Harvey Comics facts for kids
Harvey Comics 1959–1982 logo
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Harvey Publications |
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| Industry | Comic books |
| Predecessor | Brookwood Publications |
| Successor | The Harvey Entertainment Group |
| Founded | 1941 |
| Founder | Alfred Harvey |
| Defunct | 1994 |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Owner | Comcast |
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. 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 is closely associated with the publisher.
Harvey's mascot is "Joker", a harlequin jack-in-the-box character.
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Distribution of cartoons
For years, the television distribution rights to the Harveytoons library were licensed to Worldvision Enterprises. Worldvision would hold distribution rights to many earlier Famous Studios cartoons (plus most of the cartoons by Fleischer Studios) for a short time, until being absorbed by the television division of Paramount Pictures, which originally distributed the cartoons.
Universal Studios, 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, DreamWorks Animation. In 2018, Netflix began airing Harvey Street Kids (later renamed Harvey Girls Forever!), produced by DreamWorks Animation and based on Harvey Comics characters, the series ended in 2020.
Harvey characters
Harvey Girls
Casper and his friends
- Casper the Friendly Ghost
- Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost
- Pearl ("Poil") (Spooky's girlfriend)
- The Ghostly Trio: Stretch, Fatso and Stinkie (Casper's uncles) (Originally has Lazo and Fusso)
- Nightmare the Galloping Ghost (Casper's horse)
- Hot Stuff the Little Devil
- Aunt Clinker (Hot Stuff's aunt)
- Wendy the Good Little Witch
- Little Lulu the Friendly Female Ghost (From the cartoon: "Casper – To Boo or Not to Boo 1951")
- Witch Sisters: Thelma, Velma and Zelma (Wendy'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)
- Freckles and Pee-Wee (Richie Rich's best friends)
- Jackie Jokers the Clown Prince of Show Biz
- Billy Bellhops
- Timmy Time
Other characters
- Baby Huey
- Boys' Ranch (created and owned by
Joe Simon and Jack Kirby) - Bunny (teen girl)
- Buzzy the Crow
- The Cowsills (based on the rock group)
- Felix the Cat
- Flat-Top
- Herman and Katnip
- Mama Duck (Baby Huey's mother)
- Mazie
- Melvin (Little Audrey's boyfriend)
- Modern Madcaps (assorted characters)
- Mutt and Jeff
- New Kids on the Block (based on the boy band)
- Papa Duck (Baby Huey's father)
- Rags Rabbit
- Sad Sack
- Stumbo the Giant
- Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare
Harvey superheroes
Golden Age
- Black Cat (Owned by the Harvey estate)
- Black Orchid
- Blazing Scarab
- Blonde Bomber
- Captain 3-D (owned by Simon and Kirby)
- Captain Freedom
- Clown
- Firebrand
- Fly-Man (created by Sam Glanzman)
- Girl Commandoes
- Shock Gibson
- Barry Kuda
- Human Meteor
- Neptina
- Night Hawk
- Pat Parker
- Phantom Sphinx
- Red Blazer
- Red Demon
- Scarlet Arrow
- Scarlet Nemesis
- Scarlet Phantom
- Spirit of '76
- Spitfire (Mahon)
- Stuntman (owned by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby)
- White Mask
- Zebra
Silver Age (Harvey Thriller)
- Bee-Man
- Captain Flower
- Fighting American (A revival of the Prize Comics character, owned by Joe Simon & Jack Kirby)
- Fruitman (owned by Warren Harvey)
- Glowing Gladiator
- Jack Q. Frost
- Jigsaw (owned by Joe Simon)
- Magic Master
- Man in Black
- Miracles, Inc
- Pirana (owned by Joe Simon)
- Sooper Hippie
- Spyman (owned by Joe Simon)
- Tiger Boy (owned by Joe Simon)
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