But...the crack. The crack! Few comics ever had as much crack as Richie Rich. The WTF inventions (like Reggie Van Dough's "sneer machine"). Richie and Cadbury stopping crooks by dropping a giant cake on their helicopter blade ("Where were you when the cake hit the fan?", says the henchman to his boss. No joke--I couldn't stop laughing.) The Richie Rich/Jackie Jokers film/TV parodies (in their Star Wars send-up, Obi-Wan randomly asks Vader, "Do your men know your middle name is Cecil?").
In short, I loved loved LOVED Richie Rich as a kid because even then I could appreciate crack when I saw it. I've never seen it as some sort of sinister propaganda book promoting unrestrained capitalism or whatever. As I commented in a previous Harvey post, I was a damn fool to throw out those comics later on. (The examples I quoted above are all from memories of 25-30 years ago.)