The sole evidence which Harvey has produced on this issue are excerpts from magazine articles which suggest a general association between the "Ghostbusters" logo and "Casper" comics.
[4] With this, the company became a subsidiary of Montgomery's HMH Communications (based in Santa Monica, California) and was renamed Harvey Comics Entertainment.
[8] During this period, Montgomery began to re-syndicate the existing animated library as well as reprint older comic book titles.
Through Claster Television, Casper & Friends was syndicated to local TV stations for three years between 1990-1994, while the "Harvey Classics" comic books began being published around the same time.
[9] In 1991, the company licensed out Richie Rich and Casper to Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures respectively to create films based on the characters.
In February 1997, Harvey re-acquired full merchandising and licensing rights to their properties including Casper and Richie Rich from Universal Pictures, although they would continue to work with the company on new animated projects.
[21] On July 27, Harvey announced that through a business plan with the Global Media Management Group, the company would produce a slate of twelve direct-to-video feature films and three television shows.
[25][26] In October, the company entered into a partnership with Spümcø to produce web-exclusive content featuring an assortment of Harvey characters.
[28] The company attended its first MIPCOM in November 1999 after entering the self-distribution market, announcing the work of a new CGI-animated Casper Christmas movie with Mainframe Entertainment and a live-action Baby Huey series aimed towards a pre-school audience.
[33] The company engaged in third-party distribution in April 2000 by becoming the international sales representative and distributor of animation studio Film Roman.
[38] On August 17, the company purchased North American distribution rights to the movie A Monkey's Tale from Pearson Television International.
[40] At the end of the month, the newly-formed Classic Media announced that they would purchase a 60% stake in Harvey Entertainment for a cash-and-stock deal valued at $30 million.
[43] Harvey sold international sales rights to the PM Entertainment library to CineTel Films in February 2001.