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2 unusual facts about Harvey Comics


Harvey Comics

In the summer of 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.

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

The special's current owner, DreamWorks Classics, now also owns most of Paramount's short subjects (mostly animated, with some live-action) released between October 1950 and March 1962 through its purchase of Harvey Comics (this also included rights to many of the original characters created by Famous Studios before 1959, such as Casper the Friendly Ghost).


Frank Giacoia

Other companies for which Giacoia did art during the 1940s and 1950s include Crestwood, Dell Comics, Eastern Color, Fawcett, Harvey Comics Lev Gleason Publications and Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics.

George Wunder

In 1953, Canada Dry offered a "premium giveaway" with a case of its ginger ale — one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips by Wunder, printed by Harvey Comics.

Howard Post

By 1961, Post was drawing adventures of such Harvey Comics children's characters as Hot Stuff the Little Devil, Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost, Wendy the Good Little Witch and the Ghostly Trio in such comics books as Casper's Ghostland and TV Casper & Company, starring Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Jack Sparling

From the 1950s through the 1970s, Sparling provided art for a variety of publishers, including Harvey Comics (the Pirana), Charlton Comics (adaptations of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman), DC Comics (Challengers of the Unknown, Secret Six, Eclipso) and Marvel Comics (Captain America).

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky was an American comic book series, published by Harvey Comics.


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Howard Nostrand

Nostrand left Powell in March 1952 and found work with Harvey Comics editor Sid Jacobson.

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky

Tuff Ghosts Starring Spooky featured stories from Harvey Comics' stable of characters, focusing primarily on Spooky the Tuff Little Ghost.