Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #11
Richie Rich Dollars and Cents #11 (January 1966) is a representative mid-run entry in one of Harvey Comics' longest-lived anthology vehicles — a series that ran 109 issues from 1963 through 1982 and served as a key showcase for the interlocking Harvey universe of characters. The issue demonstrates Harvey's editorial model at full stride: stacking Richie Rich lead stories alongside Little Dot, Little Lotta, and backup humor strips, all within a generous 68-page, quarter-cover package that made Harvey titles exceptional value on 1960s newsstands. The 'Snobsdale' story, in which Richie discovers ancestral land rights and hands territory back to its original Native American claimants, stands out as an unusually pointed social gag for a children's humor book of its era. Several stories from this issue were judged worthy of reprinting across the Harvey line and, decades later, in Dark Horse's Harvey Comics Classics volume 2 (2007), confirming the editorial regard in which this run was held.
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Richie Rich Dollars and Cents launched in August 1963 as one of several spinoff titles Harvey built around its breakout character, who had debuted in Little Dot #1 (September 1953) and first received his own flagship title in 1960. The series was part of an expanding publishing strategy that would eventually see Richie starring in more than fifty separate titles. Individual story credits for issue #11 are unattributed in surviving records, consistent with Harvey's general practice of not printing creator credits; the studio pool of writers included Sid Jacobson, Lennie Herman, Stan Kay, and Ralph Newman, while the art stable featured Warren Kremer — the character's defining visual stylist — alongside Sid Couchey, Steve Muffatti, and others.
Trivia · 8 facts
- Cover-dated January 1966; published by Harvey Comics as part of the Richie Rich Dollars and Cents series (1963–1982, 109 total issues).
- Runs 68 pages in full color at a cover price of 25 cents, consistent with Harvey's oversized anthology format for the period.
- Named stories confirmed in the issue include 'Snobsdale' (Richie and Gloria visit an elitist town; Richie ultimately returns ancestral land to Native Americans), 'Busy Kids' (Richie invests in a lemonade stand), 'Little Dot and the Wishing Well,' 'Tough To Be Normal' (Lotta wishes she were an ordinary girl), 'The Moon Maiden' (Lotta mistaken for a space invader), and 'Uncle Brane's Instant Ray' (Dot receives a transformation device from her uncle).
- The issue carries in-house advertisement pages for fellow Harvey titles Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Wendy the Good Little Witch, Sad Sack, and Casper the Friendly Ghost — accounting for those characters' presence in the catalog index without them appearing in story content.
- A Cheerios advertisement featuring Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose — Jay Ward Productions characters licensed for General Mills promotions — appears in the issue, explaining those characters' catalog index entries.
- Multiple stories from this issue were later reprinted within the Harvey line, including in Richie Rich Inventions #2 (May 1978) and in Wendy the Good Little Witch #46 (February 1968) and Wendy Witch World #29 (June 1969).
- A story appearing in this issue was later selected for Dark Horse's Harvey Comics Classics vol. 2 (October 2007), part of a series collecting historically significant Harvey material.
- No individual writer or penciler credits are recorded for this issue in Grand Comics Database, consistent with Harvey's standard house-style, uncredited publishing practice of the era; the creative pool for the Richie Rich titles at this time included writers Sid Jacobson and Lennie Herman and artists Warren Kremer, Sid Couchey, and Steve Muffatti.
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Richie's Uncle Bright gives him an experimental car which can transform into many configurations. When crooks try to steal it, they get more than they bargained for.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).