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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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Why Campaign Parameters Are Important in URL Structure
Back in August, I touched briefly on the fact that the new Bit.ly shortened URLs that I am rolling out contain “campaign parameters”. Read more
Posted on 11 November 2018 BOOKS -
Little Audrey Mini-maquette Guest Exhibit Posted
Today’s exhibit is the second of Larry Tremblay‘s Electric Tiki Design Teeny Weeny Mini-maquette figurines. This is another exclusive, but to a store instead... Read more
Posted on 04 November 2018 BOOKS -
Fifth Harvey Pin Jigidi Puzzle Posted
Here is the fifth of the wide variety of Harvey pins as a Jigidi puzzle: Buzzy pin To see all of the Harvey Mercheum puzzles, use the “New Puzzle” post... Read more
Posted on 28 October 2018 BOOKS -
Harvey Pin Jigidi Puzzles Posted
Today we have Jigidi puzzles of the first four of the wide variety of Harvey pins: Jigidi-casper-broom-pin jigidi-spooky-rumble-pin Jigidi-audrey-pin... Read more
Posted on 27 October 2018 BOOKS -
First of the Mini-maquette Guest Exhibits Posted!
Back in June, I posted one of Electric Tiki Design‘s Teeny Weeny Mini-maquette figurines in response to a photo Intelligent Collector magazine posted to... Read more
Posted on 20 October 2018 BOOKS -
Casper Chalk Board
Pop culture historian Mark Arnold and I were recently discussing children’s chalk boards. Mark let me know that one had been made for Casper in 1959, and... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2018 BOOKS -
External Links
While browsing the online collections of the Strong National Museum of Play, I found a page for the Casper the Friendly Ghost game. Read more
Posted on 10 October 2018 BOOKS -
Casper Keychain Exhibit Posted
It was almost four years ago that I posted the Casper Bendables figure and mentioned that there was a lot of merchandise released in conjunction with the 1995... Read more
Posted on 06 October 2018 BOOKS -
Good Reads!
I mentioned back in August how I was starting to use Bit.ly URLs, and that I was going to edit all posts and pages of the Harvey Mercheum website and establish ... Read more
Posted on 04 October 2018 BOOKS -
Valentine’s Day Jigidi Puzzles Posted
Today we have Jigidi puzzles from our Valentine’s Day 2016 celebration: Richie Rich “Can’t Buy Me Love” doll Hot Stuff chocolate rose, red variant Hot Stuff... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2018 BOOKS -
Collectors Weekly Adds Funko Page
The excellent collectibles site Collectors Weekly has just added a Funko page. Long-time readers of the Mercheum Blog may recall the Richie Rich and Wendy... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2018 BOOKS -
Museum Day 2018
Today is Museum Day! Did you get your tickets already? I hope so, because I just finished reading the book we bought to accompany a museum exhibit we saw earlie... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2018 BOOKS -
Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!
It was just over two years ago that I switched the Harvey Mercheum website’s theme from Suffusion to Weaver Xtreme. Weaver Xtreme supports certain Google... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2018 BOOKS -
Greg Ehrbar Post About the Richie Rich Story Records
Earlier today, Greg Erhbar posted an in-depth look at the records PolyGram made for Harvey under their Parachute label on the Cartoon Research website. Read more
Posted on 12 September 2018 BOOKS -
Public Status Page from Pingdom Now Available
Now that I have finally posted a new exhibit, I don’t feel so bad about making more improvements to the Harvey Mercheum website. Read more
Posted on 09 September 2018 BOOKS -
Casper Pencil Cases for Back to School
I really must apologize. I know I said things are crazy around here, and I know I was away for a weekend to go to TerrifiCon, but it has been more than a month... Read more
Posted on 08 September 2018 BOOKS -
TerrifiCon Gets a New Home!
Things have been absolutely crazy around here lately, and will be crazy for the rest of September unfortunately. Reading Scoop‘s recap of TerrifiCon made me... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2018 BOOKS -
Kinsta Blog Post on Redirects
It was only a couple of weeks ago that I posted about how, while http: versions of hyperlinks to the Harvey Mercheum website will redirect to https:, the... Read more
Posted on 31 August 2018 BOOKS -
Rocket Loader Now Enabled for the Harvey Mercheum
I am always looking for ways to improve the Harvey Mercheum website. I mentioned back in March that the Harvey Mercheum website was now using Cloudflare. Read more
Posted on 26 August 2018 BOOKS -
Large Casper Doll Jigidi Puzzle Posted
Our retrospective has finally reached 2016! The first exhibit for the year was a guest contribution from comics historian Mark Arnold. Here is a Jigidi puzzle o... Read more
Posted on 25 August 2018 BOOKS