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Comics Issue date: Tuesday 20 March 2012 fırst Introducing our characterful tribute to some of the great British of the last 75 years.

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Royal Mail, the Cruciform and the colour red are registered trade marks of Royal Mail Group Ltd. first © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2012. All rights reserved. If undelivered please return to Royal Mail, Tallents House, 21 South Gyle Crescent, EDINBURGH, Scotland EH12 9PB. Issue Comics Drawing on 75 years of great characters Design First Day Cover Buy now! The Chase Stamps Comics have been with us since Victorian times. We commissioned research to work out what the most First Day Covers Stamp format/size However, it was the launch of our longest-running influential and popular comics and comic characters only available until Square Price Inland £6.00 35mm x 35mm comic, , in 1937, that began the heyday of the last 75 years are, enabling us to create ten First Price Overseas £5.00 of British comics. In fact, there can be few amongst Class Special Stamps featuring not just our greatest Printer Code AF354 20 March Cartor Security Printing us who haven’t chortled over the adventures of characters, but also their most memorable publications. This playful First Day Don’t miss out. This Print process , the world’s strongest man. date cannot be extended. Cover features the Lithography As this is such a fascinating and popular subject, we Special Stamps and Perforation Yet The Dandy is just one of the comics that have are also delighted to offer a First Day Cover and a includes a filler card 14.5 x 14.5 thrilled, entertained and amused the nation’s children Presentation Pack looking at the and artistry of looking at each of the Standard Royal Mail Phosphor for decades. There are also a host of other inspirational this popular subject, through a wealth of illustrations comics, written by postmark All over comics and characters that deserve to be celebrated. and reproductions. Graham Kebble-White. Gum It can be cancelled with Your address will PVA your choice of a Tallents be printed here Number per sheet House postmark, or a 25/50 Dundee postmark; chosen as it is the home was a weekly comic THE TOPPER FIRST ISSUE: 11 SEPTEMBER 1954 Acknowledgements was launched FINAL ISSUE: 30 MARCH 1985 for boys whose opening issue Mint Stamps in 1953, sporting the dungarees- NUMBER OF ISSUES: 1555 (MERGED WITH came with two free gifts. The star of D.C. Thompson Ltd, wearing on THE RELAUNCHED ‘’) PUBLISHER: was a little-sister title THE DANDY of Valiant was Captain Hurricane, The Dandy, , , Britain’s longest- the front cover. Beryl the Peril // who, having been torpedoed by to and . From 1968, running comic, was first issued in later became the comic’s stand- IPC MAGAZINES LTD MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: a U-boat, waged a one-man on each issue was introduced by publisher of both The December 1937 and came with out character, artist Davey Law , SKID SOLO, BILLY ‘BILLY’S Twinkle herself and relayed an The Topper, Bunty, BOOTS’ DANE, JOHNNY COUGAR . Other larger-than-life a free ‘express whistler’. Korky the basing her expressions on the characters included Victorian incident in brief verse. For example: Price £4.60 Cat capered about on the front Dandy and The Beano. faces that his daughter pulled was billed as ‘The Sport escape artist Janus Stark and “I went into the park today, a new hat Twinkle and associated cover, while inside lay the comic’s when she threw a tantrum. and Adventure Picture Story the indestructible Tim Kelly. on my head. I stopped to have a little real star – cowboy and “toughest drink, but sprayed my hat instead!” 7 FEBRUARY 1953 Weekly’. First issued in 1954, Code AS770 of the tough” Desperate Dan, FIRST ISSUE: FIRST ISSUE: 6 OCTOBER 1962 15 SEPTEMBER 1990 Tiger introduced readers to The inside pages featured a mix of FINAL ISSUE: FINAL ISSUE: 16 OCTOBER 1976 characters used herein whose lantern jaw was reportedly 1963 (MERGED comic strips, puzzle and cut-out NUMBER OF ISSUES: football legend Roy Race, (MERGED WITH ‘’) NUMBER OF WITH ‘’) based on that of the comic’s then the star striker at Melchester ISSUES: 730 PUBLISHER: FLEETWAY ‘Dainty Dollies’. A Twinkle annual editor, Albert Barnes. PUBLISHER: DC THOMSON Rovers, as well as racing-car PUBLICATIONS/IPC MAGAZINES LTD was issued each year. © DC Thomson & Co Ltd MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: FIRST ISSUE: 4 DECEMBER 1937 with Skid Solo MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: BERYL THE PERIL, MICKEY CAPTAIN HURRICANE, FIRST ISSUE: 27 JANUARY 1968 FINAL ISSUE: ONGOING and wrestling with THE MONKEY, FIGARO RAVEN ON THE WING, FINAL ISSUE: 5 1999 Two great strips NUMBER OF ISSUES: >3500 2012; Eagle comic and Johnny Cougar. , TIM KELLY, JANUS STARK NUMBER OF ISSUES: 1637 PUBLISHER: DC THOMSON MEMORABLE Alternative postmark PUBLISHER: DC THOMSON CHARACTERS: DESPERATE DAN, KORKY MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: TWINKLE, THE CAT, , CORPORAL Brought to you in NURSE NANCY, JENNY WREN, MY BABY character CLOTT, BRASSNECK BROTHER, MOLLY AND HER DOLLIES reproduced with kind perfect condition as two absorbed 12 other weekly comics since its arrival in 2000 AD permission of the Dan BUNTY se-tenent strips, the 1960. As well as that of its title was known as the “snappy picture- was launched character, seminal strips included for girls”. Launched in 1958, in 1977 at a time Dare Corporation Limited; Spider-Man homage ‘The Leopard it traded in tales of waifs suffering at the hands when interest in science Mint Stamps are the THE BEANO from Lime Street’ and the fiscally of a cruel guardian before finding salvation. fiction was high. It broke was launched in Thus the stories of Second-Hand Sue, street 1938 with a free ‘whoopee mask’. fraught ‘Ivor Lott and Tony Broke’. boundaries by crediting its comic-strip Roy of the Rovers EAGLE was a wholesome counterblast urchin Winnie Johnson (in ‘Maid to be a Lady’), Its first cover star was comical 28 MAY 1960 creators and spearheading a more literate ideal way in which to to the comics arriving from the USA in FIRST ISSUE: enslaved orphan Jenny Lane (‘Ballerina on style of storytelling. 2000 AD’s original ostrich Big Eggo, but its most FINAL ISSUE: 4 JANUARY 2000 a String’) et al delighted readers. But the main character, Buster comic the 1950s. Readers were introduced to famous personality didn’t make NUMBER OF ISSUES: APPROX. 1906 USP was a new series of Dan Dare Captain Pugwash, amazing double-page (‘BUSTER’ DIDN’T DISPLAY ISSUE draw was ‘The Four Marys’, a group of four adventures, but it was from issue (or ‘prog’) his debut till 1951. Shaggy of girls who shared the same enjoy these timeless cut-outs of locomotives and , hair and with a nose for trouble, NUMBERS) PUBLISHER: FLEETWAY two, and the arrival of zero-tolerance PUBLICATIONS/IPC MAGAZINES LTD first name and attended and character © Egmont white as well as the space adventures of ‘Dan Dennis the Menace proved future-cop , that it found Dare – Pilot of the Future’. MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: BUSTER, the same school. comics and characters. a sensation. Joined by pet pooch THE LEOPARD FROM LIME STREET, its real star. UK Ltd; Tiger comic, FIRST ISSUE: 14 APRIL 1950 FINAL ISSUE: in 1968, they have been IVOR LOTT AND TONY BROKE FIRST ISSUE: 18 JANUARY 1958 FIRST ISSUE: 26 FEBRUARY 1977 26 APRIL 1969 (REVIVED 1982-93) NUMBER on the front page since 1974. FINAL ISSUE: 17 FEBRUARY 2001 FINAL ISSUE: ONGOING mixed OF ISSUES: 991 (MERGED WITH ‘’) NUMBER OF ISSUES: 2249 >1750 IPC NUMBER OF ISSUES: PUBLISHER: PUBLISHER: HULTON PRESS LTD/LONGACRE FIRST ISSUE: 30 JULY 1938 FINAL ISSUE: ONGOING PUBLISHER: DC THOMSON MAGAZINES LTD/FLEETWAY PUBLICATIONS/ Valiant comic and The PRESS/OLDHAMS PRESS LTD/IPC MAGAZINES NUMBER OF ISSUES: >3500 PUBLISHER: DC THOMSON MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: EGMONT FLEETWAY LTD/REBELLION LTD MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: DAN DARE, MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: DENNIS THE MENACE, BUNTY, THE FOUR MARYS, MEMORABLE CHARACTERS: JUDGE DREDD, source THE MEKON, CAPTAIN PUGWASH, HARRIS BIG EGGO, THE BASH STREET KIDS, MINNIE THE MINX, SECOND-HAND SUE, MARGIE NEMESIS THE WARLOCK, THARG THE MIGHTY, Steel Claw character © TWEED, PC 49 LORD SNOOTY, , THE SWIMMING MARVEL , NIKOLAI DANTE

