Publishers Syndicate
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Formerly called
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Publishers Newspaper Syndicate |
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| Industry | Print syndication |
| Fate | merged with Hall Syndicate to form Publishers-Hall Syndicate |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Founders | Harold H. Anderson and Eugene Conley |
| Defunct | 1967 |
| Headquarters | 30 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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Key people
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Allen Saunders, Nicholas P. Dallis |
| Products | Comic strips, newspaper columns |
| Owners | Harold H. Anderson (1925–1963) Field Enterprises |
Publishers Newspaper Syndicate was a syndication service based in Chicago that operated from 1925 to 1967, when it merged with the Hall Syndicate. Publishers syndicated such long-lived comic strips as Big Chief Wahoo / Steve Roper, Mary Worth, Kerry Drake, Rex Morgan, M.D., Judge Parker, and Apartment 3-G.
Allen Saunders served as comics editor in the 1940s and wrote a number of Publishers' Syndicate's most popular strips, including Apple Mary, Mary Worth, Big Chief Wahoo, and Kerry Drake. His protege Nicholas P. Dallis followed in Saunders' footsteps by writing the popular strips Rex Morgan, M.D., Judge Parker, and Apartment 3-G.
In addition to comic strips, Publishers syndicated sports columnists such as Red Smith and columnists such as Roscoe Drummond.
The Publishers' Syndicate was founded in 1925 by Chicago-area businessmen Harold H. Anderson and Eugene Conley.
In 1963 Chicago-based Field Enterprises and New York Herald Tribune publisher John Hay Whitney acquired Publishers Syndicate, merging syndication operations with Field's Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate, the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, and the syndicate of the Chicago Daily News (a newspaper that had been acquired by Field Enterprises in 1959). When the New York Herald Tribune folded in 1966, Publishers inherited their strips, including Johnny Hart's B.C., Mell Lazarus' Miss Peach, and Harry Haenigsen's Penny.
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