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*Cartoons produced at Paramount Pictures Cartoon Studios will have the “Produced by Paramount Pictures Corporation” credit written in it's signature font on the bottom right, with the "KING FEATURES SYNDICATE TV PRODUCTION" words moved on the top left, above and next to the crown.

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*Some cartoon shorts that originally appeared in the series have been released on three VHS volumes of [[Rhino Home Video]]’s “Sunday Morning Funnies”: ''Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, Beetle Bailey,'' and ''Krazy Kat''.

*DVD and streaming site releases (like Tubi) of these cartoons may preserve the logos, as well (the logo has been retained on the ''Krazy Kat Kartoon Kollection'' DVD box set released by [[Koch Vision]] in 2003).

===3rd Logo (1963-1970) ===

'''Logo:''' Against a white (gray in B&W) background, we see a rectangle with a equilateral triangle in the center, along with two triangles on either side with one curved on the each side. On the lower left hand corner and upper right hand corner of the rectangle, there are two dots. The dot on the lower left drops and explodes into 8 small dots and 5 larger dots. The triangle on the left side drops along with the other dot. The triangle blossoms like a fan into a flower shape, while the other two triangles drop and form an hexagon shaped by six triangles, except the upper triangle is missing. Then at one point, we see the four "pieces" of the KFS logo on the screen, before they suddenly "multiply" and jump all over the screen, finally forming the KFS crown logo (which is either fully black in B&W, or the tips are orange when in color), which shrinks and moves to the upper left of the screen above the words "KING FEATURES PRESENTS" (It is ID'ed as "A KING FEATURES PRESENTATION" at the end of some TV shows).

'''Music/Sounds:''' The theme begin with the sound notes hearing similar to the Universal theme from the late '70s. These occur during the dropping phase. Then, big band music is heard while all of the shapes jump all over the screen and during the formation of the KFS crown. This music could be heard on ''The Beatles'' cartoon. Other times, the opening or end theme may play over the logo.

*This logo maybe vanishing since it was last seen on the KFS-owned ''Blondie'' movies with Columbia Pictures original credits last seen on AMC. However, if your station has been showing ''Blondie'' for a long time or if you owned a video of the ''Blondie'' movies from KFS Home Entertainment, you may see this logo.

*This logo can be found on the DVD release of ''Cool McCool'' from BCI/Eclipse, and may also turn up on a few public domain DVDs of ''Blondie'' and ''Beetle Bailey''.

===4th Logo (October 7, 1972)===

'''Availability:''' Extinct. The only known record of its existence is on the original broadcast of the 1972 ABC Saturday Superstar Movie ''Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter''.

=== 5th logo (1979-1981) ===

'''Availability:''' Extremely rare. It was seen on Flash Gordon, seasons 2-4 of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'', and the syndicated reruns of 1960s KFS cartoons.

===6th Logo (1981-1985, October 9, 1988)===

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'''Variant:''' Some shows contain a King Features copyright notice below.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A somewhat dramatic synthesizer theme.

*Don't expect this logo to show up at the end of ''The All-New Popeye Hour'' DVD's or Tubi TV reruns as it's been plastered over with the next logo below.

*This logo appears on GREAT! Movies Classic airings of ''The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper'' and ''An American Werewolf in London'' as they use old 4:3 SD masters.

===7th Logo (1982, 1985-1990)===

*A unique version was seen as the intro to King Features' cartoons on VHS where the background is blue. Here, the crown is above a long white stripe spanning the entire screen, with "King Features Entertainment" on it. Below it is a copyright for King Features Syndicate. "The Sailor's Hornpipe" plays here, in which when the whistle blows, the crown zooms in and takes up the entire screen, with the inside of it fading to the intro itself as the stripe and copyright disappear. At the end, the crown appears over King Features' line up of characters and zooms in, takes up the entire screen again, and goes back to the logo, thus ending the intro.

'''Music/Sounds:''' It starts with a several synth taps, which is followed by a whirring sound getting louder and with more reverb. 4 synth notes then play in series of 2. A drum plays when the text starts to fade in, with the byline appearing with a twinkle. All of this was played on a Yamaha DX-7. The closing themes of the animated ''Blondie'' specials from 1989, as well as ''Ask Dr. Ruth'', were heard over the logo.

'''Availability:''' Very rare. Appears on the ''Blondie & Dagwood'' specials from the era.

===9th Logo (November 9, 2004) ===

'''Trivia:''' A reinterpretation of the 1st logo, only this time the TV is changed to a globe of the Earth.

'''Music/Sounds:''' None, but on the Fox airings of the movie, a generic theme is playing.

'''Availability:''' Ultra rare. It was only seen on the direct-to-video movie ''Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy'', as well as a Fox airing of said movie on December 17, 2004 and December 30, 2005.

===10th Logo (February 18, 2022- )===

'''Availability:''' Brand new. Seen on the Netflix original series, ''The Cuphead Show!''.

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