When Ernie Colòn illustrated a Richie Rich story, readers could expect one thing in spades: Adventure! In a Colòn story, Rich became a genius boy inventor fighting crime; and Richie's butler, Cadbury, became a dashing man of action. What great stuff! This three-chapter story is from Richie Rich Success Stories No. 10, October 1966.After reading this great tale, hyperlink over to Bill White Cartoons; the blog of pal and cartoonist, Bill White; wherein Mr. White talks about meeting Ernie Colòn recently at the 2011 New York Comic Con!
This is the first I've heard of Ernie Colon. He's great! Though I have to say that I find the 3-fingered hands a bit strange on the relatively realistic adults.
ReplyDeleteDavid: Ernie Colon drew all the the Harvey characters, but his RR stories were the best RR stories ever!
ReplyDeleteThree fingers, well, you really can't draw a Harvey character any other way!
Hilarious stuff, Mykal, and weird synchronicity too, since I'm plugging Colón's Inner Sanctum today over at the Catacombs.
ReplyDeleteWho cares how many fingers the characters have when the art is this gorgeous?! Sheesh!
ReplyDeleteAs great as Warren Kremer was (and he WAS!), nobody, but nobody, could match Ernie Colon when it came to RR adventure stories!
Chuck: I'll have to hop on over to your place, The Comic Book Catacombs, and have a look!
ReplyDeleteBill: I completely agree: Colon is King when it comes to RR!
I like his flatter-head version of RR. He looks more adorable.
ReplyDeleteSome nice work. I never was a fan of Ernie Colon's work for Warren and other horror/adventure comic books, but his cartooning is first-rate.
ReplyDeleteThe best of Ernie's Richie adventures is easily in Richie Rich Diamonds #4 where Richie encounters a mean and creepy witch named Walla.
ReplyDeleteI scanned my copy of it and posted it in my (now archived) blog.
You can read it here.
Larry T: Excellent. Thanks for the link. The more of Mr. Colòn's work there is to see, the better I like it.
ReplyDeleteKW: I agree. I think Colòn's RR had the most character.
ReplyDeleteGary: I first rate cartoonist indeed!
Wow! This looks VERY close to what I'm looking for. When I was a kid, I had a stack of Richie Rich comics. There was one story, where Richie went up against a tall, bald Captain Manta, who hijacked a cruise ship. The artwork looked very similar to the stories above, so it was probably Ernie Colon. Can someone help to identify the title and issue number for the Captain manta story?
ReplyDeleteI used to have a huge stack of Harvey Comics back in the late 60's and early 70's. There was an adventure story of Richie Rich versus Captain Manta, a tall, bald man in a white captain's uniform who hijacked a cruise ship. I remember the artwork looking very much like the stories shown above.
ReplyDeleteCan you help me in identifying which Richie Rich comic had the Captain Manta story?
Unknown and ZMOQ: The Manta stories you are talking about (Mutiny on the Oceanic, The Manta's Menace, and When Pirates Walk the Plank); all come from Richie Rich Success Stories No. 23, January 1969. These stories were indeed the work of Ernie Colon and are some of the best work he ever did for Harvey. They are certainly my favorite Richie Rich story cycle (among so many). These stories can be found in the wonderful Dark Horse Collection "Harvey Comics Classics Volume Two: Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy." Great, great stuff.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for the answer! It's funny how I remember that story, and some of the art panels, even though I have not seen that comic book in almost 40 years! I gave away my kids comics to some kids when I was a teen. That story stuck in my mind.
ReplyDeleteI was having a conversation with our administrative admin at work (she's 27). For her, it was really hard to comprehend a childhood with one TV in the house, one phone, no cable TV, no video games, no computers. I explained that we went outside, we made up stories involving our toys as main characters, we drew, we did crafts and hobbies, and we read comic books, over and over. And somehow, we never felt like we had deprived childhoods!
Does that Harvey Comics classics book REALLY sell for $750 in Amazon.com, or $188 used???
Yep, no kidding. Those older Harvey comics (that issue in particular) go for a sweet price. Try that Dark Horse collection I mentioned. It's wonderful, plus it has a great interview with Colon into the bargain.
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