Marvel Productions Logo History (featuring DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)

"Marvel Productions Logo History (featuring DePatie-Freleng Enterprises)" made by TR3X Productions, 10/06/2024.
This video will look at the logos from DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (1963-81), Marvel Comics Animation (1978-81) and Marvel Productions (1981-96, later known as New World Animation from 1993-96); Marvel Animation is excluded from this video.
01) DePatie-Freleng Enterprises was founded by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng in May 1963, both of which worked at the late Warner Bros. Cartoons studio prior to its demise in the aforementioned year; because of this, DFE Films (abbreviation for DePatie-Freleng Enterprises) is considered as the successor to Warner Bros. Cartoons (1933-63). Based in Burbank, California (USA), the animation studio specialised in several products, namely television shows and title sequences, the latter of which saw them work on the intro for the Pink Panther (1963) and its sequels; co-founder Friz Freleng was one of the co-creators of the Pink Panther character. Their first logo appeared in their Super 6 TV series from 1966-67, and this design was used for the remainder of their existence, appearing mainly at the end of TV series and specials such as the Pink Panther Show (1969-80), Doctor Dolittle (1970-71), the Cat in the Hat (1971), the New Fantastic Four (1978) and many more. In 1981, DePatie and Freleng sold DFE Films to Marvel Comics, which was subsequently renamed as Marvel Productions; DePatie was assigned as the head of that company, while Freleng returned to Warner Bros. under their then recently revived animation division, Warner Bros. Animation (founded March 1980).
02) The animation division for Marvel Comics worked on a series of productions with DFE Films from the late 1970s to early 1980s, some examples including Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, Spider-Woman and more. When DFE Films was bought by Marvel Comics, they renamed their animation division to Marvel Productions as well.
03) Marvel Productions was founded by David H. DePatie and Lee Gunther in 1981, and the production company was based in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Cadence Industries Corporation owned Marvel Comics and Marvel Productions during this time, but after they went into liquidation in 1986, they sold Marvel to New World in that year. A lot of television shows were produced by Marvel Productions throughout the eighties and early nineties, most of which are well-known such as Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends (1981-83), Muppet Babies (1984-91), Transformers (1984-87), My Little Pony 'n Friends (1986) and RoboCop (1988) for example (some of these were co-produced by Sunbow Productions and Henson Associates). In November 1993, the company was renamed as New World Animation, and less than three years later, News Corporation and Fox Entertainment Group acquired New World Entertainment and its assets, which put an end to New World Animation.
A day before making this video, I saw my TH-cam channel reach over 50,000 subscribers at noon, and this milestone made me want to make a logo history to celebrate it. Originally, I was going to make an ident history on a TV channel in preparation for the milestone, but since I had trouble finding idents from that channel as well as focusing on other projects, I never got around to finishing it (this was back in early May); however, I will continue to work on it in the future, possibly after my next logo history which will be uploaded tomorrow on Tuesday 11th June. Thanks to everyone who has subscribed to my TH-cam channel since the past several years or months, your support encourages me to continue making videos on this channel, as well as the likes and shares I receive on my videos. Although the upload schedule on this channel has been low this year, I am uploading two videos a week on my second channel ‪@TR3XProductions2ndChannel‬ - these videos are part of the Musto Graphics Collection series, which showcases the logos me and my brother Dylan ‪@omegafilmcorporation‬ made from the early 2010s to 2023, and there is a commentary (written by me) in the text box below the logos and factual text.
Timestamps
0:00 DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (1963-81)
1:47 Marvel Comics Animation (1978-81)
1:53 Marvel Productions and New World Animation (1981-96)
3:56 Credits
-TR3X