Richie Rich Success: Museum Object and Cultural History
Richie Rich Success: date made: 1973. date made: October, 1973. Object Name: Comic.
The object in the museum catalogue
“Richie Rich Success” : This comic contains several short stories on the adventures of Richie Rich and his friends. The cover shows Richie Rich, dressed in a black and white suit with a red bowtie, discovering money that is enclosed in a fortune cookie. The backdrop is an Asian server dressed in a silver suit with a black bowtie, and behind him is a circular wall decoration with a black writing in the center that seems to resemble a Chinese character. In the first story, Richie Rich is on a quest to find a missing pearl for his mother’s necklace. He takes a jet to a “certain South Sea Island” with his chauffer Cadbury, and brings home a pearl hours later. Here, fortune cookies and pearls are used as a tie to a “certain South Sea Island”, though this island’s identity remains obscure.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1973
- date made: October, 1973
- Object Name: Comic
- Object Name: comic
- Object Name: comic book
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 10 1/4 in x 6 7/8 in x 1/8 in; 26.035 cm x 17.4625 cm x .3175 cm
- ID Number: 2012.3057.02
- nonaccession number: 2012.3057
- catalog number: 2012.3057.02
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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