Comic Strip Classics

1995 commerorative postage stamps

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Commemorative Comic Strip Classics

The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the United States Postal Service on October 1, 1995, to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip.[1] The 20 stamps all are listed in the Scott catalogue as No. 3000 for a pane and 3000a through 3000t for the individual stamps.

Restricted to strips created before 1950, the series featured drawings of comic-strip characters with their logos. The stamps were arranged in five tiers with four stamps to a tier. The featured strips are listed here in the sequence as published:

* The Yellow Kid
* The Katzenjammer Kids
* Little Nemo in Slumberland
* Bringing Up Father
* Krazy Kat
* Rube Goldberg’s Inventions
* Toonerville Folks
* Gasoline Alley
* Barney Google
* Little Orphan Annie
* Popeye
* Blondie
* Dick Tracy
* Alley Oop
* Nancy
* Flash Gordon
* Li'l Abner
* Terry and the Pirates
* Prince Valiant
* Brenda Starr, Reporter

## References

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1. ^ Walker, Mort. Mort Walker's Private Scrapbook : celebrating a life of love and laughter. Kansas City: Andrews McNeel, 2000. ISBN 9780740711268 (p.256).

## External links

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* Stamp Sheet

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Dick Tracy

Created by: Chester Gould

Contributors|

* Max Allan Collins
* Mike Curtis
* Rick Fletcher
* Alfred J. Gross
* Michael Kilian
* Dick Locher
* Joe Staton

Characters|

* Dick Tracy
* Tess Trueheart
* Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice
* Flattop
* Breathless Mahoney
* Joe Jitsu
* Moon Maid
* Pruneface
* Villain debuts

Film serials|

* Dick Tracy (1937)
* Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
* Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
* Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc. (1941)

Feature films|

* Dick Tracy (1945)
* Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)
* Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
* Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
* Dick Tracy (1990)

Television series|

* Dick Tracy (1950-51)
* The Dick Tracy Show (1961-62)
* Dick Tracy (Unsold TV Pilot) (1966-67)
* Archie's TV Funnies (1971-73)

Other media|

* Dick Tracy (radio series)
* Dick Tracy (soundtrack)
* I'm Breathless ("Vogue"
* "Hanky Panky"
* "Sooner or Later")
* Dick Tracy (video game)
* The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy (book collection of the comic strip)

Related articles|

* Tribune Content Agency
* Moses Yellowhorse
* Fearless Fosdick
* "Dick Tracy in B Flat"
* Little Orphan Annie
* The Great Piggy Bank Robbery

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Flash Gordon

Created by Alex Raymond

Supporting characters|

* Dale Arden
* Hans Zarkov
* Ming the Merciless
* Princess Aura
* Prince Barin
* Prince Thun
* Prince Vultan

Locations|

* Mongo

Movie serials|

* Flash Gordon (1936)
* Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
* Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)

Film|

* Flash Gordon (1980)
* Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1982; TV film)

Television series|

| Live-action|

* Flash Gordon (1954–1955)
* Flash Gordon (2007–2008)

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Animated|

* The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (1979–1982)
* Defenders of the Earth (1986–1987)
* Flash Gordon (1996–1997)

Games|

* Flash Gordon (pinball)
* Flash Gordon (video game)
* Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo

Other media|

* List of Flash Gordon comic strips
* Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
* Flash Gordon (film soundtrack)
* "Flash" (Queen song)
* Flash Gordon Classic
* Life After Flash

Related articles|

* Flesh Gordon
* Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders
* Jungle Jim
* King Features Syndicate
* Mac Raboy
* Al Williamson

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Al Capp's Li'l Abner

Characters and elements|

* Dogpatch
* Joe Btfsplk
* Fearless Fosdick
* Lower Slobbovia
* Sadie Hawkins Day
* Salomey
* Shmoo

Adaptations and spin-offs|

* Dogpatch USA
* 1940 film
* 1959 film
* The Flintstone Comedy Show
* Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo
* Kickapoo Joy Juice
* Shelly Manne album
* Musical
* Sadie Hawkins dance
* Skunkworks project
* The New Shmoo

