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The Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps was issued by the US Postal Service in 1995 to honor the centennial of the newspaper comic strip.The series featured drawings of comic strip characters with their logos. The series was restricted to strips created before 1950.
Strips featured were:
- 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
- Popeyecartoon shorts, with his characteristic corncob pipe and single good eye. Popeye the sailor man is a cartoon figure and comic strip character created by Elzie Crisler Segar in 1929 and syndicated by the Hearst newspaper's King Features Syndicate. He is a
- BlondieThis article is about the comic strip. For other uses see: Blondie. Blondie is a much loved comic strip created by Chic Young that has been syndicated in newspapers since 1930. Originally, the strip centered on Blondie Boopadoop, a carefree flapper girl w
- Dick TracyDick Tracy is a newspaper comic strip created in 1931 by Chester Gould and distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Dick Tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who matched wits with a variety of colorful vi
- Alley OopAlley Oop was a character created in 1932 by American cartoonist V. He was a sturdy citizen of the prehistoric kingdom of Moo who rode a dinosaur, carried a stone axe, dressed in nothing but a pair of fur shorts, and obviously would rather fight dinosaurs
- NancyNancy is an American daily comic strip written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller. The character of Nancy, a precocious, pre-pubescent little girl, originated in the strip Fritzi Ritz about the air-headed flapper title character. This strip was started in 1922
- Flash GordonFlash Gordon is a science fiction comic strip originally drawn by Alex Raymond, first published on January 7, 1934. Although created to compete with Buck Rogers Flash Gordon had much more sophisticated art and outlasted its inspiration. Synopsis The comic
- Li'l AbnerLi'l Abner was a comic strip in United States newspapers, featuring a fictional clan of hillbillies in the town of Dogpatch. Written and drawn by Al Capp, it ran from 1934 through 1977. The comic strip starred Li'l Abner Yokum, the dumb but good-natured h
- Terry and the PiratesTerry and the Pirates is the title of: a comic strip created by Milton Caniff; see: Terry and the Pirates (comic strip) a radio serial, based on the comic strip; see: Terry and the Pirates (radio serial) a television series, also based on the comic strip;
- Prince Valiant
- Brenda Starr
*Comic Strip Classics
Postage stamps