Harvey Comics was an American comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications.
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17 Facts About Harvey Comics
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Harvey Comics soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output.
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Harvey Comics was the mascot of the cartoon shorts series Noveltoons which brought to life many Harvey Comics characters and appeared as a cameo in the ending scene of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, alongside many other famous cartoon characters.
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Harvey Comics was founded by the Harvey brothers—Alfred, Leon and Robert—in the 1940s after first acquiring an existing—faltering—title from Brookwood Publications, Speed Comics.
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Harvey Comics added additional titles, such that most of their titles were licensed.
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Harvey Comics licensed popular characters from newspaper comic strips, such as Mutt and Jeff and Sad Sack.
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The Famous cartoons were repackaged and distributed to television as Harveytoons, and Harvey continued production on new comics and a handful of new cartoons produced for television.
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Harvey Comics sued Star for copyright infringement, claiming that Roy was a blatant copy of Richie Rich.
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In 1986, Harvey Comics resumed publication under the leadership of Alan Harvey Comics, focusing on a few core titles, digests, and reprints.
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In 1987, Harvey Comics sued Columbia Pictures, for $50 million, claiming that the Ghostbusters logo used in the 1984 film was too reminiscent of Fatso from the Casper series.
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In 1989, Harvey Comics was sold to Jeffrey Montgomery's HMH Communications, located in Santa Monica, California.
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Montgomery struck a publishing and distribution deal with Marvel Harvey Comics, which led Marvel to publish Casper titles, including an adaptation of the 1995 live-action Casper movie.
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In 2000, Harvey Comics bought out PM Entertainment, a home video and film distributor, and after selling it to Classic Media, Roger Burlage held on to PM.
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In late 2000, Alan Harvey Comics sued Steve Geppi over his 1984 acquisition of the Sad Sack original art, charging that Geppi had plundered Harvey Comics's warehouses.
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Universal Studios, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound features through its television division, once held video rights to the Harvey Comics-owned cartoons, until 2001 when Classic Media obtained the animated catalog.
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In 2016, rights to the Harvey Comics properties returned to Universal when they acquired Classic Media's parent company, DreamWorks Animation.
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