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{{Short description|Comics writer (1898–1948)}}
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| birth_name    = Merrill De Maris
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1898|02|26}}
| birth_place   = [[New Jersey]], [[United States]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|1948|12|31|1898|02|26}}
| death_place   = [[Escondido, California]], [[United States]]
| nationality   = [[United States|American]]
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'''Merrill De Maris''' (February 26, 1898, [[New Jersey]] – December 31, 1948, [[Escondido, California]])<ref>{{Inducks author|MDM|Inducks biography}}</ref> was an American writer who worked on [[Disney comics|Disney comic strips]] for [[King Features Syndicate]].

De Maris helped [[Floyd Gottfredson]] with many of his early [[Mickey Mouse (comic strip)|''Mickey Mouse'' comic strips]]; they co-created famous characters like [[Phantom Blot]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Markstein|first=Don|title=THE PHANTOM BLOT|url=http://www.toonopedia.com/phanblot.htm|publisher=Toonopedia.com|accessdate=20 May 2011}}</ref> [[Mickey Mouse universe#Chief O'Hara|Chief O'Hara]] and [[Mickey Mouse universe#Detective Casey|Detective Casey]]. In 1942, they gave [[Minnie Mouse]] a full name as Minerva Mouse,<ref>As seen on the fifth strip of [http://inducks.org/story.php?c=YM+048 "The Gleam"]</ref> for the four-month comic strip story "The Gleam".

De Maris also wrote for the ''[[Silly Symphony (comic strip)|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 (1937 film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'', ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' and ''[[Bambi]]''.<ref name=IDW-v1>{{cite book |last1=Duvall |first1=Earl |last2=Taliaferro |first2=Al |last3=Osborne |first3=Ted |last4=De Maris |first4=Merrill |title=Silly Symphonies: The Complete Disney Classics, vol 1 |date=2016 |publisher=IDW Publishing |location=San Diego |isbn=978-1631405587}}</ref>

In 1943, De Maris abandoned a half-finished outline for a [[Donald Duck in comics|Donald Duck]] comic book story. The publisher gave the outline to [[Carl Barks]], who polished it, made it longer, and published it as "Too Many Pets", in ''[[Donald Duck (comic book)|Donald Duck Four Color]]'' #29 (Sept 1943).<ref>{{cite web |title="Too Many Pets" |url=https://www.seriesam.com/barks/comicsos0009.html#ccus_os0029-03 |website=A Guidebook to the Carl Barks Universe |accessdate=23 September 2019}}</ref>

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==External links==
*{{Inducks author|MDM}}
*{{IMDb name|id=0210112|name=Merrill De Maris}}

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