Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics, Harvey Publications, Harvey Comics Entertainment, Harvey Hits, Harvey Illustrated Humor, and Harvey Picture Magazines) was an American

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, founded in

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Alfred Harvey Alfred Harvey (born Alfred Harvey Wiernikoff; October 6, 1913 – July 4, 1994), was the founder of comic book publisher Harvey Comics and the creator of the comic book characters Little Dot, Richie Rich (comics), Richie Rich, and Adam Awards (com ...

in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers, Robert B. and Leon Harvey, joined shortly after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output. The artist

Warren Kremer Warren Kremer (June 26, 1921 – July 24, 2003)Warren Kremer
at the Casper the Friendly Ghost Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a pleasant, personable and translucent ghost, but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio. The ...

and Richie Rich. Harvey's

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is named Joker, a

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character. He was also the mascot of the cartoon shorts series '' Noveltoons'' which brought to life many Harvey Comics characters and also appeared as a cameo in the ending scene of the film ''

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'', alongside many other famous cartoon characters.

History

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''. The title's headliners were Shock Gibson and Captain Freedom, a patriotic hero like The Shield. Harvey added more anthologies, including Champion Comics and Pocket Comics. From the new titles only one would stay around for a while: The Black Cat, a Hollywood starlet-superhero, which was published into the 1950s. Harvey 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 added additional titles, such that most of their titles were licensed. Licensed characters included Joe Palooka, Blondie,

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, and other newspaper strip characters. The company ultimately became best known for characters it published in comics from 1950s onward, particularly those it licensed from the animation company

Famous Studios Famous Studios (renamed Paramount Cartoon Studios in 1956) was the first animation division of the film studio Paramount Pictures from 1942 to 1967. Famous was founded as a successor company to Fleischer Studios, after Paramount seized contro ...

, a unit of

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, starting in 1951. These include Little Audrey,

Casper the Friendly Ghost Casper the Friendly Ghost is the protagonist of the Famous Studios theatrical animated cartoon series of the same name. He is a pleasant, personable and translucent ghost, but often criticized by his three wicked uncles, the Ghostly Trio. The ...

Baby Huey Baby Huey is a gigantic and naïve duckling cartoon character. He was created by Martin Taras for Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios, and became a Paramount cartoon star during the 1950s. Huey first appeared in ''Quack-a-Doodle-Doo'', a ''Novel ...

, and Herman and Katnip. Harvey also licensed popular characters from newspaper

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, such as ''

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'' and ''

Sad Sack ''Sad Sack'' is an American comic strip and comic book character created by Sgt. George Baker during World War II. Set in the United States Army, ''Sad Sack'' depicted an otherwise unnamed, lowly private experiencing some of the absurdities and ...

''. In addition, Harvey developed such original properties as Richie Rich, Little Dot and

Little Lotta Little Lotta is a fictional character published by Harvey Comics from 1953 to 1972, and then sporadically until 1993. A contemporary of Little Audrey, Little Dot and Wendy the Good Little Witch, she was one of Harvey's best-known female characters ...

. While the company tried to diversify the comics it published, with brief forays in the 1950s and 1960s into superhero, suspense, horror, western and other forms in such imprints as Harvey Thriller and Thrill Adventure,

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were the bulk of its output. On July 27, 1958, Harvey purchased the October 1950 – March 1962 Famous Studio cartoons (including character rights and rights to the cartoon shorts, but excluding

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as Harveytoons, and Harvey continued production on new comics and a handful of new cartoons produced for television.

, who had been Famous' most popular original character, now became Harvey's top draw. Associated characters such as

Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost is a fictional character that appeared in titles published by Harvey Comics. Spooky first appeared in ''Casper the Friendly Ghost'' #10 (June 1953). He is Casper's cousin, although their exact relation is never specif ...

, The

Ghostly Trio The Ghostly Trio (consisting of Stretch, Fatso, and Stinkie, formerly Fatso, Fusso, and Lazo) are fictional characters appearing in Harvey Comics. They are well known for being the uncles of Casper the Friendly Ghost. Their first animated appearan ...

