Is Space Ghost DC, or?

Hmmm. I see the list of SG comics shown on Wikipedia...

"Space Ghost has appeared in the following comic books:

Hanna-Barbera Super TV Heroes (Gold Key, 1968)
Golden Comics Digest (Gold Key, 1969)
TV Stars (Marvel, 1978)
Space Ghost (Comico, 1987)
Cartoon Network Presents (DC, 1997)
Space Ghost (DC, 2005)
Future Quest (DC, 2016)"


... shows that since 1997 he's been published by DC - but whether they purchased the character or have some arrangement to use him under licence, I'm not sure.






All for a box of chocolates...

Both DC and Hanna Barbera are owned by Time Warner.

I thought hanna barbera was universal

In a roundabout way, Space Ghost is now a DC property.

SG was a creation of Hanna-Barbera. H-B was sold to a partner ship of Turner Broadcasting and Apollo Investment Fund in 1991. That's how several of the H-B cartoons made on to the Cartoon Network as parodies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera#Turner_rebound:_1991.E2.80.931992

DC (National Periodical Publications) were purchased by the Kinney National Company, which later bought Warner Brothers - Seven Arts to become Warner Communications (and later Time Warner). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Comics#Kinney_National_subsidiary In 1996, Time Warner and Turner merged, so that now DC can access any H-B characters or series.

DC did a Space Ghost 6 issue limited run in 2005, which looks to have given SG a creation back story and make his story into a gritty adult, rather than kids, character. http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Space_Ghost_Vol_1

DC also have already introduced or planned for other H-B characters, including Scooby-Doo working for a larger corporation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.C.O.O.B.) and in a post-apocalyptic series (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby_Apocalypse), the Flintstones with a more modernistic stone-age look and feel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones_(2016_comic_book)), the Wacky Races as a race in a Mad-Max style Earth trying to win the prize of reaching mankind's last hope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Raceland) and a Justice League style mash-up of several H-B characters to defeat a villain threatening the galaxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Quest).

BTW, I've never heard of any of the newer stuff until I got to this thread.