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32-668: This show features Harvey Comics characters and series including: Casper the Friendly Ghost , Tommy Tortoise and Moe Hare, Baby Huey , Herman and Katnip , Buzzy the Crow , Possum Pearl, Professor Schmatlz, Jeepers and Creepers and others. The New Casper Cartoon Show and the Film Roman version of Richie Rich have also been featured on the final season of The Harveytoons Show . The show itself contained three full cartoons and one "ToonTake", an abbreviated cartoon. Jerry Beck

64-453: A $ 78,000 agreement with Harvey to produce The New Casper Cartoon Show , they also sold their pre-March 1962 library of cartoons to Harvey for $ 1. By the early 1980s, Marvel Comics was in negotiations with Harvey Comics to assume publication of some of their characters. Harvey editor Sid Jacobson , along with the other Harvey staff, were interviewed by Mike Hobson, Marvel's group vice-president of publishing (de facto publisher). As part of

96-537: 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 , Dick Tracy , 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

128-606: 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 Claster Television 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 Baby Huey and

160-419: A friend and colleague of Kremer's, had a part in getting him work at Harvey Comics, starting with freelance work in 1948. Harvey editor Sid Jacobson was frustrated by the poor design of most comics at the time. He watched animated films and wanted to know why his comics couldn't look as good. So Kremer was brought on board to bring an animation design to comics. Kremer improved the layout of the panels, creating

192-653: 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. In 1963, when Paramount entered into

224-456: A much greater depth of field. His characters were better constructed, which added mass and allowed the books to look more "real". Eventually, Kremer's influence was felt throughout the entire comic book industry. Kremer created or defined many of the most well known Harvey characters, including Casper the Ghost , Hot Stuff , Joe Palooka , Little Audrey , Little Max , Richie Rich , and Stumbo

256-515: A single DVD release titled "Hooky Spooky" containing three episodes of this series (the Casper and Friends version) was released by Right Entertainment / Universal Pictures Video in the United Kingdom. In 2006, Classic Media released 52 of the show's 78 episodes on a four-disc DVD set titled Harvey Toons – The Complete Collection . The set received mixed reviews from animation fans, and

288-808: A single disc DVD set titled Herman and Katnip: The Complete Collection . In the same year, Shout! Factory released 61 of 78 Casper cartoons from The Harveytoons Show on a three-disc DVD set titled Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection . In 2021, Universal Home Entertainment released 30 episodes on the DVD set titled The Best of the Harveytoons Show . Harvey Comics Harvey Comics (also known as Harvey World Famous Comics , Harvey Publications , Harvey Comics Entertainment , Harvey Hits , Harvey Illustrated Humor , and Harvey Picture Magazines )

320-499: A wholly owned subsidiary of Harvey Publications, Inc. In 1985 the Marvel imprint Star Comics 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

352-712: The High School of Music and Art and the School of Industrial Art in New York City . Kremer then did layout, lettering, and illustrations for pulp and aviation magazines for ten years. He gradually took on more comics work in Ace Publications , his first title being Hap Hazard . He married that title's letterer , Grace. Due to a hernia , Kremer did not serve in World War II . Steve Mufatti ,

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384-403: The Friendly Ghost and Richie Rich . Harvey's mascot is named Joker, a harlequin jack-in-the-box character. He was also the mascot of the cartoon shorts series Noveltoons which brought many Harvey Comics characters to life; he also appeared as a cameo in the ending scene of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit , alongside many other famous cartoon characters. Harvey Comics was founded by

416-683: The Giant . Kremer also excelled at realistic treatments, producing top-quality work for Harvey's romance, war, and horror genre titles. He was the top artist at Harvey, where he worked for 35 years mostly as an art editor. In addition to his regular pencilling, Kremer contributed animation storyboards , pencilled, inked and colored most of the thousands of covers for every one of Harvey's humor titles. After Harvey ended publication in 1982, Kremer created and/or drew several characters for Marvel Comics ' Star Comics line, including Count Duckula , Ewoks , Planet Terry , Royal Roy , and Top Dog . Kremer

448-459: 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 ,

480-417: The animation company Famous Studios , a unit of Paramount Pictures , starting in 1951. 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

512-478: The art, with no money changing hands. 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

544-693: 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 , who later produced Harvey Street Kids (later renamed Harvey Girls Forever! ) based on Harvey Comics characters. Warren Kremer Warren Kremer (June 26, 1921 – July 24, 2003)

