An early Avon Books edition from the 1940s of the Simon Templar mystery short story collection, The Saint Intervenes.

Avon Publications was a paperback book and comic book publisher. It today exists only as an imprint of HarperCollins. The Saint in a vintage 1943 paperback edition. ... This article is in need of attention. ... Boodle is a collection of short stories by Leslie Charteris, first published in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1934. ... Paperback may refer to a kind of book binding by which papers are simply folded without cloth or leather and bound - usually with glue rather than stitches or staples - into a thick paper cover; or to a book with this type of binding. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. ... Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. ...

Avon Books was founded in 1941 by the American News Corporation to create a rival to Pocket Books. They hired Joseph and Edna Meyers to establish the company. They bought out J.S. Ogilvie Publications, a pulp magazine publisher, and renamed it "Avon Publications". They also go into comic books. Pocket Books is the name of a subdivision of Simon & Schuster publishers. ... Flynns Detective Fiction from 1941. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Avon was bought by the Hearst Corporation in 1959. In 1999, the News Corporation bought out Hearst's book division, and merged Avon with HarperCollins. The Hearst Corporation is a large privately-held media conglomerate based in New York City. ... News Corporation (abbreviated to News Corp) (NYSE: NWS) is one of the worlds largest media conglomerates. ...

Avon now publishes only historical romance titles, though in the past it has published many genre works. Look up romance in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Avon Comics

In the 1950s, Avon published comics. Their titles included horror, science fiction, western, funny animals, and more. Avon is considered the first professional work of comic book artist Wally Wood. Most titles lasted only a few issues, but they did have a few long lasting titles. Among those are: Wallace Wally Wood (born June 17, 1927, Menahga, Minnesota, United States; died November 2, 1981), was an American writer-artist best known for his work in EC Comics and Mad. ...

• Eerie (17 issues, 1951-53)
• Jesse James (29 issues, 1950-56)
• Peter Rabbit (34 issues, 1950-56)
• The Saint (12 issues, 1947-52)
• Strange Worlds (22 issues, 1950-52; 54-55)
• Wild Bill Hickock (28 issues, 1949-56)

External link

• Avon imprint page on the HarperCollins website.