Merrill De Maris

Merrill De Maris (February 26, 1898, New Jersey – December 31, 1948, Escondido, California)[1] was an American writer who worked on Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate.

De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips; they co-created famous characters like Phantom Blot,[2] Chief O'Hara and Detective Casey.

De Maris also wrote for the Silly Symphony comic strip from December 1937 to October 1942, writing the comic strip adaptations of the feature films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio and Bambi.

[4] In 1943, De Maris abandoned a half-finished outline for a Donald Duck comic book story.

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