[News] 2020 in Review, Outlook of 2021 and the News of December

2020 will soon end and although I just started this blog in March, it is time to look back at this year. 

On the page above I tried to list all new issues about childhood heroes from 2020. According to my list 27 countries issued more than 200 of these stamps in 41 issues. Of these 41 issues I have currently collected 18 (one is incomplete and one other is on its way), but as I am only interested in 20 of them, I can be quite happy. Among the featured childhood heroes were many that had already appeared on other stamps before 2020, but the year also saw some first philatelic appearances. The Calabash Brothers, Tatu and Patu, the Raving Rabbids, Loreley, Wickie, Knerten, Cyborg (DC) and the Soaper 5 were among these. 

On my stamp blog I choose every year my twenty favourite stamps and like usual some childhood hero stamps were among them: 

1. Sesame Street (Germany) 

4. Childhood Heroes (Germany) 

8. The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats (Germany) 

11. Soaper 5 (Singapore) 

13. Raving Rabbids (France) 

14. Pied Piper of Hamelin (Germany) 

15. #oursea (Finland) 

17. 80 years Bugs Bunny (USA) 

You can see the complete list here.

For 2021 nine countries already announced 15 issues about Childhood Heroes on Stamps and I am sure that many more will follow in the course of the year. For example the issue programme of the United Kingdom has not been yet published, the USA always adds some stamps later on and there are so many more countries from which I have seen no programmes yet. Of the already announced issues I am especially looking forward to the Strong Women in Comics from Belgium, The Little Prince and Jean de la Fontaine from France, Mother Hulda and Die Sendung mit der Maus from Germany and Mafalda from Italy. The complete list you can find above. If you know of any other issue please post a comment.

Newly issued this month were the new Helden der Kindheit (Maya the Bee and Wickie) and the Pied Piper of Hamelin from Germany and a single stamp from Ukraine about the cartoon Cossacks. Ukraine also issued a stamp about Mavka - The Forest Song on 30th November, which I first saw in early December. While I am not interested in the Mavka stamp, I still look for the Cossacks.

During this last month of 2020 I added many stamps to my collection. These include the new issues from Germany mint and on postcards as well as the Raving Rabbids in mint condition and some wonderful stamps from Belgium. For the latter check out the label. Also I got the rest of the DC Comic stamps from the USA on covers and most of the US Harry Potter stamps. 

Wishing all readers here A Happy New Year!