Richie Rich, Casper and Wendy, Sad Sack, Little Dot

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Remember the comic books that weren't about superheroes? Mostly the Harvey comics with other characters like Hot Stuff the Little Devil or Little Lotta (the large girl). Sometimes you just didn't feel like Batman or Superman and wanted to see what shenanagins the Ghostly Trio was up to

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RolandOfGilead@reddit

I had so many Richie Rich and Sad Sack comics. I was mostly into Marvel, but at my comic shop the junk Harvey comics were usually 10 cents while the Marvels were more so sometimes I just grabbed a bunch of the kids books and they were fun in their own way. There was a Richie Rich story about he and Reggie fighting in these flying car like things and I ended up turning it into my own story about mind controlled kids fighting WWIII. At one point my second in command was Admiral Ackbar. Also, I always wanted a Battle of the Butlers between Jarvis, Alfred, and Cadbury.

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captkirkseviltwin@reddit

My local barber (that my parents made me go to before I started going to a hair stylist) always had these worn down, half torn up, old Harvey and Archie comics for kids to read - the SAME ones, all the time, no Marvel or DC because those were “too violent.” Couldn’t STAND those things eventually.

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Keefer1970@reddit

Some of the first comics I read as a kid were Richie Rich and Sad Sack.

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MyriVerse2@reddit

I liked Richie Rich, but not the rest of Harvey Comics.

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juliemoo88@reddit

I was never a big fan of Richie Rich, Wendy, etc. Even as a little kid, the stories and jokes seemed juvenile. But I loved Archie and the gang. As an adult, I got my friend's daughter hooked onto their adventures.

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EnthusiasmIll2046@reddit

I *hated* these comics, and especially Archie, with a fucking passion. Ugh.

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Haselrig@reddit

Little Iodine. Scrooge McDuck.

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fwvb@reddit

i loved them all. i had a casper doll.

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InfiniteMonki@reddit

Bart: Well, you know what I think? I think Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich.

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lawstandaloan@reddit (OP)

Hmm, they do have suspiciously similar shaped heads

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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr@reddit

I was huge into Richie Rich as a kid. I couldn't get enough of those comics. I remember one time a bookstore had a bunch of old ones for a quarter each, and my folks gave me ten dollars. That was a happy day. I felt like I made out like a bandit. Casper was all right, but I never got much into the others. Little Dot was too limited as a character. And I was also big into Beetle Bailey paperbacks. I could never vibe with Sad Sack.

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aogamerdude@reddit

Those of us who could, were into him & the rest you said. Man I've always thought they did the movie wrong & should've just waited to get it out with cgi.

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Jack_Q_Frost_Jr@reddit

Yeah, you definitely could never have a real kid dress like Richie and not have it look ridiculous. But Richie Rich should look like Richie Rich, and his clothes and body proportions are part of his look. It would be great if there was a CGI Richie Rich movie that could capture the look of the comics.

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coolcoinsdotcom@reddit

I read pretty much all of them at the time, but never the superhero ones. Don’t know why. At this moment I still have a few hundred Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and similar comics in my closet. All packed up in bags and boards. Not sure why I’ve been keeping them for over 40 years, but here we are!

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Genius-Imbecile@reddit

You just gonna forget about Archie like that?

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lawstandaloan@reddit (OP)

I think Archie is on a different level than Sad Sack and Little Lotta. Like, Archie is an A list celebrity but Wendy, the good little witch, is more like a D list celebrity. Archie would plug his new issue on the Tonight show but Little Dot would be shilling on your local news morning show.