Number of stamps ten Date of issue 20 March 2012 Design The Chase Acknowledgements The Dandy, The Beano, The Topper, Bunty, Twinkle and associated characters used herein © DC Thomson & Co Ltd 2012; Eagle comic and Dan Dare character reproduced with kind IPC Media 2012; Judge permission of the Dan Dare Corporation Limited; Roy of the Rovers character, Buster comic and character © Egmont UK Ltd; Tiger comic, Valiant comic and The Steel Claw character © IPC Media 2012; Judge Dredd & 2000 AD ® & ™ Rebellion A/S Printer Cartor Security Printing, Meaucé, fsc logo Process lithography Format square Size 35mm x 35mm Perforations 14.5 x 14.5 Number per sheet 25/50 Phosphor all over Gum PVA Stamp designs © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2012 Cover design The Chase Words Graham Kibble-White Acknowledgements comic images copyright as per stamps, except for Captain Hurricane © IPC Media 2012; free gift images displayed on envelope courtesy of phil-comics auctions Cover design © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2012 Further details about British postage stamps and philatelic facilities may be obtained from: Royal Dredd & 2000 AD ® & Mail, FREEPOST, Edinburgh EH12 9PE or visit our website: www.royalmail.com/stamps. Royal Mail and the Cruciform are registered Trade Marks of Royal Mail Group Ltd © Royal Mail Group Ltd 2012. All rights reserved. TM Rebellion A/S.

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Presentation Pack Price £25.00 Code N3019 Price £5.10 Code AP359 Frame by frame The Comics Stamps Character studies look just as superb Featuring all ten First when brought together Class Comics Stamps, in this attractive frame. the colourful Presentation A charming way to Pack includes a wealth Stamp Cards add a little retro style to of wonderful illustrations any room. Dimensions: and a fabulous miniature Price £4.50 32cm x 18.5cm. reproduction of 12 pages Code AQ181 from the first ever edition of The Dandy in 1937. It Larger than life also offers fascinating characters facts from renowned Featuring some of the expert on popular culture most popular comics — Graham Kibble-White. and characters in British culture, the Special Stamps are even more of a delight when reproduced at postcard size.

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