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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.
S. Safe Harbour (novel) Scientology: The Now Religion; The Scorch Trials; Sea Change (Powlik novel) The Second Summer of the Sisterhood; User:Dunkybrown/In Too Deep (Child novel)
Dell Mapback #173, 1947 Crime map from Dell 173 Dell Mapback, The Sheik. Mapback is a term used by paperback collectors to refer to the earliest paperback books published by Dell Books, beginning in 1943. The books are known as mapbacks because the back cover of the book contains a map that illustrates the location of the action.
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).
George T. Delacorte Jr. (20 June 1894 – 4 May 1991) was an American magazine publisher, born in New York City. He founded the Dell Publishing in 1921. His goal was to entertain readers who were not satisfied with the genteel publications available at the time.
Paperback, a type of book binding often referred to as a "pocket book" Pocket edition, an abridged edition of a book or a small-size book made to be carried in the pocket; Pocketbook (application), a Sydney-based free budget planner and personal finance app; Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books
Another possible influence is the female novelist Ethel M. Dell (dell/banks = features of countryside scenery), who also has a middle initial of ’M’, a reputation for writing novels of the Rosie M. Banks sort, and is mentioned by name in several Wodehouse stories. Both novelists were exact contemporaries of Wodehouse.