Related articles|

* Li'l Abner: The Complete Dailies & Color Sundays (reprint book collection)
* Abbie an' Slats
* Elliot Caplin
* Comic Strip Classics
* double-whammy
* Frank Frazetta
* Long Sam
* Bob Lubbers
* -nik
* Shmoo plot
* Toby Press
* Basil Wolverton

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Annie

Comic strip|

* Little Orphan Annie (1924–2010)
* Dick Tracy (2013–present)

Radio|

* Little Orphan Annie (1930)

Musicals|

* Annie (1977)
* Annie Warbucks (1993)

Films|

* Little Orphan Annie (1932)
* Little Orphan Annie (1938)
* Annie (1982)
* Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995)
* Annie (1999)
* Life After Tomorrow (2006)
* Annie (2014)
* Annie Live! (2021)

Albums|

* Annie (1977 original Broadway cast recording)
* Annie (1999 soundtrack)
* Annie (2014 soundtrack)

Songs|

* "It's the Hard Knock Life"
* "Tomorrow"
* "Little Girls"
* "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile"

Related|

* Daddy Warbucks
* Harold Gray
* The Complete Little Orphan Annie (2008–present)
* "Little Orphant Annie" (1885 poem)

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Winsor McCay

Comic strips|

* Little Sammy Sneeze (1904)
* Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904)
* Little Nemo (1905)

Films|

* Little Nemo (1911)
* How a Mosquito Operates (1912)
* Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
* The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918)

Adaptations|

* Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (film)
* Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (film)
* Slumberland (film)
* Nemo (arcade game)
* Little Nemo: The Dream Master (video game)

Related|

* Bob McCay (son)

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Popeye created by E. C. Segar

Characters|

| Main|

* Popeye
* Bluto
* Olive Oyl
* Wimpy
* Swee'Pea

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Supporting|

* Alice the Goon
* Eugene the Jeep
* George W. Geezil
* Harold Hamgravy
* Castor Oyl
* Poopdeck Pappy
* Sea Hag

Authors and artists|

* E. C. Segar
* Max Fleischer
* Dave Fleischer
* Hy Eisman
* Seymour Kneitel
* Roger Langridge
* Bobby London
* R. K. Milholland
* Bruce Ozella
* Bill Pearson
* Bud Sagendorf
* George Wildman
* Doc Winner
* Bela Zaboly

Theatrical shorts|

| Fleischer Studios|

* Popeye the Sailor
* I Yam What I Yam
* Blow Me Down!
* Seasin's Greetinks!
* Wild Elephinks
* Let's You and Him Fight
* Little Swee'Pea
* Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
* The Paneless Window Washer
* Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
* A Date to Skate
* Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
* Ghosks Is the Bunk

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Famous Studios|

* You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
* Scrap the Japs
* Me Musical Nephews
* Spinach Fer Britain
* Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue
* Pop-Pie a la Mode
* Olive Oyl for President
* Ancient Fistory
* Popeye, the Ace of Space
* Fright to the Finish
* Spooky Swabs

Feature films|

| Official|

* Popeye

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Public domain|

* Popeye's Revenge
* Popeye the Slayer Man
* Shiver Me Timbers

Television shows|

* Popeye the Sailor
* The All New Popeye Hour
* Popeye and Son
* The Popeye Show

TV specials|

* Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
* Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy

Video games|

* Arcade game
* Popeye no Eigo Asobi
* Popeye (Game Boy)
* Popeye 2
* Ijiwaru Majo Seahag no Maki
* Beach Volleyball
* Rush for Spinach

Other|

* Popeye the Sailor (radio series)
* Popeye Song Folio
* Popeye Village
* Popeye & Bluto's Bilge-Rat Barges
* Popeye Saves the Earth

