2010 New York Times by David Gibson, illustrating letters to the editor about US postal service cuts.

1943 Force 'stamps' from Sunday comics section

These types of 'stamps' that you could clip out of the Sunday comics used to be far more common. This is from July 18, 1943.

Courtesy of Merlin Hass.

If RO Blechman designed a stamp...

...it might look like this one on the cover of his new book.

1960s Superman stamps?

Has anyone seen the three Superman stamps that were available by 1968?

Don't remember them? That's because they appeared in Action Comics 359 in "The Case of the People Against Superman!" by Leo Dorfman and Curt Swan.

Thanks to Ofer Berenstein for spotting this and sending it along.

Roz Chast's versions of The Forever Stamp

Roz Chast's versions of The Forever Stamp appeared in the March 30th New Yorker and can be seen online as well.

Cartoonist Mark Doeffinger writes in with cartoon stamp example

Cartoonist Mark Doeffinger writes in:

I just ran across your cartoon philately blog today. You said you were interested in cartoon illustrations such as that of the anthrax stamp (very funny). Well, back in 1985 I had a cartoon stamp in my little self-published book COUPON CLIPPERS. I thought you might like it. Of course back then a regular postage stamp was only $.22. Anyway, shouldn't the American lawn, especially the postage stamp lawn, be commemorated? The lawn may no longer be with us as it is under attack for wasting resources and causing pollution via fertilizer and pesticides. Anyway, I thought you might enjoy the stamp. I am still cartooning via my website: thelitestuffcartoons.com

1951 fundraising stamps by Rowland Emett

Chris Brown wrote to me about Rowland Emett, a British cartoonist, for another project, but when I checked out his website, I found 4 fundraising stamps related to a 1951 Festival of Britain, and the one I've stuck up here on the right actually shows one of the cartoonist's train creations! Three are on this page.

Check out Emett's other drawings too especially the Christmas cards. They're lovely.

Boy, I love the internet.