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• Starting the 2016 Comic Convention Circuit

  On Sunday, April 3rd, I attended the Albany Toy Show. I was surprised at how many of the comic book show dealers were in attendance. While I don’t mind, I was... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2016 BOOKS

• Richie Rich Belt Exhibit Posted

  

  As promised, today I am very excited to feature an exhibit of one of my most sought-after items! A friend of the Mercheum that wishes to remain anonymous sent m... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2016 BOOKS

• Collecting in Social Media

  Friday I ran across not one, but two posts about different aspects of collecting that I would like to share. The first is about “completist collectors”:10 Insan... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2016 BOOKS

• 28 Exhibits Posted in Second Year!

  

  Today is the two year anniversary of the Harvey Mercheum! 28 new exhibits were posted during the second year of operation, slightly exceeding my goal of one... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2016 BOOKS

• Sad Sack Pin Exhibit Posted

  

  I was going to post this pin last week, but when I went to work on the post, the shared server this website resides on was having file system problems. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2016 BOOKS

• Starting to Document the Wide Variety of Harvey Pins!

  

  I had meant to start posting these sooner, but I caught the sore throat and cold that is going around and it wiped me out. At the end of January, there was a... Read more

  Posted on 05 March 2016 BOOKS

• About the Author

  I had made reference to the Yoast SEO plugin back in November. While configuring this plugin, one of the changes I made to the Harvey Mercheum website based on... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2016 BOOKS

• Celebrating Valentine’s Day, Harvey Style!

  

  To celebrate Valentine’s Day, I present a veritable bouquet of exhibits: not one, not two, but FOUR new exhibits posted!The first is a very cute Richie Rich... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 BOOKS

• Website Updates Complete!

  I had mentioned back in November that the WordPress theme that the Harvey Mercheum website is using, Suffusion, was being updated. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 BOOKS

• First New Jigidi Puzzles for 2016

  

  There has been a lot of activity on the Harvey Comics Facebook group recently. I am pleased to announce that I have been given permission to exhibit some of... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 BOOKS

• On Fonts

  In my previous post about designing a logo for the Harvey Mercheum, I mentioned that I used the “Gill Sans MT Condensed” font. I should have mentioned that... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2016 BOOKS

• Large Casper Doll Exhibit Posted

  

  Comics historian Mark Arnold posted a picture of his collection of Casper dolls to the Harvey Comics Facebook group. He recently posted pictures of the largest... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 BOOKS

• Website Updates Almost Complete

  Well, the new year is firmly under way, and I continue to be busy. The small amount of time I have been able to devote to the Harvey Mercheum website recently... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2016 BOOKS

• “Too Much of a Good Thing” Multi-Media Module

  

  Happy New Year from the Harvey Mercheum! I would like to start this year with a very rare and unusual bit of Harvey history. Comics historian Mark Arnold... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2016 BOOKS