13 Facts About Harvey Publications

Harvey Publications soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output.

Harvey Publications 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.

Harvey Publications added more anthologies, including Champion Comics and Pocket Comics.

Harvey Publications began a shift to licensed characters when in 1942 it took over as the radio hero Green Hornet's publisher from Holyoke after six issues.

Harvey Publications added additional titles, such that most of their titles were licensed.

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Harvey Publications licensed popular characters from newspaper comic strips, such as Mutt and Jeff and Sad Sack.

Harvey Publications sued Star for copyright infringement, claiming that Roy was a blatant copy of Richie Rich.

In 1986, Harvey Publications resumed publication under the leadership of Alan Harvey Publications, focusing on a few core titles, digests, and reprints.

In 1987, Harvey Publications 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.

In 1989, Harvey Publications was sold to Jeffrey Montgomery's HMH Communications, located in Santa Monica, California.

In 2000, Harvey Publications bought out PM Entertainment, a home video and film distributor, and after selling it to Classic Media, Roger Burlage held on to PM.

In late 2000, Alan Harvey Publications sued Steve Geppi over his 1984 acquisition of the Sad Sack original art, charging that Geppi had plundered Harvey Publications's warehouses.

Universal Studios, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound features through its television division, once held video rights to the Harvey Publications-owned cartoons, until 2001 when Classic Media obtained the animated catalog.