More on More about Dell

SRoweCanoe@aol.com SRoweCanoe at aol.com
Mon Jun 14 22:05:58 CEST 2004


In a message dated 6/14/2004 3:15:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bangfish at cableone.net writes:

>  Dell was not the number one comic book publisher in the >late 1950s because Dell did not publish comics - they >distributed them. KK Publications was the publisher of the >titles in question, Western, a division of KK, was the >>printer, and Dell was the contracted distributor. This >confusion has persisted because the Dell imprint is right >there, bold and beautiful, on the KK Publications comics of >that era (and earlier).  


Dell up to about 1958 was distributed by ANC - at that time America's largest periodical distributors. They started self-distributing around that time.  They were indeed the publisher of most of the Dell comics - (as the indica in most of the non-Disney books does indeed say Dell). I have been told that KK stood for Kay Kamen, who was the guy who owned the merchandizing rights for Disney products.  

Western was the packager of the material for Dell (they also packaged material for Simon and Shuster's children's books). It was not unusual for a magazine or comic book or book publisher to get someone else to package material for them. 

I have a friend, who was an editor at Western (in their comics division), who could confirm most of what I stated above. Let me send this to him too, maybe he can tell us what he may know about the mechanics of the KK name.  
 
 
Steven Rowe
SRoweCanoe at aol.com




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