<Tr> <Th> Species </Th> <Td> Magpie </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <P> Heckle and Jeckle are postwar animated cartoon characters created by Paul Terry, originally produced at his own Terrytoons animation studio and released through 20th Century Fox . The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow - billed magpies; and both were voiced at different times by Sid Raymond (1946--47), Ned Sparks (1947--51), Roy Halee (1951--61), Dayton Allen (1956--66) and Frank Welker (1979--81). While in the pilot for Curbside, Heckle was voiced by Toby Huss and Jeckle was voiced by comedian Bobcat Goldthwait . </P> <P> Heckle and Jeckle have been licensed for toys, T - shirts, puzzles, games, salt and pepper shakers, Halloween costumes, plush dolls, puppets, coloring books, cookie jars and other consumer products for decades, variously through Terrytoons, CBS Television and Viacom . Selected cartoons from the original series of 52 theatrical titles were briefly made available on VHS home video in the 1990s, but a major DVD release has yet to materialize . The characters also regularly appeared in comic books over the years, including "Mighty Mouse", "Terrytoons" and "Paul Terry's Comics", and even headlined a number of their own comic book titles: </P>

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