Cartoon and Comic Book Characters

Nice pic, Westy!

I don't know comic book characters that well (other than as a kid growing up in the US in the 1960s), but I like those Canadian characters: Captain Canuck, Johnny Canuck, and my favorite name thus far: Fleur de Lys!

-- Dave

That's a great sheet of classics! I like the background info printed on the backs of the stamps too. Thanks for sharing!

My favorite comics were EC. We'll probably not be seeing anything from the Vault of Horror or Tales From the Crypt on stamps.

Let see the stamps swe32012! Please post some scans.

SG983 2002

Gibraltar
SG994 2001 (font looks like 2007)
Peanuts by Charles Schultz
Mini sheet  140 x 85mm

Exist 5p, 30p,40p,42p,54p   (SG989 >993)  Ebay CV $5.50 minisheet.

Rod: 




This is one of those personalized "official" issues that I was trying to find out more about!  Thanks for posting it!   

If you happen to have a link to any for sale at a lower-than-extortion price, please let me know.    Or if any of you locals see this available at stamp shows, please let me know.  (Perhaps a private message is best for any of this.) 

Thumbs up!

-- Dave

Rod: I'll keep my fingers crossed! Local means you've found it locally, or it's in AUS $? (or both?)

Let me post a couple of other related elusive items (but non-Australian), in case your same sources can supply.

Be right back.

-- Dave

Dave, sourced it locally in Perth, one sheet had been offered, then withdrawn without sale, and another ($20) offered elsewhere, owner said he would hold
for me, (I think both these sheets are owned by the same fellow, he advertised in different places, I am assuming)
Please let me know if you want this sheet $20 australian + postage to US.
Then I can advise him. Unfortunately he is low key, no paypal, I have to pick up in the City.

Now, on to images ...

If I'm correct, I believe Portugal was the first country to issue Peanuts stamps, Oct 6, 2000 -- a set of 6 stamps, plus a souvenir sheet showing the same set of 6. I didn't scan the individual stamps when I had them out (there's selvedge that's odd-looking, but I didn't want to remove, so it would take some photoshopping to take it out of the images), but here's the souvenir sheet:

I think my favorites are the maximum cards:

Cjd: Good point!  

My true Santa Rosa story - once upon a time in the pre-internet days, I was in California when my truck broke down (long story short, cracked injector pre-heat tubes that allowed antifreeze into the fuel, the thing drove like a bucking bronco).  I limped to Sacramento and found a shop to work on it there while I spent three days in a motel.  After a little bit of cabin fever, I rented a car and off we went to San Francisco.  After a nice lunch and a bit of browsing, I decided we'd try Santa Rosa.  I had remembered an article in the Reader's Digest about Charles M. Schulz, and I was pretty sure it had mentioned a Peanuts museum in Santa Rosa.  Good thing it wasn't actually Santa Clara, or Santa Monica, or Santa Whattheheckistan.  Drove up to Santa Rosa, found a phone booth at a gas station and couldn't find any mention in the phone book about a Peanuts museum, but there was a listing for Snoopy's Cards & Gifts or some such place.  The gas station had a map on the wall, so a couple of mental notes later, off we went.  Drove back and forth on the road for a bit but couldn't see anything, but I did see a skating rink.  Took a good guess knowing Snoopy's fondness for Minnesota pond hockey, and there behind a wall of trees was the Snoopy museum!  I bought a Joe Cool sweatshirt and wore it until it was in shreds.  ha ha

Ryan

Jumping on it!

Thanks for the heads-up!