Or that Luxor the Moonprince, whose magicring enabled recruited lords to be commanded remotely, had been slain, and Morkin had to abandon his quest and retrieve the ring to resume the armed struggle.
Above the central portrait, each stamp featured a picture of a lamp that the U.S. Post Office Department identified as the "Lamp of Knowledge" but that I thought of as Aladdin's lamp because of the boy in the Arabian Nights with the magic lamp and the ring and the two genies who give him whatever he asks for.