tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post5448371617951106850..comments2016-02-10T13:06:46.599-08:00Comments on PICTURES IN THE SAND: Harvey Comic Book Heroes.Harry Flashmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934434757711097097noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post-68084409944648258072011-04-09T09:32:31.560-07:002011-04-09T09:32:31.560-07:00Oldest Daughter Admirer- anyone who wants to wear ...Oldest Daughter Admirer- anyone who wants to wear a Little Dot t-shirt is as dotty as Dot herself!!Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934434757711097097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post-45817204228579836872011-04-09T09:31:43.445-07:002011-04-09T09:31:43.445-07:00Hi Raekerr! Thanks for sharing such great memories...Hi Raekerr! Thanks for sharing such great memories. I know what you mean about the confusing Harvey comic book guest appearances. I remember one Richie Rich story where Richie was having a birthday party and Little Dot and Little Lotta were in attendance. Why? It wasn't explained. I didn't even think they lived in the same town, let alone know one another. The writers loved to mix it all up from time to time and make us wonder. Great fun!Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05934434757711097097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post-58272009575360563472011-04-09T08:31:01.443-07:002011-04-09T08:31:01.443-07:00I love little dot! I want a little dot shirt now!I love little dot! I want a little dot shirt now!OldestDaughterAdmirernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post-25329207124163030312011-04-08T07:04:47.442-07:002011-04-08T07:04:47.442-07:00Ach, I have ruined my post by missing out the word...Ach, I have ruined my post by missing out the word not as in "...the import clerks could not be bothered sorting out...". The shame.raekerrnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7946642644500060659.post-91990471499889797362011-04-08T07:01:33.950-07:002011-04-08T07:01:33.950-07:00Hello again, I don't know as much about Harvey...Hello again, I don't know as much about Harvey comics as some other publishers, but I did somehow end up with a stack of Richie Rich, Casper, Sad Sack and Dot somehow when I was in primary school. Comic distribution was totally random in the UK, with American comics appearing in bizarre groupings in tiny local shops such as "The Fishing Tackle" where they were sold alongside bait and mussels in the microscopically small Scottish fishing village where I grew up. No two deliveries were the same and I assume one of these must have been Harveys. I never saw an Archie comic until I was well into my twenties (that whole two girls on the go at once thing does not work best first approached from an adult perspective). Anyway, what I liked about Harvey was that the comics came in such a bewildering series of combinations. The same characters seemed to turn up in all the titles to some degree, no matter whose name was on the cover. Also, whichever way you looked at it, one of their main characters was rather dead, happy or not. Plus they were prone to publishing my main weakness, the giant size issue. Before American comics started printing special UK issues the comics were stamped at point of import with a price, and clearly the import clerks could be bothered sorting out which of a batch had thirty, sixty or (the pinnicale) 100 pages, often stamping them all the same price, generally around 7 pence. Cheap as dirt. DC changed almost all their titles to "100 pages for 60 cents" for about five minutes in the early seventies and it is still possible I might be buried with these issues because I love them so much.Raekerrnoreply@blogger.com