Hmcurator
Founder and curator of the Harvey Mercheum
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The Harvey Mercheum
https://www.harveymercheum.com/
The mission of the Harvey Mercheum is to catalog and document as many unique examples of Harvey comics merchandise as possible, and to make this information accessible to collectors present and future.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 352 )
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Museum Day 2018 Tickets Now Available
I like to acknowledge Museum Day Live! (now just Museum Day) each year as part of the Harvey Mercheum “special days“. While it is fun to visit virtual museums... Read more
Posted on 22 August 2018 BOOKS -
World Photo Day 2018
Today is World Photo Day! I am away this weekend and am unable to participate, but photography is very important to this website, so I still wanted to... Read more
Posted on 19 August 2018 BOOKS -
Casper Sticker Sheets Jigidi Puzzles Posted
Two Jigidi puzzles today, the two Casper sticker sheets that I suspect were a prize of some sort. I never did find out for sure, nor did I find out any more... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2018 BOOKS -
Bit.ly URLs Being Rolled out
It seems that I am very good at making busy work for myself. I decided that even though http: versions of hyperlinks to the Harvey Mercheum website will redirec... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2018 BOOKS -
3-D Rarities Blu-ray Disc Guest Exhibit Posted
Our latest guest contribution comes from 3-D enthusiast and operator of the 3-D Review website Van Beydler. Van wanted to let me know about the 3-D Rarities... Read more
Posted on 05 August 2018 BOOKS -
World Wide Web Day 2018
Sorry for the lack of posts as of late. There are a number of things going on right now, some of which directly impact the Harvey Mercheum. I hope to resume... Read more
Posted on 01 August 2018 BOOKS -
HTTPS Warning Day
I was just reading this excellent post by Troy Hunt about why even a static HTML website should use HTTPS, when I was reminded by The Hacker News that today is... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2018 BOOKS -
Happy Birthday to Me! Richie Rich Birthday Party Exhibit Posted
Well, another birthday in the books, but today I am continuing the celebration by posting one of the most recent acquisitions for the permanent collection. Read more
Posted on 22 July 2018 BOOKS -
Browse Collection By Tree Changes
I recently had an email discussion with the support team at https://www.wpbeginner.com/ about my problems finding a replacement for my custom taxonomies menu... Read more
Posted on 15 July 2018 BOOKS -
Electric City Comic Con 2018
Today was the fourth Electric City Comic Con, at the main branch of the Schenectady County Public Library (SCPL). Once again, my wife Jennifer and I... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2018 BOOKS -
Image Links Fixed
I have gone through all 115 exhibit pages and fixed all of the image links from http: to https:. Once again, if you notice broken links, missing images, or any... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2018 BOOKS -
Wendy Halloween Bucket Jigidi Puzzle Posted
I wanted to put up a quick post today, but when I went to check the exhibit page I needed, I noticed that none of the images were displaying! There was just a... Read more
Posted on 08 July 2018 BOOKS -
The Harvey Mercheum is Now Using HTTPS!
One of the reasons I moved hosting of the Harvey Mercheum website from Arvixe to SiteGround was the promise of one click conversion to HTTPS and a free Let’s... Read more
Posted on 04 July 2018 BOOKS -
Classic Media Advertising Pages
I frequently feel like running the Harvey Mercheum is a lot like juggling, trying to keep many balls in the air at once. It turns out that I am a terrible... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2018 BOOKS -
Harveytoons Mini Lunch Box Jigidi Puzzle Posted
To celebrate the end of school for the summer, here is a Jigidi puzzle of the Harveytoons mini lunch box: Harveytoons mini lunch box To see all of the Harvey... Read more
Posted on 17 June 2018 BOOKS -
“Recent Exhibits” Change
While performing an inventory of plugins used, I discovered that the plugin I was using to display “Recent Exhibits” in the left navigation bar had not been... Read more
Posted on 14 June 2018 BOOKS -
Richie Rich Surprise Party Story Record Jigidi Puzzle Posted
This week, our retrospective brings us to the third posted Richie Rich story record by PolyGram under their Parachute label, Surprise Party. Read more
Posted on 09 June 2018 BOOKS -
Richie Rich Mini-maquette Exhibit Posted!
One of the biggest news items in comics this week was about Stephen A. Geppi donating over 3,000 items from his personal collection to the Library of Congress. Read more
Posted on 02 June 2018 BOOKS -
Focus and Text Outlines Added
I have made a couple of minor changes to the Harvey Mercheum website, based on some reading I have been doing on website accessibility and CSS. Read more
Posted on 28 May 2018 BOOKS -
Happy 15th Anniversary WordPress!
I am not sure what is harder to believe: that WordPress has been around for fifteen years, or that I have been using it for almost six! Read more
Posted on 27 May 2018 BOOKS