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Prince Valiant

Created by Hal Foster

Artists|

* John Cullen Murphy
* Gary Gianni
* Thomas Yeates

Characters|

* King Arthur
* Prince Valiant
* Sir Gawain

Film and TV|

* 1954 film
* 1991 TV series
* episodes
* 1997 film

Related articles|

* Prince Valiant (Fantagraphics Books collection)
* Prince Valiant: The Story-Telling Game
* Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter

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Philately of the United States

Pre-stamp|

* Thomas Neale
* Henry Thomas Windsor

| Provisional
stamps|

* Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional
* United States postmasters provisional stamps
* New York Postmaster's Provisional
* St. Louis Bears

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19th century|

* 1869 Pictorial Issue
* Black Jack
* Columbian Issue
* Hawaiian Missionaries
* Lost Continental
* Trans-Mississippi Issue
* Western Cattle in Storm
* Z Grill

20th century|

* All Aboard! 20th Century American Trains
* Americana series
* Antarctic Treaty issue
* Bicentennial Series
* Breast cancer research stamp
* Celebrate the Century
* Comic Strip Classics
* Elvis Presley single
* Federal Duck Stamp
* Five cents John Kennedy
* Fourth Bureau issue
* Great Americans series
* Hanukkah stamps
* Liberty Issue
* Norse-American Centennial
* Oklahoma Statehood Stamps
* Overrun Countries series
* Presidential Issue
* Prominent Americans series
* Series of 1902
* Special handling stamps
* Transportation coils
* U.S. Parcel Post stamps of 1912–13
* US Regular Issues of 1922–1931
* War savings stamps
* Washington Bicentennial stamps of 1932
* Washington–Franklin Issues

21st century|

* Distinguished Americans series
* Elvis Presley Forever stamp
* Nature of America
* Raising the Flag at Ground Zero
* Statue of Liberty Forever stamp
* 2017 Total Solar Eclipse stamp

Airmails|

* 1918 Curtiss Jenny airmail stamps
* 1930 Graf Zeppelin stamps
* Inverted Jenny
* List of United States airmail stamps

EFOs|

* CIA invert
* Dag Hammarskjöld invert
* Inverted Jenny
* Nixon invert
* Pan-American invert

Topicals|

* Artworks on stamps of the United States
* Commemoration of the American Civil War on postage stamps
* History of Virginia on stamps
* List of people on the postage stamps of the United States
* Postage stamps and postal history of the Confederate States
* Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps
* Puerto Rico on stamps
* Territories of the United States on stamps
* U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps
* Women on US stamps

| Postmarks|

* Earliest reported postmark
* Fancy cancel

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Collections and museums|

* Benjamin Miller Collection
* Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum
* Florida Postal Museum
* National Philatelic Museum
* National Postal Museum

Miscellaneous|

* Air Mail Act of 1925
* Air Mail scandal
* Apollo 15 postage stamp incident
* Barefoot mailman
* Boat Railway Post Office
* Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee
* Express mail in the United States
* History of United States postage rates
* Mail jumping
* Pneumatic tube mail in New York City
* Postal history of Oregon
* Railway Mail Service
* Rural Free Delivery
* Star routes
* U.S. Special Delivery

Postal services|

* American Letter Mail Company
* Butterfield Overland Mail
* Pony Express
* San Antonio–San Diego Mail Line
* United States Post Office Department
* United States Postal Service

Publications|

* The American Philatelist
* Higgins & Gage World Postal Stationery Catalog
* Linn's Stamp News
* Minkus catalogue
* Scott catalogue

Stamp
production|

| Designers|

* American stamp designers

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Companies|

* American Bank Note Company
* Bureau of Engraving and Printing
* Homer Lee Bank Note Company

Organizations|

* American Air Mail Society
* American Philatelic Research Library
* American Philatelic Society
* Rocky Mountain Philatelic Library
* United Postal Stationery Society
* U.S. Philatelic Classics Society
* United States Stamp Society

Related|

* American philatelists
* American postmasters
* Postal Service Act
* Postal Reorganization Act
* Revenue stamps of the United States
* United States postal notes
* United States Postmaster General
* United States Post Offices

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