Germany: Childhood Heroes

On 2nd December the new stamps in the series Childhood Heroes were issued and on 18th December my cards with these stamps arrived.

The postcard value stamp shows Bibi and Tina. Bibi Blocksberg is the name of a young witch created by Elfie Donnelly in 1980. Until today over 140 episodes of the original audio drama were released and the character appeared also in TV shows and movies. Since 1991 there are also audio dramas released under the title Bibi and Tina, which deal with the adventures that Bibi experiences in her holidays together with her friend Tina on an equestrian farm. By now there are also over 100 episodes of this series, a TV show, movies and live performances. The first card I bought on Redbubble and turned into a maxicard, the second card was released by the German Post.

The letter value stamp deals with Die drei ??? (spoken: Die drei Fragezeichen, the three question marks). Die drei ??? was originally created in book form in the USA in 1964 under the title Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators, although Hitchcock's name was just a bait. He was not really connected to the stories. In Germany the series became very popular in book and even more audio format and was continued after 1993 when no more US stories were released. Part of the German success of the series were the cover designs by Aiga Rasch. Shown on the stamp are her covers for the first book and the first audio drama. The first card I bought on Redbubble and the second one is actually a flyer for an exhibition at the Wilhelm Busch Museum in Hanover, which I turned into a postcard.