, Casper's horse Nightmare,

Hot Stuff the Little Devil Hot Stuff the Little Devil is a comic book character created by Warren Kremer who first appeared in ''Hot Stuff'' #1 (October 1957), published by Harvey Comics. Imbued with a mischievous personality and able to produce fire, Hot Stuff appears as ...

, and

Wendy the Good Little Witch Wendy the Good Little Witch is a fictional comic book character from Harvey Comics. Like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Wendy is an opposite-type character, a girl witch who does good deeds. Publication history Wendy ...

were added to the Harvey line.

1980s decline and sale

By the early 1980s,

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was in negotiations with Harvey Comics to assume publication of some of their characters. Harvey editor

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, along with the other Harvey staff, were interviewed by Mike Hobson, Marvel's group vice-president of publishing (de facto publisher). As part of the process, Jacobson created several new characters which were well received by Hobson and effectively sealed the deal. Marvel Editor-in-Chief

Jim Shooter James Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is an American writer, editor and publisher for various comic books. He started professionally in the medium at the age of 14, and he is most notable for his successful and controversial run as Marvel Comic ...

appointed editor

Tom DeFalco Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor well known for his association with Marvel Comics, with long runs on ''Amazing Spider-Man'', ''Thor'', and ''Fantastic Four''. Career While in college, DeFalco "wrote fo ...

as executive editor to coordinate with the Harvey staff, who were hired by Marvel. On the day Marvel was set to take over the Harvey publications, Harvey Comics pulled out of the deal due to an internal disagreement among the two remaining Harvey brothers, Alfred and Leon. Harvey would cease publishing its comics in

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. In summer 1984,

Steve Geppi Stephen A. Geppi (born January 24, 1950) is an American comic book distributor, publisher and former comic store owner. Having established an early chain of comic shops in Baltimore in the mid-late 1970s, he is best known for his distributing busi ...

(owner of

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and Geppi's Comic World) paid $50,000 for, among other properties, Harvey's entire archive of original art from the Harvey comic ''

''. Geppi made this agreement with

Steve Harvey Broderick Stephen Harvey Sr. Also aired August 16, 2015. (born January 17, 1957) is an American television host, producer, actor, and comedian. He hosts ''The Steve Harvey Morning Show'', ''Family Feud'', '' Celebrity Family Feud,'' the Miss U ...

, who at the time was president of Harvey Publications Inc., as well as president of Sad Sack Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvey Publications, Inc."Newswatch: Geppi: I Had Legal Title to Both the Pre and Post-1955 Harvey Original Art," ''The Comics Journal'' #229 (December 2000), pp. 7–8. In 1985 the Marvel imprint

Star Comics Star Comics was an imprint of Marvel Comics that began in 1984 and featured titles that were aimed at child readers and were often adaptations of children's television series, animated series or toys. The last comic published under the imprint ...

published a title called '' Royal Roy''. Harvey sued Star for copyright infringement, claiming that Roy was a blatant copy of Richie Rich. (Veteran Harvey writer-artist Lennie Herman had created ''Royal Roy'' for Star Comics. Herman died in 1983 before the first issue of ''Royal Roy'' was published.) The ''Royal Roy'' comic ended after six issues and the lawsuit was dropped. In 1986, Harvey resumed publication under the leadership of Alan Harvey (Alfred's oldest son), focusing on a few core titles,

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, and reprints. In 1987, Harvey sued

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, for $50 million, claiming that the

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logo used in the 1984 film was too reminiscent of Fatso from the Casper series. The court ruled in Columbia's favor, due to Harvey's failure to renew the copyrights on early Casper stories and the "limited ways to draw a figure of a cartoon ghost".

