Poland: Thorgal (2022)

[Appendix] Japan: Bear's School (2022)

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[News] News of November

 Another month is over, so here are some News:

• As shown on the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion blog (#2196), New Zealand issued another philatelic item using this year's Lord of the Rings stamps. It is a souvenir sheet for a philatelic exhibition in conjunction with the Centenary of the Wellington Philatelic Society and uses the $4.30 and $4.50 designs from the set.
• Japan starts 2023 right with a sheet about the Peanuts. Issue date is the 11th January and there are all together ten stamps in this issue.
• A stamp about the Birth Centenary of Angela Giussani was issued in Italy on 10th November. It shows her together with her famous creation, Diabolik.
• The German stamp programme is here and while the themes are known for a year, there are now more information about some of the series. The stamps about the Childhood Heroes will show Pinocchio and Käpt'n Blaubär, while the Superheroes will be Captain Marvel and Iron Man. Those latter two I actually guessed correctly. They follow the same pattern as this year, one has its 60th anniversary (Spider-Man now, Iron Man next year) and the other is featured in a current MCU movie (Black Panther and Captain Marvel). No news are available for the Famous Video Games. You can find the complete list with all issue dates in the page above.
• On 12th January Sweden will issue a set of ten about the 50th anniversary of the pink elephant from the cartoon "Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter" (Five ants are more than four elephants).

The New Issues of November were the Christmas Pantomimes from Alderney and Guernsey, Angela Giussani from Italy and Lego from Switzerland.

To my own collection I added the Aardman FDC from the United Kingdom and the Donald Duck sheet from the Netherlands. Also I finally got the Naruto stamp from France on a card, which is still not available on WOPA. The Swiss Lego stamps are still travelling. 

SWitzerland: 90 years Lego (2022)

FDC:

"Faltblatt":

[News] News of September and October

Here are the collected News of the last two months, although most of these are actually from October:

• The Isle of Man Post issued on 12th September a set of eight stamps called David Bowie: Actor. One of them shows him as Jareth, The Goblin King, in the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth. I have still not decided whether I want to add this set to my collection. I think it is a pity that they decided to show only head shots on the stamps.
• Images of the British Aardman stamps, which are already issued and which I really got, can be now found on the Internet. It is a set of eight stamps plus a souvenir sheet of four. 
• The sixth entry in the Japanese series The World of Children's Picture Books, a sheet of ten self-adhesive stamps, shows Bear's School written by Hiroyuki Aihara and illustrated by Nami Adachi. Issue date is the 6th December. 
• Unlike earlier reported the Dutch Kinderpostzegels with Donald Duck were not issued in September, but just on 10th October. 
• The Christmas stamps of Guernsey Post will show pantomimes of Robin Hood (Alderney) and Sleeping Beauty (Guernsey). According to the Commonwealth Stamps Opinion (post 2179) these will most likely be the first stamps with the new royal cypher of King Charles III in the World after the recent passing of the Queen. The issue date will be the 16th November. 
• The Polish Thorgal issue was postponed from October to December. 
• On 29th October Malta Post released a set about the 10th anniversary of the Malta Comic Convention featuring three local comics, "a departure from the more traditional choice of theme" as they write on their website. 
• For Philately Day a souvenir sheet of three stamps was issued in Italy on 28th October. It shows the cartoon characters Armadillo, Lady Cocca and Zerocalcare created by Michele Rech. 
• The next issue plans for 2023 are here. While Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Liechtenstein and Macau do not plan any thematic stamps, Czechia will issue a booklet about Poppy Doll and Butterfly Emanuel and Hungary will continue the series about Fairy Tale and Cartoon Heroes. The incomplete programmes from Finland, Hong Kong and the USA also do not include any issues about childhood heroes, the USA at least however usually adds one/some in the course of the year. 
• Unfortunately the French Naruto is still not available on WOPA.

The New Stamps of September and October were Lego from Austria, the Black Cat Detective from China, Moomins from Finland, Naruto from France, Pumuckl, the Smurfs and Black Panther from Germany, Mazsola és Tádé from Hungary, Goblin King Jareth from the Isle of Man, Philately Day from Italy, Malta Comic Convention from Malta, Donald Duck from the Netherlands, Lord of the Rings from New Zealand and Portugal, Transformers and Aardman Classics from the United Kingdom and the Peanuts from the USA. Busy months for sure!

To my own collection I have added the new issues from Austria, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Portugal and the United Kingdom, the Aardman stamps and Black Panther are however not yet updated here on the blog. 

United Kingdom: Aardman Classics (2022)

FDC: 

Netherlands: Donald Duck (2022)

France: Naruto (2022)

Used on a Card:

Germany: Black Panther (2022)

Used on matching Cards with Special Postmarks:

Used on a Cover with Special Postmark [Spider-Man is actually not allowed to have the Black Panther postmark]:

Austria: 90 Years Lego (2022)

On a matching Card with Special Postmark:

Finland: Moomin ABC (2022)

Not needed in mint condition.

FDC:

New Zealand: The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers 20th Anniversary (2022)

[News] News of August

 Here are the News of August and the first days of September:

• The Lord of the Rings set from New Zealand finally has a new release date, which will be the 7th September. Like for last year's set there will be six stamps issued both as single stamps and in souvenir sheets. In the meantime the Portuguese set was issued according to plan on 2nd September. There are four stamps in it plus an additional souvenir sheet. 
• The Slovak Post revealed its stamp programme for 2023 and there are three stamps about childhood themes planned. As every other year there will be a stamp for the Bratislava Biennial of Illustrations. The other two stamps honour authoress Krista Bendová and cartoonist Viktor Kubal for their birth centenaries.
• The British Transformers set was revealed during a thematic fan event. It comprises of eight stamps plus a souvenir sheet with five Dinobots. By now they have already been issued. Surprisingly the set is not aimed at the toys or movies, but depicts comic characters. Most of them are unknown to me, but Optimus Prime, Megatron and Bumblebee are at least among them. Those three also got special fan sheets. 
• Images of the Chinese set about Black Cat Detective can now be found on the Internet. 
• Hungary once again issued on 2nd September a souvenir sheet about Hungarian children's characters. The theme of this year is Mazsola és Tádé, a puppet series running from 1969 to 1973.

The only new issue of August were the Buzz Lightyear stamps from the USA. That however is just the calm before the September storm.

To my own collection I added in August a Sleeping Beauty postmark from Germany, but by now I also already have the new German "Helden der Kindheit".

Portugal: Lord of the Rings (2022)

Used on a Card:

United Kingdom: Transformers (2022)

Germany: Childhood Heroes (2022)

This is the fourth set in the series "Helden der Kindheit" (Childhood Heroes). They show the Smurfs and Pumuckl.

On matching Cards with Special Postmarks:

Used on Cover with Special Postmark: