The Harvey Mercheum is sad to report the passing of former Harvey Comics editor Sid Jacobson. He passed away on the night of July 23rd, 2022, and was 92 years old:
Sidney Jacobson Obituary (1929 – 2022)
Thank you Sid for your contributions to the Harvey comics we all know and love.
Update: Pop culture historian Mark Arnold has written his own obituary for Sid for The Comics Journal, you can read it here:
I am back from a much-needed vacation! While I was gone, issue 6 of Toy-Ventures magazine was released. Toy-Ventures is published by Brian Heiler of Plaid Stallions website fame.
Continue reading →Lifehacker posted this article a couple of weeks ago about how to use a custom background in Microsoft Teams:
How to Use Custom Backgrounds in Microsoft Teams Video Calls
The sizing is a little different than Zoom, so I created an “Explosion of Merchandise” background just for Teams. I have added a link to the image to the “Downloads” section of the left navigation bar, and here it is below:
I would like to add my voice to those expressing their sorrow at the loss of Tommy Maletta, owner of Best Comics International. Tommy died of cancer, not Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), but was only 61 years old.
Continue reading →Now you can show your support for the Harvey Mercheum by using the new “Explosion of Merchandise” background while on Zoom! The image has been sized according to Zoom’s guidelines:
Zoom Rooms Customized Background
I have added a link to the image to the “Downloads” section of the left navigation bar, and here it is below:
As most of you have probably already heard, Ernesto Colón Sierra, known to us as Ernie Colón, passed away at his home on August 8, 2019. He died of cancer, and was 88 years old:
Continue reading →Long-time readers of the Mercheum Blog know that I am a supporter of RSS feeds. I subscribe to my own feeds using Microsoft Office Outlook, in other words I use Outlook as my feed aggregator. New posts come in looking like emails:
Collectibles are once again in the spotlight thanks to a new show on MeTV called Collector’s Call. Friday’s Scoop e-newsletter reminded me that I had not watched the first two episodes that I had recorded.
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Well, that is a most unfortunate fortune for someone who does what I am doing to receive! As a reminder, the point of the Harvey Mercheum website is not to show off my personal collection, and certainly not to make people envious! I am more than happy to display other people’s collections, please use the Contact the Curator form to let me know what you have!
My wife and I have an old video tape storage cabinet in our living room that we use as a display case. I like to call it our “Cabinet of Curiosities“. We like to rotate what is on display, but it has been empty since Christmas. I finally put part of the permanent collection into it:
Some of the items you might recognize, such as the Little Audrey travel case in the bottom left corner, or the Joker doll next to it that started the second hundred exhibits. Others have not been featured yet. Seeing these wonderful toys on display makes me happy, I hope it makes you happy too!