576-634: 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. In July 1958, Harvey purchased the October 1950–December 1959 Famous Studios cartoons (including character rights and rights to the cartoon shorts, but excluding Popeye ). The Famous cartoons were repackaged and distributed to television as Harveytoons , and Harvey continued production on new comics and

608-506: The copyrights on early Casper stories and the "limited ways to draw a figure of a cartoon ghost". In 1989, Harvey was sold to Jeffrey Montgomery's HMH Communications, located in Santa Monica, California . 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 Ultraman comics, as well as

640-439: The final season of The Harveytoons Show . Each episode included three full cartoons and one "ToonTake" segment. This is the list of 14 theatrical Harvey-owned Famous Studios shorts and one Film Roman Richie Rich episode that were not included on the show, neither as full cartoons nor as "Toon Takes". Produced by Famous Studios : Produced by Paramount Cartoon Studios : Produced by Film Roman : In January 2005,

672-595: 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, digests , and reprints. In 1987, Harvey 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. The court ruled in Columbia's favor, due to Harvey's failure to renew

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704-610: 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 New York Supreme Court had dismissed Harvey's claims against Geppi. The settlement agreement allowed Geppi to keep

736-410: The process, Jacobson created several new characters which were well received by Hobson and effectively sealed the deal. Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter appointed editor Tom DeFalco 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

768-476: 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 . During this period, Montgomery sold 20% of the company to MCA Inc. , parent company of Universal Studios 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

800-459: The show's consultant, Jerry Beck , said Classic Media did not consult with him on making this DVD release. He stated that he would not have included the show's formatting of those cartoons, but did applaud Classic Media for the very good picture quality of the included shorts and for the set's low price tag, considering the high number of cartoons in the set. In 2011, Vivendi Entertainment and Classic Media released all Herman and Katnip cartoons on

832-406: The trimming of some cartoons was only done to help each episode fit the half-hour format, and some were excluded from the show either from oversight or because the content of those cartoons could be considered un-PC. All original television-produced shorts on the show were either from later TV cartoons featuring Casper and the Film Roman version of Richie Rich , and those were mostly featured in

864-467: The two remaining Harvey brothers, Alfred and Leon. Harvey would cease publishing its comics in 1982 . In summer 1984, Steve Geppi (owner of Diamond Comic Distributors and Geppi's Comic World ) paid $ 50,000 for, among other properties, Harvey's entire archive of original art from the Harvey comic Sad Sack . Geppi made this agreement with Steve Harvey , who at the time was president of Harvey Publications Inc., as well as president of Sad Sack Inc. ,

896-447: 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 was closely associated with the publisher. Harvey Comics' most notable characters are Casper

928-589: Was an American comics cartoonist best known for his creation of the Harvey Comics characters Richie Rich , Hot Stuff the Little Devil and Stumbo the Giant . His style is known for big, bold compositions , and a keen sense of contrast and color . Kremer was born in The Bronx , the son of a sign painter. He had a sister, Anita. Kremer counted Alex Raymond 's Flash Gordon and Hal Foster 's Prince Valiant among his influences. He attended

960-570: Was ousted from HCE in 1997, and in 2001, the company sold its Harvey properties and rights to the Harvey name to Classic Media . HCE was renamed Sunland Entertainment Co. Sunland produced additional films and distributed its library of 150 films and 60 television episodes. In 2000, Harvey bought out PM Entertainment , a home video and film distributor, and after selling it to Classic Media , Roger Burlage held on to PM. The rights to Sad Sack , Black Cat , and certain other Harvey characters are still owned by Alan Harvey, and have been published under

992-514: Was released in 1994 and was a financial flop, while Casper , which was released the following year, became a massive hit. Montgomery also struck a publishing and distribution deal with Marvel Comics , which led Marvel to publish Casper titles, including an adaptation of the 1995 live-action Casper film. Two issues of an ongoing Casper title were published in May 1997, followed by the short-lived Casper and Friends Magazine (May–July 1997). Montgomery

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1024-443: Was the show consultant. The show consisted of Famous Studios -produced cartoons from 1950 to 1962. There were 223 theatrical cartoons released during that period, and only 165 cartoons were included in their full format, although the original theatrical titles were changed when Harvey assumed ownership from Famous. The remainder of the 58 cartoons were either only included as fragments or not included. Jerry Beck later explained that

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