Talk:Paul Terry (cartoonist)

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers (assessed as Low-importance).

Comics: Creators / United States Low‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Comics, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to comics on Wikipedia. Get involved! If you would like to participate, you can help with the current tasks, visit the notice board, edit the attached article or discuss it at the project's talk page.ComicsWikipedia:WikiProject ComicsTemplate:WikiProject ComicsComics articles

Low

This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Related work groups:
/
	This article is supported by Comics creators work group.
	This article is supported by United States comics work group.

Animation: People Low‑importance

	Animation portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Animation, a collaborative effort to build an encyclopedic guide to animation on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, help out with the open tasks, or contribute to the discussion.AnimationWikipedia:WikiProject AnimationTemplate:WikiProject AnimationAnimation articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by the Animation people work group.

'Terrytoons Comics' did not "become Marvel"

"Terrytoon Comics went on to become Marvel Comics" is entirely wrong. The article cites an entry in "Toonpedia" that says "That same year, Heckle & Jeckle began appearing in Terrytoons Comics, which at that time was published by the company that would later become Marvel." This does not support the article's statement that Terrytoons Comics became Marvel Comics. "Terrytoons Comics" was a single comic book title at the time, not a publishing company. As I understand Marvel's history, the reference indicates that "Terrytoons Comics" was published by Timely Comics, the 40s-era publisher of the title "Marvel Comics." Timely later adopted "Marvel" as the company name.

The cover of "Terrytooons #1" does not even have a recognizable Paul Terry character. See Terrytoons One.Timely apparently had to negotiate licensing terms for the use of each character -- see Terrytoons 38, introducing Mighty Mouse.

I am deleting the only reference to Terrytoons Comics. I don't believe Terry ever did have a publishing arm, but I'm not prepared to write the section needed about Paul Terry's considerable influence on the comic book industry.

In 1960, Dell Comics published the title "New Terrytoons featuring Deputy Dawg." To my recollection, Dell also published the "Heckle & Jekyl" (sp?) and "Mighty Mouse" titles in the 50s, and I believe both titles later were published by Gold Key (60s-70s).

While Terry's characters headlined their own titles, sold many "funny animal" and "funny animal superhero" comics, and wielded considerable influence over the juvenile-targeted comics industry in the 1950s, it seems that Terry never had sufficient interest in comic book publishing to leverage his properties into a publishing company. That's a shame, as his characters were highly influential moneymakers.

I'm supplying these notes for anyone who might want to do the additional research required to add a proper section on Terry's considerable influence on the comics industry, which in my opinion was more artistic than financial.

The preceding cover scans are my own, which can be used under fair use rationale, if anyone cares to jump through all 10 wiki-hoops related to fair use images. I have no idea what the actual copyright status of these images may be. Since these are external links, referenced here for purpose of discussion, I am not offering a 'fair use' rationale here as I would for inline use. Bustter (talk) 13:46, 8 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fables Pictures

Fables Pictures was actually named Van Beuran Studios when Amedee J. Van Beuren bought it & not when Paul Terry was fired. --Evope (talk) 04:12, 9 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]