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- Circa - 2020
- Issuer - USPS
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- Scott Number - 5502
- Face Value- Forever (55¢ each)
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On Bugs Bunny's 80th birthday, July
27, 2020, the United States Post Office
issued a pane of 20 Forever stamps
which features Bugs in 10 classic
Looney Tune costumes. The stamps were
released in Burbank, CA, to commemorate
the 80th anniversary of Bugs’ debut in
Tex Avery’s 1940 classic, “A Wild
Hare."
The
baseball themed stamp depicts Bugs warming up to
pitch a big-league ballgame from the
1946 classic cartoon short; "Baseball
Bugs" when Bugs Bunny singlehandedly
defeats the "Gas-House Gorillas," a
baseball team of hulking,
cigar-chomping bullies. When a pitcher
throws an incredible changeup, MLB team
announcers often use the term "Bugs
Bunny changeup." The term was taken
from this cartoon short, but Bugs calls
it his "slow ball," and strikes out
three Gas-House Gorillas, on one pitch.
The stamp artwork was created especially for USPS by Warner Bros.
Entertainment Inc., featuring work from
Warner Bros. Animation artists. Greg
Breeding designed the stamps, while
William J. Gicker served as art
director.
The First day cover pictured above
features a Gas-House Gorilla tossing a
ball up in the air with the “wascally
wabbit” Bugs Bunny looking on. Marvin
the Martian is in between the two,
wielding a bat ready to hit a ball with
a high leg kick. The stamp is canceled
with the official "80 Years of Bugs
Bunny, First Day Issue, July 27, 2020,
Burbank, CA 91505" postmark.
Forever Stamps can be used to mail a one-ounce letter regardless of when
the stamps are purchased or used and no
matter how prices may change in the
future. Forever Stamps are always sold
at the same price as a regular
First-Class Mail stamp.
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2020 Bugs Bunny 80th
Anniversary USPS
55¢ Forever Postage Stamps |
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