MALTA€0.10Marine Man and VallettaImage unavailable
2023MALTA€1.50Red superhero holding Malta’s flagImage unavailable
Image permission not established
2023 / Art & artists
Red superhero holding Malta’s flag
Comic Art in Malta 2023
Denomination€1.50
Issue date2023-10-25
The story behind the issue
The issue draws on the artbook Impressions of an island, published by Heritage Malta with Wicked Comics. The announcement names Ian Churchill, INKO and Martin Griffiths without assigning their artworks to individual values.
Technical details
- Issuing authority
- MaltaPost p.l.c.
- Postal purpose
- Postage
- Currency
- EUR
- Designer
- Not documented
- Printer
- Printex Ltd
- Printing process
- Offset
- Stamp dimensions
- 31 × 44 mm
- Perforation
- 13.9 × 14.0
- Watermark
- Maltese Cross
- Paper
- Not documented
- Colour
- Not documented
- Quantity
- Not documented
Sources & verification
Partially verifiedArtwork-to-value attribution requires further evidence.
Research notes: The original set and postal-administration account resolve artist-to-value mapping. MaltaPost’s bilingual contemporary announcement gives Wednesday 25 October first sale; SEPAC metadata gives 24 October. Retain 25 October pending an independently dated first-day specimen.
- MaltaPost contemporary announcement ↗
- SEPAC postal-administration issue page and original stamp illustration ↗
Image & attribution
Image permission not established
All stamps described in the cited announcement; reprints and presentation products excluded.