Harvey Comics Entertainment

In 1989, Harvey was sold to Jeffrey Montgomery's HMH Communications, located in

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. It was renamed Harvey Comics Entertainment (HCE), publishing reprints in the early 1990s as ''Harvey Classics''. In 1993 the company created two imprints, Nemesis Comics and Ultracomics, to publish

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comics, as well as a couple of other titles. In 1994 Marvel took over publishing and distribution for HCE. In addition, Montgomery himself began selling a package of older cartoons featuring the characters Harvey had purchased from Paramount to local stations. With

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serving as his distributor, Montgomery launched ''Casper & Friends'' in 1990. After the rerun package was pulled in 1994, Montgomery teamed with Carbunkle Cartoons and Film Roman respectively for two new animated series based on Harvey properties. The first, produced by Carbunkle and launching in 1994, featured

and the second, produced by Film Roman, was a new Richie Rich cartoon launched in 1996; a previous series had been done without Harvey's involvement other than licensing the character to

Hanna-Barbera Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc. ( ) was an American animation studio and production company which was active from 1957 to 2001. It was founded on July 7, 1957, by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera following the decision of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to c ...

. During this period, Montgomery sold 20% of the company to

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, parent company of

Universal Studios Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...

for $3 million. (Universal licensed the characters for use in its theme parks.) Montgomery also optioned Richie Rich and Casper for two feature films: '' Richie Rich'' was released in 1994 and was a financial flop, while ''

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'', which was released the following year, became a massive hit. Montgomery also struck a publishing and distribution deal with

, which led Marvel to publish Casper titles, including an adaptation of the 1995 live-action Casper movie. Two issues of an ongoing Casper title were published in May 1997, followed by the short-lived ''Casper and Friends Magazine'' (May–July 1997).

Sunland Entertainment

Montgomery was ousted from HCE in 1997, and in 2001, the company sold its Harvey properties and rights to the Harvey name to

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. HCE was renamed Sunland Entertainment Co. Sunland produced additional films and distribute its library of 150 films and 60 television episodes. In 2000, Harvey bought out

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, a home video and film distributor, and after selling it to

, Roger Burlage held on to PM. The rights to

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, and certain other Harvey characters are still owned by Alan Harvey, and have been published under the names of Lorne-Harvey Publications and Re-Collections. In late 2000, Alan Harvey sued Steve Geppi over his 1984 acquisition of the ''Sad Sack'' original art, charging that Geppi had plundered Harvey's warehouses. Geppi countersued, claiming that he had legal title to the original art. The suit was settled in late 2002; at the time of the settlement, the

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had dismissed Harvey's claims against Geppi. The settlement agreement allowed Geppi to keep the art, with no money changing hands."Geppi and Harvey Settle Suit Over Sad Sack Art,"
ICv2.com (June 19, 2002).

Distribution of cartoons

For years, the television distribution rights to the ''Harveytoons'' library were licensed to

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. Worldvision would hold distribution rights to many earlier

cartoons (plus most of the cartoons by

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) for a short time, until being absorbed by the television division of

, which originally distributed the cartoons.

, which owns the pre-1950 Paramount sound features through its television division, once held video rights to the Harvey-owned cartoons, until 2001 when Classic Media obtained the animated catalog. In 2016, rights to the Harvey Comics properties returned to Universal when they acquired Classic Media's parent company,

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. In 2018,

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began airing ''Harvey Street Kids'' (later renamed ''

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''), produced by DreamWorks Animation and based on Harvey Comics characters, the series ended in 2020.

Harvey characters

Harvey Girls

* Little Audrey * Little Dot *

Casper and his friends

* Pearl ("Poil") (Spooky's girlfriend) * The

: Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie (

's uncles) (Originally has Lazo and Fusso) * Nightmare the Galloping Ghost (Casper's horse) *

* Princess Charma (Hot Stuff’s girlfriend) * Aunt Clinker ( Hot Stuff's aunt) *

* Witch Sisters: Thelma, Velma and Zelma (

Wendy Wendy is a given name now generally given to girls in English-speaking countries. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a masculine name in a parish record in 1615. It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. Its popularity ...

