2020 First-Class Forever Stamps,Bugs Bunny: Operatic Brunhilde
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US #5498
2020 Brünhilde – Bugs Bunny
- One of 10 stamp designs celebrating Bugs Bunny’s 80th birthday
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Bugs Bunny
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: July 27, 2020
First Day City: Burbank, California
Quantity Issued: 50,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, overall
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Bugs Bunny’s official screen debut.
About the stamp designs: Pictures a one of Bugs Bunny’s iconic personas – Brünhilde. The artwork came directly from Warner Bros. animation artists who also created the sketches on the reverse side of the complete pane of 20 stamps.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic with a First Day of Issue postmark from Burbank, California, home of Warner Bros.
About the Bugs Bunny set: Includes 10 different stamp designs issued in honor of Bugs Bunny’s debut on screen in 1940. Each design pictures a different on of Bugs’ famous personas: a barber, basketball player, Hollywood celebrity, court jester, Brünhilde, mermaid, piano player, super-rabbit, baseball player, and soldier. The set also honors Bugs’ place in popular culture and animation history.
History the stamp represents: In 1994, a group of 1,000 animation experts created a list of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time. Bugs Bunny episodes made the list several times including the very top spot. The cartoon was titled What’s Opera, Doc? And was released in 1957. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. This was the very last Elmer Fudd cartoon Jones directed.
What’s Opera, Doc? Was a parody of Richard Wagner’s 19th-century German operas. The cartoon features Elmer Fudd as the powerful Siegfried, hunting a “wabbit” through the woods with his speak and “magic helmet.” When he discovers Bugs in his hole, he attacks, and Bugs flees.
As always, Bugs comes up with a plan to make a fool out of Elmer. He dresses up as the beautiful Valkyrie Brünnhilde and appears in a golden dress and helmet with braids. Bugs rides in on the back of a comically fat white horse and he and Elmer perform a lover’s ballet. Eventually, Bugs’ helmet falls off and the jig is up. Elmer is enraged and uses his magic helmet to bring down every natural disaster he can think of on Bugs.
Unlike most cartoons, Elmer actually succeeds in “killing” Bugs, though he immediately regrets it. It just proves that even when bugs “loses,” he wins.
US #5498
2020 Brünhilde – Bugs Bunny
- One of 10 stamp designs celebrating Bugs Bunny’s 80th birthday
Stamp Category: Commemorative
Set: Bugs Bunny
Value: 55¢ First Class Mail Rate (Forever)
First Day of Issue: July 27, 2020
First Day City: Burbank, California
Quantity Issued: 50,000,000
Printed by: Banknote Corporation of America
Printing Method: Offset
Format: Panes of 20
Tagging: Phosphor, overall
Why the stamp was issued: To commemorate the 80th anniversary of Bugs Bunny’s official screen debut.
About the stamp designs: Pictures a one of Bugs Bunny’s iconic personas – Brünhilde. The artwork came directly from Warner Bros. animation artists who also created the sketches on the reverse side of the complete pane of 20 stamps.
First Day City: The First Day of Issue Ceremony was held virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic with a First Day of Issue postmark from Burbank, California, home of Warner Bros.
About the Bugs Bunny set: Includes 10 different stamp designs issued in honor of Bugs Bunny’s debut on screen in 1940. Each design pictures a different on of Bugs’ famous personas: a barber, basketball player, Hollywood celebrity, court jester, Brünhilde, mermaid, piano player, super-rabbit, baseball player, and soldier. The set also honors Bugs’ place in popular culture and animation history.
History the stamp represents: In 1994, a group of 1,000 animation experts created a list of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of All Time. Bugs Bunny episodes made the list several times including the very top spot. The cartoon was titled What’s Opera, Doc? And was released in 1957. It was directed by Chuck Jones and written by Michael Maltese. This was the very last Elmer Fudd cartoon Jones directed.
What’s Opera, Doc? Was a parody of Richard Wagner’s 19th-century German operas. The cartoon features Elmer Fudd as the powerful Siegfried, hunting a “wabbit” through the woods with his speak and “magic helmet.” When he discovers Bugs in his hole, he attacks, and Bugs flees.
As always, Bugs comes up with a plan to make a fool out of Elmer. He dresses up as the beautiful Valkyrie Brünnhilde and appears in a golden dress and helmet with braids. Bugs rides in on the back of a comically fat white horse and he and Elmer perform a lover’s ballet. Eventually, Bugs’ helmet falls off and the jig is up. Elmer is enraged and uses his magic helmet to bring down every natural disaster he can think of on Bugs.
Unlike most cartoons, Elmer actually succeeds in “killing” Bugs, though he immediately regrets it. It just proves that even when bugs “loses,” he wins.