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    Most major publishers in comics license out some of their characters, characters credited to this page have been licensed for use in comics by companies outside the industry. Specifically companies who have never published comics themselves (examples of companies from outside the industry that have published their own comics include: Disney, Nintendo of America or Quaker Oats).

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    Partial List of Companies Covered By This Category

    20th Century Fox

    A film and television production company, owners of franchises like Avatar, Aliens, Predator, Angel, Buffy and X-Files.

    Atlus

    see: Atlus

    BBC

    Major British broadcasting corporation, its most famous media franchise licensed for comics is Dr. Who.

    Capcom

    Video game company, major franchises that have been licensed for comics include Street Fighter, Biohazard, Rockman and Ace Attorney.

    Classic Media, LLC

    A company that bought up many classic media properties that it now owns and licenses, at the time many of these were most actively published in comics, they were usually owned by other companies. Their licensed properties include The Lone Ranger, Casper, Richie Rich and the Western/Gold Key library,

    Code:000

    see: Code:000

    Columbia Pictures

    One of the major American film production studios, owns franchises like Ghostbusters.

    Conan Properties International

    Licensors of Robert E. Howard's famous character that is considered in the public domain in some regions.

    Cover Corporation

    Technology company famous for its Hololive vtubers.

    Disney

    see: Disney

    Although the vast majority of appearances from Disney characters in comics were licensed (with many Disney characters arguably being the most published characters in comics globally), Disney itself briefly took over publishing the English-language Disney line of comics in the 90's and has had a history of publishing comics based on its own franchises.

    Note that for its relevance to comics history, Disney here refers to Walt Disney Animation and its properties. Outside companies that have been bought up by Disney Corporation should not be attached to the Disney publisher and are most likely here (unless they also published their own properties as a comic publisher at some point).

    Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.

    Similar to Conan mentioned above, these characters are considered in the public domain in some forms (especially Tarzan) but they do still license out their trademarks of Warlord of Mars/Dejah Thoris to Dynamite Entertainment.

    Eidos Interactive

    Video game publisher that licensed its property Tomb Raider for comics in the 90's and early 00's, the property was later bought by other corporations.

    Epic Games

    Video game company.

    Golden Films

    Licensed its animated series King Arthur and the Knights of Justice to Marvel in the early 90's.

    Green Hornet, Inc.

    Licensors of the Green Hornet franchise.

    Hanna-Barbera

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    Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc. was an American animation studio that dominated American television animation for three decades in the mid-to-late 20th century. It was founded in 1957 by former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animation directors William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (creators of Tom and Jerry) and live-action director George Sidney in partnership with Screen Gems, the television arm of Columbia Pictures. Sold to Taft Broadcasting in late 1966, it spent two decades as its subsidiary.

    Hanna-Barbera was known not only for its characters, but building upon and popularizing the concepts and uses of limited animation. Over 30 years, successful hit cartoons were produced, including The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, Wacky Races, Scooby-Doo and The Smurfs. For their achievements, Hanna and Barbera together won seven Academy Awards, eight Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a star on theHollywood Walk of Fame.

    Hanna-Barbera's fortunes declined in the mid-1980s when the profitability of Saturday morning cartoons was eclipsed by weekday afternoon syndication. In late 1991, the studio was purchased from Taft (by then named Great American Broadcasting) by Turner Broadcasting System (Ted Turner's company), who used much of its back catalog to program its new TV channel, Cartoon Network. After Turner purchased the company, Hanna and Barbera continued to serve as creative consultants and mentors.

    Turner merged with Time Warner in 1996 and the studio became a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Animation, into which Hanna-Barbera was absorbed after Hanna died in 2001. Cartoon Network Studios continued the projects for the channel's output. Barbera went on to work for Warner Bros. Animation until his death in 2006.

    As of 2016, the studio exists as an in-name-only unit used to market properties and productions associated with the Hanna-Barbera library, specifically its "classic" works. In 2005, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honored Hanna and Barbera with a bronze wall sculpture of themselves and their characters.

