The grisly fate of the Hungarian revolutionary must have shocked a few innocent youngsters back in the day!
In there anything remotely comparable available to today's boys and girls which might encourage them in an interest in stamps, or in history? The 'factual' comic strip seemed to die out as a narrative medium for children some time in the 1960s. Perhaps television took over as a universal medium. Perhaps the rise in children's disposable income highlighted the lack of real profit to be made out of stamp-collecting.
Today trading cards enjoy the same sort of popularity that stamps did in the 1950s. Their production can be more tightly controlled, their profit margins are presumably large, and they can be marketed and re-marketed every few years. I suppose there are those for whom stamps are much the same as trading-cards - small, coloured paper-based items for accumulation, exchange and valuation - but Monty Wedd and the producers of "Thrilling Adventures" knew better than that.
"Is there anything remotely comparable available to today's boys and girls which might encourage them in an interest in stamps, or in history? The 'factual' comic strip seemed to die out as a narrative medium for children some time in the 1960s."
Er, yes, Ningpo, I do believe it would!
I've not yet seen these stamps in real size, impressive thought they look when magnified. I rather hope they are legible. They are certainly an imaginative design concept.
That's a cool set, but I bet it will appeal to baby boomers much more than young people!
Roy
I love any stamps that illustrate History or Geography.
I think this one definitely makes that grade.
I agree--well done!
While doing further research, and continuing to be amazed at what I am finding concerning Monty Wedd and his philatelic artwork as discussed here:
http://stamporama.com/discboard/disc_main.php?action=20&id=10779#77071,
I was stunned to find a set of comic books published in the 1950s in which the stories were built around stamps. I say "stunned" because as a kid I collected both stamps and comics and never knew these existed... The title is "Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics," and it appears to have been short lived at 8 or 9 issues. Each story starts off with (or ends with) a picture of a stamp, while the comics tell the story in kind of a "Classics Illustrated" style. You can see all of the issues, page by page, here:
http://comicbookplus.com/?cid=1485
Enjoy!
-Steve
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
The grisly fate of the Hungarian revolutionary must have shocked a few innocent youngsters back in the day!
In there anything remotely comparable available to today's boys and girls which might encourage them in an interest in stamps, or in history? The 'factual' comic strip seemed to die out as a narrative medium for children some time in the 1960s. Perhaps television took over as a universal medium. Perhaps the rise in children's disposable income highlighted the lack of real profit to be made out of stamp-collecting.
Today trading cards enjoy the same sort of popularity that stamps did in the 1950s. Their production can be more tightly controlled, their profit margins are presumably large, and they can be marketed and re-marketed every few years. I suppose there are those for whom stamps are much the same as trading-cards - small, coloured paper-based items for accumulation, exchange and valuation - but Monty Wedd and the producers of "Thrilling Adventures" knew better than that.
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
"Is there anything remotely comparable available to today's boys and girls which might encourage them in an interest in stamps, or in history? The 'factual' comic strip seemed to die out as a narrative medium for children some time in the 1960s."
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
Er, yes, Ningpo, I do believe it would!
I've not yet seen these stamps in real size, impressive thought they look when magnified. I rather hope they are legible. They are certainly an imaginative design concept.
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
That's a cool set, but I bet it will appeal to baby boomers much more than young people!
Roy
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
I love any stamps that illustrate History or Geography.
I think this one definitely makes that grade.
re: Thrilling Adventures in Stamps Comics
I agree--well done!