Aquaman featured on US Postage Stamps!!!

Have a look!


If anyone sends me love letters in the mail using one of these stamps as postage, I will marry that person no matter how horribly written, or how perverse, or how banal the message is.
Simply put: DC superhero stamps = TLF!

These stamps are coming out next year in 2006 (note: the price increase to 39¢).

The top image of Aquaman jumping out of the sea was drawn by the late Jim Aparo (most notably know as being the artist on Batman), who pencilled the Aquaman series in the late 60's and Aquaman's lead feature in Adventure Comics during the 1970's. I actually have a vintage poster of this same image framed somewhere in storage. I love it.

The bottom two rows of stamps are images of actual comic-book covers these charcacters appeared in. The Aquaman one is from the fifth and final issue of his 1989 mini-series. Great artwork by supreme Superman artist Curt Swan who handled the pencilling chores for this particular series. I learned to appreciate Swan's artwork with this series. His characters were beautifully drawn. Unfortunately, I thought the plot was rather weak (especially, when Aquaman's wife Mera goes crazy and she tries to kill him, he ends up accidentally impaling her, then she "comes back" to life, and leaves him and this dimension supposedly forever - whew!). Aquaman has had a rough life. So it's good he's getting a stamp to commemorate everything he's done for us and the fish of the world.