Creator from United States

Merrill De Maris

Born 26 February 1898, New Jersey; died 31 December 1948, Escondido, California.

Also known as: MDM, Merrill DeMaris, MdM, DeMaris
Script: 320 stories
Plot: 298 stories
Subject: 6 stories

2 stories

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Title	Year	By	As	Kind	Pages	Made in	Printings
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	1937	Merrill De Maris, Hank Porter	plot, script	Newspaper strip	20	Sunday pages (US)	800
The Monarch of Medioka	1937	Ted Osborne, Floyd Gottfredson	script	Newspaper strip	156	Daily strips (US)	782

Life and work

Comics. Disney Studios: Script for newspaper strips 1933-1942 (Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies).

Animation. Disney Studios 1932-1942: Worked as a gagman (Snow White, Mickey Mouse, Silly Symphonies) when he wasn't assigned to the comic strips.

Also. Left Disney in 1942 on health grounds.

Characters most often

Mickey Mouse2321933–1934, 1938–1942, 2018
Goofy1301933, 1938–1942
Minnie Mouse791933–1934, 1938–1942, 2018
Morty and Ferdie591938–1942
Pluto281933–1934, 1938–1942
Horace Horsecollar211933–1934, 1938–1942
Clarabelle Cow191933–1934, 1938–1942
Patricia Pigg51933–1934, 1940–1942
Peg-Leg Pete41934, 1938, 1940–1941
Mrs. Van Swank31938, 1940, 1942
Cop from YM 03931939–1940
Detective Casey31938–1939, 1942

Works most with

Manuel Gonzales1761938–1942
Ted Thwaites1371933–1934, 1938–1941, 2018
Bill Wright1221938–1942, 2018
Floyd Gottfredson581933–1934, 1938–1942, 2018
Al Taliaferro201933–1934, 1938–1939
Bob Grant31937, 1939, 1942
Hank Porter21937, 1939
Ross Wetzel11939
Karl Karpé11942
Carl Barks11943

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