Anyone into old Harvey Comics?

[Hintermann]

I wondered if there are any collectors of classic Harvey Comics titles from the Silver Age. Harvey did some excellent tiltes like Sad Sack, Little Dot, Richie Rich, Casper, Spooky, Little Audrey etc. Their range was small compared to other publishers of the time, but the stories were usually good, lighthearted fun.

[Sleeper]

Used to have a few from Casper, Wendy the Witch, Hot Stuff and Baby Huey. Have absolutely no idea where the stash has gone to though. Absolutely none. Collected a few of them when buying pizza, as was the custom at the time, and a few from the store.

Damn, really wish I could figure out where they all went.

[Hintermann]

Used to have a few from Casper, Wendy the Witch, Hot Stuff and Baby Huey. Have absolutely no idea where the stash has gone to though. Absolutely none. Collected a few of them when buying pizza, as was the custom at the time, and a few from the store.

Damn, really wish I could figure out where they all went.

Some of them could've ended up with me :D . Over the years, I have bought loads of comics (including Harvey) by mail order and later e-bay. A lot of it is from the US and so who knows?

[spideyrules99]

Richie Rich and Casper where the two that I would read all the time. They were good fun reads.

[Hintermann]

My favourite was (and still is!) Sad Sack. I also liked Little Dot with all her exotic Uncles & Aunts around the world. Richie Rich was good up to a point (late 60s) but Harvey went way over the top with all those additional RR titles in the 70s which brought the standards right down.

[Scott Shaw!]

Harvey went way over the top with all those additional RR titles in the 70s which brought the standards right down.

You mean RICHIE RICH ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, RICHIE RIGH SLUSH FUND, RICHIE RICH TAX EXEMPTIONS and the final spin-off, RICHIE RICH BANKRUPTSY?

Yeah, I hated those, too.

Aloha,

Scott!

[dougiemccoy]

where can you find these books...that don't cost a whole heck of a lot???

[Hintermann]

where can you find these books...that don't cost a whole heck of a lot???

In the past, I got them mainly from mail order dealers in the UK. One had to read the classified adverts in comic magazines regulalry to see a reasonable offer. I was also lucky with a few closing sales packages at Comic Conventions (got hold of a job lot of old Gilberton Classics that way!).

Nowadays, with the internet ruling the roost, I get them mainly from E-bay. I have my own 'wants' list and if I happen to find a comic that I want, I look at the 'other items' from the seller(s) for more wanteds and make up my own package before bidding. Since a lot of them are on "Buy it Now!", this approach works.

[Rob Allen]

Here's the place for Harvey fans - the website of the Harveyville Fun Times:

http://thft.home.att.net

Enjoy!

[Mark Arnold]

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[jam]

Shame that the market won't support something like the Harvey line.

You'd think digest-sized reprints of these timeless tales might sell.

A man can dream, can't he?

[Hintermann]

Shame that the market won't support something like the Harvey line.

You'd think digest-sized reprints of these timeless tales might sell.

A man can dream, can't he?

I'm a great fan of Harvey comics at 51 years of age. But the problem is that titles like Sad Sack, Casper, Little Dot etc were primarily aimed at Kids of the day and with a few exceptions (some Little Dot 15-pagers) did not have long, action filled adventures. Since present day kids are seldom 'into' comic books and Harvey Comics don't fit into the popular image of a 'collectable' comics, they get the sharp end of the stick. Pity, really.

[Scott Shaw!]

By some odd coincidence, this week's ODDBALL COMIC is a typical issue of Harvey's LITTLE DOT DOTLAND -- but with a very odd cover, featuring a close relative of the Creature From The Black Lagoon! Check it out!

Aloha,

Scott!

[Hintermann]

Like Gold Key, Harvey Comics also appear to have started to hit the skids by the late 1960s and got progressively worse. The Giant issues (and later even the standard size ones) started to bring in reprints of older stories and were later downsized from 68 to 52 pages. Sadly, Harvey tried several window-dressing gimmiks to bring-in new fans amidst a failing market - like glossy new titles with Richie Rich & Casper. Although they withstood the initial slide a bit longer than Gold Key, Harvey deteriorated more rapidly in the 70s once the rot had set in.

[Jeddy]

I am also a Harvey fan. The first back issue I ever purchased was a copy of Richie Rich and (Little) Dot #1 back around 1977. I was buying the Harvey titles during the mid 70's and distinctly remember when they added the bar codes to the front covers (1978). I use that point as a general cutoff when I am now buying additional Harvey's for my collection.

My favorite titles from the 60's include Little Dot's Uncles and Aunts and Little Lotta's Foodland.

[TVComicsFan]

I loved Harvey Comics (along with Dells and Gold Keys) as a kid, back in the
late fifties and early sixties. Still do, in fact. I bought the Dark Horse Casper
trade paperback, and it brought back lots of good memories. They had some
great talent working on those books, esp. Warren Kremer and Howard Post. I
also liked Fred Rhoads' work on Sad Sack,

[dan bailey]

I'm sort of surprised to see that back when this thread originated I didn't come forward with the disclosure that circa 3rd grade I was a member in good standing of the "Bunny Ball In-Club," having taken advantage of Harvey's offer of (to cut & paste from Scott's 4/29/07 review of Bunny #12)


”an (sp.) groovish ‘I’m IN With Bunny’ pop art button” and “an (sp.) yvoorg BBIC membership card”, all for 25¢ and available through mail-order from “Bunny Ball”.

I quite liked Bunny back then, obviously, but haven't laid eyes on a single page of the series in some 40 years. While I've still got several dozen coverless, much-read remnants of old ishes of Richie Rich, Little Audrey, Little Lotta, Little Dot, Casper, etc, it looks like none of my Bunnys have survived the passing of the decades ... & ishes on eBay or from various online vendors tend to go for far more than I'd be willing to pay. *sigh*

[Scott Shaw!]

Predictably, I dig BUNNY (drawn by Hy Eisman; I'm closing in on a complete run of this comic originally based on a doll that was never manufactured) and its ODDBALL spinoffs, FRUITMAN SPECIAL, THE COWSILLS and ROCK HAPPENING. I also really love Joe Simon's various "Harvey Thrillers". The superheroes they feature range from the wonderful (THE SPIRIT, FIGHTING AMERICAN) to the ridiculous ("Pirana", "Jigsaw", "Bee-Man") to the unique (Wally Wood's "Miracles, Inc." and "Earthman", Al Williamson's "Clawfang the Barbarian"). And my favorite Harvey artists are Bob Powell, Howard Nostrand (who both did a lot of work on Harvey's quite solid horror comics), Howard Post and the ODDBALL Jack O'Brien (creator of "G.I. Juniors" in HARVEY HITS and "Captain Flower" in FRUITMAN SPECIAL).

Aloha,

Scott!

[Metamorpho]

I really loved all those great Harvey comics, my favorites being L'il Dot, Sad Sack, Hot Stuff (gotta love his anger management issues:biggrin: ) and the one and only Little Lotta (although I'm sure she'd be considered politically incorrect in these "enlightened" times:rolleyes: )