On the Record: Bill of Rights; 5-cent commemorative issued July 1, 1966 at Miami Beach, Fla. [aka Herblock Designs a Stamp].
Belmont Faries
S.P.A. Journal 30 (3; November 1967); cover, 163-170
It's worth quoting part of the article now.
The stamp's designer, also a speaker raised the question of how the Bill of Rights would fare if it were up for ratification today, quoting critics who ask 'Must our government be weak in the face of men accused of crime, who demand legal advice; weak before those who take the fifth amendment, weak before those who openly express differences with government policy even in time of war?
"The answer", he said, "is that the restriction imposed on government by the Bill of Rights - these so-called weakness of our government in relation to the rights of the individual person, of the poorest, the meanest or the most misguided of its people -- these are in fact our nation's greatest strength."
Update: the photograph from the cover is in the Library of Congress, but only available at low-resolution unless you visit. Thanks, Sara Duke!
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Michael Ramirez's March 7 editorial cartoon, "The response," alluding to the Democratic response to President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, ignored the stream of rebuttals from the Democratic community. Check out the rebuttal from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont). He was right on.
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online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/14/tesla-protests-shrimp-treadmills-ocd-parton/
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MAN WITH A HAT
Always Free. Occasionally Interesting.
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Dan Gvozden
I forgot to ask if you had any more details on the artwork's initial disappearance.
You mention that it disappeared from the Marvel warehouses in the '70s and/or '80s. But, I'm curious, do you know how it was being stored before then (given its perfect condition)? When did someone notice it was gone? Etc. I haven't found much information about its disappearance, just its sudden reappearance at the Library of Congress from an anonymous donor.
Which, I guess leads to another question. How has Marvel's artwork, especially those with a historic significance, been stored over the years?
This is a complicated question, Dan. But to give you a brief answer, the artwork for years was stored poorly in a dilapidated warehouse. And it wasn't a infrequent thing for whole books to be stolen (in some cases by creators working for the company.) But the value of the artwork in those days was considered minimal, so it was never all that big a deal. In the case of that AMAZING FANTASY artwork, I don't know much more for certain that you do, but as I understand things, the owner received it in the past as a gift, which isn't impossible—artwork would sometimes be given out to people involved in business dealings with Marvel— and first offered to return it to Steve Ditko. But Ditko's response was that the person had been given those pages fairly, and so he didn't see himself as having any claim on them. But that's all hearsay, and Ditko himself is gone now, so it's impossible to corroborate that story. Let's all just be happy that the boards wound up at the Library of Congress where they can be well-looked-after and enjoyed by many.
