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Dell Publishing Company, Inc. is an American publisher of books, magazines and comic books, that was founded in 1921 by George T. Delacorte Jr. with $10,000 (approx. $145,000 in 2021), two employees and one magazine title, I Confess, and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines, which included penny-a-word detective stories, articles about films, and romance books (or "smoochies" as ...
Pages in category "Dell Publishing books" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Books originally published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Dell Publishing. Pages in category "Delacorte Press books" The following 165 pages are in this category, out of 165 total.
Dell Comics was the comic book publishing arm of Dell Publishing, which got its start in pulp magazines. It published comics from 1929 to 1973. At its peak, it was the most prominent and successful American company in the medium. [1] In 1953, Dell claimed to be the world's largest comics publisher, selling 26 million copies each month. [2]
Dell Magazines is a magazine company known for its many puzzle magazines, astrology magazines, as well as four fiction magazines: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It was founded by George T. Delacorte Jr. in 1921 as part of his Dell Publishing Co.
Dell Publishing's second publication by this name was a standard American comic book published during the 1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Packaged by Max Gaines and editor Sheldon Mayer, [9] it ran 64 issues (cover-dated Oct. 1936 – May 1942). [10]
It was jointly owned by Richard Baron (1923–2021) [2] and Dell Publishing; E. L. Doctorow was editor-in-chief. In 1969 The Dial Press became wholly owned by Dell Publishing Company. In 1976 Doubleday bought Dell Publishing and the children's division of The Dial Press (Dial Books for Young Readers) was sold to E. P. Dutton. The children's ...
Four Color, also known as Four Color Comics and Dell Four Color, is an American comic book anthology series published by Dell Comics between 1939 and 1962. The title is a reference to the four basic colors used when printing comic books (cyan, magenta, yellow and black at the time). [3] The first 25 issues (1939–1942) are known as "series 1".