# US Post Office Has E.R. Burroughs Stamps! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 8, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371 "2013-03-08T13:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/1 "2013-03-08T13:33:55Z")
I had to mail a letter yesterday-and was pleased to see that Burroughs has finally been honored by a 1st Class stamp! One of America’s best known authors-at last! Now if we could only get decent movies versions of the Martian novels! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/2 "2013-03-08T14:58:46Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I had to mail a letter yesterday-and was pleased to see that Burroughs has finally been honored by a 1st Class stamp! One of America’s best known authors-at last! > Now if we could only get decent movies versions of the Martian novels! We just got a decent movie version of the first Martian novel. But it was torpedoed by the head of Disney studios whose watch it wasn’t purchased on, but who couldn’t scuttle it because it was PIXAR’s baby, so he skimped ridiculously on advertising and announced the studio was writing it off after it had been out for a week. Have you seen the film? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/3 "2013-03-08T15:32:50Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > . . .Have you seen the film? Yes. . . and[it was great!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1531911/combined)😃 ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/4 "2013-03-08T15:56:43Z")
What about a William S. Burroughs stamp? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/5 "2013-03-08T17:10:53Z")
> [@Malthus](#): > > What about a William S. Burroughs stamp? 😃 My thought exactly. But it would have to come with its own adhesive - I’m not licking one of those things. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/6 "2013-03-08T20:48:58Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > We just got a decent movie version of the first Martian novel. But it was torpedoed by the head of Disney studios whose watch it wasn’t purchased on, but who couldn’t scuttle it because it was PIXAR’s baby, so he skimped ridiculously on advertising and announced the studio was writing it off after it had been out for a week. > > Have you seen the film? Advertising too skimpy. Dejah Thoris costume not skimpy enough. 😃 I liked it but didn’t love it, but I can see how people not fans of the novels would be so-so about it. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/7 "2013-03-08T20:51:58Z")
[Link to PO page on the stamp](http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2012/pr12_094.htm) It came out last year. Not that attractive a stamp. And it looks to me that Tarzan is swinging on the vines, which he pretty much did not do in the books, best as I can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/8 "2013-03-08T21:42:41Z")
I sent out all our wedding thank yous with those. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-post-office-has-e-r-burroughs-stamps/652371/9 "2013-03-08T21:45:29Z")
Those have been out for several months. I emailed the gal at our library that runs the trivia games, once I saw them, because I thought an ERB category would be cool, for the game. Didn’t happen.