Thread by @jeffs_comics

Imitation is the sincerest form of philately

So, instead of Fun with Flags, let's have Smiles with Stamps

We can start with this page of DC comics stamps (Bet Wolverine is an Enemy Ace fan)

Here's a fun 1995 Canadian stamp of DC comics character, Fleur de Lys

She is from Quebec. Green hair and a sash - rather dashing costume she has there

Want a stamp you don't have to lick to make it cling - why, a Spider-Man stamp will cling to anything!

Here's a classic Marvel Value Stamps (put down those scissors, younger version of myself) and a USPS super hero stamp.

Who is your favorite cigar smoking character?

Its the classic Marvel Comics fight fest - The Hulk vs The Thing

The Ever Lovin' Blue Eyed Idol a' Millions vs the Green Goliath

Its blue pants vs purple pants

The Orange vs The Green

No envelope was ever big enough for these two Big Guns

While Tin Tin and his dog Snowy run to the next adventure in some far off corner of the globe, Archie knows the best adventure is the one right down at Pops in his home town of Riverdale for a shake with three straws

Its the Golden Age comic book

Thrilling Adventures in Stamps!

Each issue was an anthology telling the stories behind stamps of the day.

That is the most jacked cannon crew I've ever seen, and the ripped shirt fireman went on to do covers for Harlequin Romance paperbacks.

The official DC Super Hero Stamp Album

The patriotic font is because its from the Star Spangled year of 1976

Here is the Marvel Comics 1976 Super Hero Stamp Album

These types of products help show the relative popularity of the flagship characters at the time. Spider-Man was the Big Red and Blue Cheese to be sure

Not an X-men to be seen

Here are what the packages for those 1976 stamp paks looked like

Shazam was having a moment in the sun back in 1976, and this month he gets to call down the lightning in pop culture again

Can anyone name all the super villains on that pak?

Here are two DC characters that stand for Truth, Justice, and Correct Postage

Its Batman, the Dark Knight of the Mail Route

Perhaps the most famous stamp in comic book history - the stamp of approval from the Comics Code Authority

DC comics and Archie comics finally broke from the Comics Code in 2011, so its effectively just an artifact of yesteryear now.

Thimble Theaters breakout character, Popeye the Sailor Man, created by Elzie Segar way back in 1929

Popeye may have given us names like Goon (as in Alice the Goon) and Jeep (as in Eugene the Jeep), as well as a theme song

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man (toot toot)

Two similar Captain America poses adorn the USPS stamp and the Marvel Value stamp of Marvel Comics favorite patriotic Avenger.

Notice anything different?

In one stamp, Cap has the shield in his left hand, and in the other, his right hand

Here's some stamps to make you start singing Vince Guaraldi music

A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired in 1965

I never thought it was such a bad little tree
Its not bad at all, really
Maybe it just needs a little love

Gathered together from the cosmic reaches of the universe

Here in this great Envelope of Justice

The most powerful forces of postage ever assembled

Its the Justice Stamps of America

From the Sunday Funnies comes Alley Oop, created way back in 1932

From riding a dinosaur in the prehistoric past from being Spaceman Spiff of Calvin and Hobbies, created in 1985 - a stamp can take your imagination even farther than it takes your letter

It was a dark and stormy night when I went by red car to deliver my response to your latest letter where you asked me to go online and respond to your latest email about the letter where I asked you why you don't write me anymore.

- Vice President of the Bulwer Lytton Fan Club

Dear Mom

On second thought, stamp collecting is too dangerous
I'm going to join the Marines

-Your loving son
Peter

Say Hello To

Johnny Canuck!

The Canadians amongst us can tell us rightly, but he seems to be a National Personification of Canada, and was re-imagined in WWII as a brave Nazi fighter

The Silver and the Gold!

You can use the Power Cosmic
or 41c and one of these stamps

To send your next letter to your Aunt Petunia on Yancy Street

Silver Surfer or Iron Man
The Man of Tech or the Fallen Herald

Back in the Golden Age of Comics in WWII, many comics (and often the super heroes breaking the fourth wall) would urge their readers to buy War Bonds or War Stamps

Remember the comic book itself only cost 10c

In 1995, the USPS issued stamps in honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Comic Strip.

Not to be left out, MAD magazine decided to mock up a few ideas of their own

Did you know they actually had a booklet so you could glue in all those Marvel Value Stamps?

I didn't. I ended up attaching mine to my Trapper Keeper

Using the magic word "Pepsi"

Billy Batson becomes Captain Marvel!

Question:

If Billy gets struck by lightning all the time,
why isn't his name Rod?

A good book should be vell digested

For many decades, two competing versions of the strip co-existed
The Katzenjammer Kids and The Captain and the Kids

The Katzenjammer Kids ran from 1897 to 2006

The Brave
The Bold
and the Woozy

Its Plastic Man and Hawkman

How about these two in a reboot of the Odd Couple

I can tell you which is Felix and which is Oscar

(cue Odd Couple theme song)

One of the most romantic Marvel Value Stamps ever created by the House of Ideas -

Doctor Octopus at Sunset

I hear he gets a little handsy after dark

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