    Henson Associates

    Licensed The Muppets to Marvel in the 80's, later Disney bought both the Muppets and Marvel and had more comics published.

    Ian Fleming Publications Ltd.

    Owners of James Bond, named for his creator Ian Fleming.

    Jay Ward Productions

    Animation studio and owners of the Rocky and Bullwinkle properties.

    Konami

    Video game company, licensor of Metal Gear Solid.

    Lucasfilm

    A film and television production company. Their most famous properties include Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

    Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

    Film/television production company, owns properties like Pink Panther and Stargate. Historically owned and licensed Tom and Jerry for comics.

    Microsoft

    Major technology corporation, has licensed out its video game properties including Gears of War and Halo.

    Netflix

    Has licensed Stranger Things for a series of comics.

    NBC Studios

    see: NBC Studios

    Produced a long-running digital comic for their Heroes franchise but licensed the property out when it came to publishing any physical comics.

    New Comic Company, LLC

    Bought the Creepy and Eerie properties and licenses them to Dark Horse for reprints.

    Paramount Pictures

    A major film studio. They have published a single digital-only comic for the movie True Grit (found here) but their most famous franchises like Star Trek have never been published directly by them and are found here.

    Red Sonja, LLC

    Originally part of the same licensing company as Conan, her individual popularity led to her being split-off and has for decades resulted in her appearing in her own universe of characters at different publishers than Conan.

    Rooster Teeth Productions

    see: Rooster Teeth Productions

    Licensors of RWBY.

    Sesame Workshop

    Non-profit organization that owns and produces Sesame Street.

    SNK Playmore

    see: SNK Corporation

    Japanese video game company.

    StudioCanal

    French film producer and distributor, owners of Terminator.

    Summit Entertainment

    Label of Lionsgate (film production and distribution studio), licensor of John Wick.

    Tatsunoko Production

    Tatsunoko Production is a Japanese animation studio founded on October 19, 1962 by brothers Tatsuo Yoshida, Kuri Ippei (pen name of Toyoharu Yoshida) and Kenji Yoshida, the studio is known for Speed Racer, Judo Boy, Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, Space Knight Tekkaman, Casshern and Hurricane Polymar.

    Tsuburaya Productions

    see: Tsuburaya Pro

    United Plankton Pictures

    see: United Plankton Pictures

    Producers of the SpongeBob franchise. Although initially they did some licensing out of their characters for comics, they actually published their own long-running series of comics in the 10's and their characters are listed under their own publisher page.

    Universal Studios

    Major film production and distribution company, has licensed out major franchises for comics including Battlestar Galactica and Jurassic Park.

    Viacom

    Mass media and entertainment company. While TMNT were initially one of the most popular success stories in creator-owned American comics for their first few decades, in 2009 the rights were fully sold-off to Viacom who has since primarily licensed it to IDW.

    VJIB, LLC

    Owner of Joe Palooka.

    Warner Bros.

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    Two of Warner Bros. most famous cartoon artists were Chuck Jones and Tex Avery. They are known for creating characters in the Looney Toons and Merry Melodies cartoons, to include MGM's Tom & Jerry, and Paramount Pictures Popeye. The brothers Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack were the founders of Warner Bros. They started off with their first theater, the Cascade in 1903 in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Warner Bros. was founded in 1904 in Pittsburgh under the name Duquesne Amusement & Supply Company. They began producing films by the time World War I came around. In 1918 the opened Warner Bros. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

    Warner Bros. is now one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment and is widely considered to be one of the major film studios that own a large share of the movie market. Chuck Jones and Tex Avery helped to make Warner Bros. cartoons as famous as it is.

    Warner Bros. is a subsidiary of the conglomerate media corporation Time Warner. Time Warner is also the owner of several properties that include CNN News Corporation, HBO, The CW, Cartoon Network, as well DC Comics.

    Wizards of the Coast, LLC

    Has licensed out its Dungeons & Dragons and Forgotten Realms properties for various comics.

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