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| - Harvey Comics is an American comic strips founder in 1941 until 1994.
- Harvey Comics, pretentiously known as Harvey Publications, was comprised of a series of titles that were spindled, folded, stapled, and mutilated by Bookworm Publications. The company was bought and paid for by Alfredo Harvey in 1941. By 1986, Harvey had bankrupted the business, orphaning such famous and beloved characters as Casper the Friendly Boo, Wendy the Good Little Bitch, Baby Hooey, and Sad Sack the Human Scrotum.
- Harvey Comics was a comic publisher that was founded in 1941 after the buyout of the small publisher Brookwood Publications. Harvey Comics was sold to HMH Communications in 1989, and ceased operations in 1994. The rights to the Harvey Comics name and its original characters were sold to Classic Media in 2001, and Classic Media was sold to DreamWorks Animation in 2012.
- 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 comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey joined soon after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output. Their most prolific artist was Warren Kremer. It was known for characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost and Richie Rich. It went out of business in 1994.
- Harvey's mascot is "Joker," a harlequin jack-in-the-box character reminiscent of the mascot/logo for Paramount Pictures/Famous Studios' Noveltoons series of animated cartoons of the 1940s-1960s.
- Harvey Comics was founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after he bought out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers, Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey, joined soon after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s became the bulk of their output. The artist Warren Kremer is closely associated with the publisher.
- The bankruptcy was a result of the children's comic book market drying up and being a victim of the ill-conceived "speculator boom" of the 1990s, where publishers would produce variant covers of issues in the hopes they would be more valuable to collectors, resulting in a lot of comics never being sold. While the company no longer exists, it is still fondly remembered by Baby Boomers and fans who reminisce of a more innocent time in comic books and some of its properties are now owned by Dreamworks Animation.
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| - Harvey Comics was founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after he bought out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers, Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey, joined soon after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s became the bulk of their output. The artist Warren Kremer is closely associated with the publisher. Harvey Comics initially published comic books featuring characters it inherited from Brookwood Publications, including both original characters and such licensed characters as the Green Hornet and Joe Palooka. The company ultimately became best known for characters it published in comics from the 1950s onward, particularly those it licensed from the animation company Famous Studios, a division of Paramount Pictures, in the late 1940s and early 1950s. These include Little Audrey, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Baby Huey and Herman and Katnip. Harvey also licensed popular characters from newspaper comic strips, such as Mutt and Jeff and Sad Sack. In addition, Harvey developed such original properties as Richie Rich, Little Dot and Little Lotta. 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, children's comics were the bulk of its output. On July 27, 1958, Harvey purchased the entire Famous line (including character rights and rights to the animated shorts). 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. Casper the Friendly Ghost, who had been Famous' most popular original character, now became Harvey's top draw. Associated characters such as Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, The Ghostly Trio, Casper's horse Nightmare, Hot Stuff the Little Devil and Wendy the Good Little Witch, were added to the Harvey line. Harvey suspended publication in July 1982 after one of the Harvey brothers passed away. There were issues scheduled to be released through August 5 that year, but only one week of issues were released on July 8, 1982, although two previously unreleased issues originally scheduled for release in June 1982 were released in September 1982, but with completely new advertisements, including one designed to promote The Pac-Man/Little Rascals/Richie Rich Show, which premiered on ABC later that month. In July 1986, the last surviving Harvey brother gave the company a second life as a sole proprietorship. However, the vast majority of titles from 1982 were dropped in 1986, and new digest titles debuted. By 1992, Harvey had purchased the rights to use the Hanna-Barbera characters for a series of reprints originally published by Charlton Comics. However, the last surviving owner of the company fell ill in 1994, and died by August 1994, thus resulting in the company's demise (four months before the release of the movie adaptation of Richie Rich, which starred Macaulay Culkin). In 1995, the Harvey properties were purchased by Marvel Comics. The rights to Richie Rich and Casper characters were acquired by Ape Entertainment, and a new series of comics was launched in 2011 but lasted only a short time.
- Harvey Comics is an American comic strips founder in 1941 until 1994.
- Harvey Comics, pretentiously known as Harvey Publications, was comprised of a series of titles that were spindled, folded, stapled, and mutilated by Bookworm Publications. The company was bought and paid for by Alfredo Harvey in 1941. By 1986, Harvey had bankrupted the business, orphaning such famous and beloved characters as Casper the Friendly Boo, Wendy the Good Little Bitch, Baby Hooey, and Sad Sack the Human Scrotum.
- Harvey Comics was a comic publisher that was founded in 1941 after the buyout of the small publisher Brookwood Publications. Harvey Comics was sold to HMH Communications in 1989, and ceased operations in 1994. The rights to the Harvey Comics name and its original characters were sold to Classic Media in 2001, and Classic Media was sold to DreamWorks Animation in 2012.
- 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 comic book publisher, founded in New York City by Alfred Harvey in 1941, after buying out the small publisher Brookwood Publications. His brothers Robert B. Harvey and Leon Harvey joined soon after. The company soon got into licensed characters, which by the 1950s, became the bulk of their output. Their most prolific artist was Warren Kremer. It was known for characters such as Casper the Friendly Ghost and Richie Rich. It went out of business in 1994.
- Harvey's mascot is "Joker," a harlequin jack-in-the-box character reminiscent of the mascot/logo for Paramount Pictures/Famous Studios' Noveltoons series of animated cartoons of the 1940s-1960s.
- The bankruptcy was a result of the children's comic book market drying up and being a victim of the ill-conceived "speculator boom" of the 1990s, where publishers would produce variant covers of issues in the hopes they would be more valuable to collectors, resulting in a lot of comics never being sold. While the company no longer exists, it is still fondly remembered by Baby Boomers and fans who reminisce of a more innocent time in comic books and some of its properties are now owned by Dreamworks Animation. In 1993 and early 1994, Harvey produced 8 issues of an Ultraman comic based on the TV series Ultraman: Towards the Future, but Harvey went bankrupt before they could make more issues under their imprints Ultracomics and Nemesis.
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