abstract:John Charles Bryan (November 12, 1934 – February 1, 2007) was an American newspaper publisher, editor and journalist who was best known for founding and running the Los Angeles alternative newspaper Open City. The son of a Cleveland, Ohio newspaperman, the Cleveland-born Bryan worked as a journalist for a wide variety of major newspapers: the San Diego Tribune, the Los Angeles Mirror, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Houston Post, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner.
Alongside Charles on the new stamp collection are Kevin Keegan, Bobby Charlton, Bryan Robson, John Barnes, Gordon Banks, Jimmy Greaves, Denis Law, Dave Mackay, Bobby Moore and George Best.