Anne Marie Doddel

Children's Stamps 2021: 80th Anniversary of Olivier B. Bommel & Tom Poes

Written in: Dutch • redactie • June 23, 2021

On the occasion of the eightieth anniversary of the Netherlands' most famous comic book heroes, Olivier B. Bommel and Tom Poes, five 2021 Kinderpostzegels (Children's Stamps) pay tribute to their adventures, created by Marten Toonder (1912 – 2005). He devised 177 stories. Almost sixty...

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