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Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company, mainly producing comic magazines for the U.K.. General British comics usually differ from the American comic book in a variety of respects. ...
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and a member of the European Union. ...
Fleetway began life as Amalgamated Press, the company owned by Alfred Harmsworth, who were based in Fleetway House. Amalgamated Press entered the comic magazine market as early as 1890 with Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips. In 1959[1] (http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/fictionmag/b16.htm) the name of the company was changed from Amalgamated Press to Fleetway Publications. In 1963, Fleetway Publications was merged with George Newnes and Odhams Press to form IPC Media. The name of Fleetway was still used to identify the comics magazine publishing arm of IPC, although some comics were published in IPC's name. In 1987 all comics were collected into the Fleetway arm and sold to Robert Maxwell. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (July 15, 1865, Dublin - August 14, 1922, London) was an influential and successful newspaper owner. ...
IPC Media is a large British publishing company, mainly producing consumer magazines. ...
Robert Maxwell Ian Robert Maxwell (June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991), British media proprietor, rose from poverty to build a great publishing empire, but was revealed after his mysterious death to have been misusing staff pension funds on a massive scale to prop up his ailing empire. ...
In 1991, Maxwell died and Fleetway merged with London Editions, owned by Egmont, becoming Fleetway Editions. At some point after 2002 the name of Fleetway Editions ceased to be used by Egmont on its publications. |