I would like to take a moment to welcome the newest supporter of the Harvey Mercheum website, Paul Merolle! He is a long time fan of Harvey Comics, with a special interest in character glassware. You see, Paul is President of PopFun Merchandising, LLC, the company that brought us the wonderful Harvey Toon Tumblers, and continues to make Toon Tumblers for the remaining comic publishers.
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Harvey merchandise ads part 3: the 1970’s
Continued from part 2:
Harvey merchandise ads part 2: the 1960’s
Today we conclude Rick Beckham’s scans of advertisements for Harvey merchandise with a total of thirteen from the 1970’s. We start with two from 1972:
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Continued from part 1:
Harvey merchandise ads part 1: the 1950’s
Today we continue Rick Beckham’s scans of advertisements for Harvey merchandise with a total of nine from the 1960’s. We start with two from February of 1960:
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After submitting so many wonderful guest exhibits, Rick Beckham then started going through his comic book collection, looking for advertisements for Harvey merchandise. Starting in 1956, he worked forward until he found these three from February of 1959:
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Sorry for not posting last weekend, I was working on the Harvey Mercheum exhibit pages. I have now completed converting the 2015 exhibits to Gutenberg blocks and printouts to PDFs. I still have to combine all of these PDFs into a 2015 Exhibit Guide.
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Well, I did it again. I was planning a big exhibit for this weekend to celebrate the 125th item posted. Then I reviewed my notes, and realized I had only counted one of the two Little Lotta Mini-maquettes. This means that the Artist Proof of the Richie Rich Mini-maquette was actually the 125th exhibit. I am actually rather happy that this great exhibit ended up being an important milestone, I just wish I had acknowledged it.
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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 juggler. It has been almost three years since I last did a “Harvey corporate” post! I really must apologize. Today we go from the cut-and-pasted mock-up of an advertisement for Little Audrey to some slick advertising pages Classic Media did for their characters back in 2004:
Little Audrey advertisement mock-up
I had mentioned back in December that there are bits of Harvey corporate culture in the permanent collection which would not have been available to the general public but which have found their way into the collectibles marketplace. I was recently reminded that it has been a while since I posted any of these, so today I would like to share a “mock-up” or “paste-up” of an advertisement promoting Playful Little Audrey. The copyright beneath Audrey is 1961, so that is probably a good estimate of this piece’s age.
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There are several items in the Harvey Mercheum permanent collection which are not merchandise, but which I want to share anyway. Several of these items are bits of Harvey corporate culture, which would not have been available to the general public but which have found their way into the collectibles marketplace. I shall present these items as posts but not exhibits.
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