Royal Mail’s latest franchising deal with the American publishers Marvel Comics has produced a set of 17 stamps devoted to the X-Men, issued on February 16.
The Aardman Classics stamp issue, released on October 19, is a celebration of the creative genius of British film studio Aardman Animations, which has been crafting beautifully detailed and humorous films in its instantly recognisable stop-motion style for almost half a century.