Casper Chalk Board

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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 provided this image:

Casper Chalk Board front view.

1959 was of course a great year for Harveyana, because of the debut of Matty’s Funday Funnies on ABC-TV. We have already seen the vinyl figures Hungerford released that year. Mark claims the Casper chalk board was made in blue and black. If any of you, my readers, own one, know of one for sale, or have any additional information about these chalk boards you would like to share, please leave a comment below!

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While browsing the online collections of the Strong National Museum of Play, I found a page for the Casper the Friendly Ghost game. I wanted some way to tie this new information to the exhibit, and to the BoardGameGeek link I had shared on the original post.

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Casper keychain exhibit posted

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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 live action Casper movie. Today’s exhibit is another movie item, this time a very large keychain made by Dakin, a company better known for stuffed animals. I know I would not want to carry this around in my pocket, it is larger than a golf ball!

Casper keychain

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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 a structure for internal links. I have started this process, and is going to take me even longer than I expected.

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Valentine’s Day Jigidi puzzles posted

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Today we have Jigidi puzzles from our Valentine’s Day 2016 celebration:

To see all of the Harvey Mercheum puzzles, use the “New Puzzle” post category on this website:

New Puzzle

or visit the HMCurator creator page on Jigidi:

Jigsaw puzzles by HMCurator

Collectors Weekly adds Funko page

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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 Wacky Wobbler exhibits. I have updated the Funko manufacturer page with a link to this new Collectors Weekly page.

Museum Day 2018

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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 earlier this summer, and while it was very nicely made, the photos really did not do justice to the artwork. It is much better to see exhibits in person if possible, and today is a great day to do so. Search for a participating museum near you and go visit!

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto!

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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 Fonts, and I chose Roboto Slab for titles and Roboto for text (Roboto Condensed in the sidebars). Kinsta just posted on their blog that the Roboto font family is the most popular on Google Fonts, with the Condensed style sixth, and the Slab style thirteenth. I guess I made a decent choice! My original inspiration for the combination was Brian Garnder’s post Top 5 Google Font Combinations, but unfortunately, that post no longer renders the fonts correctly.

Greg Ehrbar post about the Richie Rich story records

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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. The article mentions that there were five of the 33 1/3 RPM LP’s, of which three have been featured as exhibits here on the Harvey Mercheum website:

4 Great Stories

Mysteries of the Deep!

and Surprise Party!

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