's aunts)

Richie Rich and his friends

* Richie Rich, the Poor Little Rich Boy * Reginald "Reggie" Van Dough Jr. ( Richie Rich's antagonistic cousin) * Cadbury ( Richie Rich's butler) * Mr. Rich ( Richie Rich's father) * Mrs. Rich ( Richie Rich's mother) * Mayda Munny * Gloria Glad * Irona ( Richie Rich's robot maid) * Dollar ( Richie Rich's dog) * Freckles and Pee-Wee ( Richie Rich's best friends) *

Jackie Jokers Jackie Jokers is a supporting character of the '' Richie Rich'' comic book franchise from Harvey Comics. He is marked by a black bowl haircut. He debuted in 1973, in his own eponymous title, before being canceled and replaced by the title ''Richi ...

the Clown Prince of Show Biz * Billy Bellhops * Timmy Time * Gloria ( Richie Rich's girlfriend)

Other characters

Boys' Ranch ''Boys' Ranch'' was a six-issue American comic book series created by the veteran writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby for Harvey Comics in 1950. A Western in the then-prevalent "kid gang" vein popularized by such film series as "Our ...

(created and owned by

Joe Simon Joseph Henry Simon (October 11, 1913 – December 14, 2011) was an American comic book writer, artist, editor, and publisher. Simon created or co-created many important characters in the 1930s–1940s Golden Age of Comic Books and served as the ...

and

Jack Kirby Jack Kirby (born Jacob Kurtzberg; August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994) was an American comic book artist, writer and editor, widely regarded as one of the medium's major innovators and one of its most prolific and influential creators. He gr ...

) *

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(teen girl) * Buzzy the CrowBuzzy the Crow
at

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Archived
from the original on April 5, 2015. *

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(based on the rock group) * Flat-Top * Herman and Katnip * Mama Duck (Baby Huey's mother) * Mazie * Melvin (Little Audrey's boyfriend) *

Modern Madcaps ''Modern Madcaps'' is an animated film series produced by Paramount Pictures' Famous Studios animation division between the years 1958 and 1967. The series featured assorted characters that later became part of the Harvey Comics Harvey Comic ...

(assorted characters) *

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(based on the boy band) * Papa Duck (Baby Huey's father) * Rags Rabbit *

* Stumbo the Giant * Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare

Harvey superheroes

Golden Age

(Owned by the Harvey estate, not to be confused with the Marvel Comics character of the same name) * Black Orchid (Not to be confused with the DC Comics character of the same name) * Blazing Scarab * Blonde Bomber * Captain 3-D (owned by Simon and Kirby) * Captain Freedom *

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* Firebrand (Not to be confused with the DC Comics character of the same name) * Fly-Man (created by

Sam Glanzman Samuel Joseph Glanzman (December 5, 1924 – July 12, 2017) was an American comics artist and memoirist. Glanzman is best known for his Charlton Comics series ''Hercules'', about the mythological Greek demigod; his autobiographical war stories abo ...

) * Girl Commandoes A multinational team of women soldiers consisting of two American (Captain Pat Parker aka War Nurse and Penelope "Penny" Kirk), one British (Lieutenant Ellen Billing), one Russian (Tanya) and one Chinese (Mei Ling) introduced in Harvey's Speed Comics. They were portraited fighting Nazi and Japanese soldiers in World War II. * Shock Gibson * Barry Kuda * Human Meteor * Neptina * Night Hawk * Pat Parker * Phantom Sphinx * Red Blazer * Red Demon * Scarlet Arrow * Scarlet Nemesis * Scarlet Phantom *

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* Spitfire (Mahon) * Stuntman (owned by

) * White Mask *

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Silver Age (Harvey Thriller)

Bee-Man Bee-Man is a fictional character, fictional superhero in comic books published by Harvey Comics, who briefly first appeared, appeared during the period historians and fans call the Silver Age of Comics, Silver Age of Comic Books. He was created by ...

* Captain Flower *

Fighting American Fighting American is a superhero created in 1954 by the writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Published by the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics, it was, contrary to standard industry practices of the time, creator-owned. Harv ...

(A revival of the

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character, owned by

) * Fruitman (owned by Warren Harvey) * Glowing Gladiator * Jack Q. Frost *

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(owned by

) * Magic Master * Man in Black * Miracles, Inc *

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(owned by

) * Sooper Hippie * Spyman (owned by

) * Tiger Boy (owned by

)

Titles

References

External links

Toonopedia: Harvey Comics
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