Ledger Syndicate
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Formerly called
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Public Ledger Syndicate |
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Print syndication |
| Founded | 1915 |
| Founder | Cyrus H. K. Curtis |
| Defunct | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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Key people
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George Kearney |
| Products | Comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons |
| Owner | Public Ledger (Philadelphia) |
The Public Ledger Syndicate (known simply as the Ledger Syndicate) was a syndication company operated by the Philadelphia Public Ledger that operated from 1915–1946 (outlasting the newspaper itself, which ceased publishing in 1942).
The Ledger Syndicate distributed comic strips, panels, and columns to the United States and the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The syndicate also distributed material from the Curtis Publishing Company's other publications, including The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and The Country Gentleman.
For whatever reason, the Ledger Syndicate favored comic strips with alliterative titles, including Babe Bunting, Daffy Demonstrations, Deb Days, Dizzy Dramas, Hairbreadth Harry, Modish Mitzi, and Somebody's Stenog.
The Public Ledger Syndicate was founded in 1915 by Public Ledger publisher Cyrus H. K. Curtis, The first big comic strip success as A. E. Hayward's Somebody's Stenog, launched in late 1918.
The Syndicate was particularly active in the 1920s, when it launched a number of comic strips, including such long-running titles as Connie, Dizzy Dramas, Dumb-Bells, Hairbreadth Harry, and Modish Mitzi.
Walter B. Gibson, creator of The Shadow (which was syndicated by the Ledger Syndicate from 1940 to 1942), was a Ledger Syndicate staff writer. In its later years, the manager of the Ledger Syndicate was George Kearney.
The Public Ledger closed down in 1942 and most of the Ledger Syndicate strips ended that year as well, with the exception of Frank Godwin's Connie, which kept going until 1944. Syndicate manager George Kearney tried writing a strip called Rink Brody, illustrated by H. Draper Williams, but it was not successful, and the syndicate finally closed its doors in 1946.
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