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designed and illustrated by Ed Wleczyk of Warner Bros.
The 1999 Daffy Duck stamp was not credited only to Ed Wleczyk. Smithsonian and contemporary reporting credit Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa, and Brenda Guttman for the artwork.
Full reasoning
This wording leaves out two of the artists officially credited on the stamp.
The Smithsonian National Postal Museum's entry for the 33¢ Daffy Duck pane states that "The Daffy Duck stamp was designed and illustrated by Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa, and Brenda Guttman". A contemporary Los Angeles Times report on the stamp's unveiling likewise says the image details were "drawn by Warner Bros. artists Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa and Brenda Guttman".
So while Ed Wleczyk was one of the credited artists, the stamp was not designed and illustrated by him alone.
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- 33c Daffy Duck pane of ten | Smithsonian Institution
The Daffy Duck stamp was designed and illustrated by Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa, and Brenda Guttman of Los Angeles, California.
- Daffy Duck Postage Stamp Draws Flock of Collectors - Los Angeles Times
It takes a magnifying glass to see those tiny details, drawn by Warner Bros. artists Ed Wleczyk, Frank Espinosa and Brenda Guttman for the Postal Service.
two letters in the mailbox that bear Bugs Bunny stamps.
The mailbox letters do not both bear Bugs Bunny stamps. Contemporary reporting says they show Bugs Bunny and the Sylvester-and-Tweety stamp.
Full reasoning
This sentence misdescribes the art on the 1999 USPS Daffy Duck stamp.
A contemporaneous Los Angeles Times report on the issue says Daffy is irritated because the letters in the mailbox bear "the likenesses of Bugs Bunny and the cat-and-canary team of Sylvester and Tweety". A philatelic write-up describing the stamp similarly says the letters picture Bugs Bunny and Sylvester and Tweety Bird.
So the mailbox art does not show two Bugs Bunny stamps; it shows one Bugs Bunny stamp and one Sylvester-and-Tweety stamp.
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- Daffy Duck Postage Stamp Draws Flock of Collectors - Los Angeles Times
The new stamp depicts Daffy leaning against a mailbox containing letters addressed to him. But he has an irritated look because the postage stamps on the letters bear the likenesses of Bugs Bunny and the cat-and-canary team of Sylvester and Tweety.
- Happy Birthday, Daffy Duck! – A Stamp A Day
Daffy appears quite perturbed when noticing the stamps on the letters in his mailbox picture Bug Bunny and Sylvester and Tweety Bird rather than himself.