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Merrill De Maris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (148 words) |
 | Merrill De Maris is an artist who worked on Disney Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. |
| De Maris helped Floyd Gottfredson with many of his early Mickey Mouse comic strips, and helped Carl Barks with one of his Donald Duck stories, titled Too Many Pets. |
| De Maris also participated at the Disney Studio on the story adaptation for 1937's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. |
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| Merrill de Maris was one of the writers that were assigned to help Floyd Gottfredson script the Mickey Mouse strips-- Gottfredson wrote the plot, the writer developed it, and both reviewed the continuity. |
| Disney switched de Maris and Ted Osborne a couple of times, unable to decide which was best for the Story Department and which for the Comic Strip Department. |
| Other writers succeeded Smith: Ted Osborne and Merril de Maris (whom Disney switched a couple of times, unable decide which was the best for the movies' Story Department and which for the Comic Strips Department), Dick Shaw, and Bill Walsh, who eventually took over the whole writing process, initiating the plots as well. |
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