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Joe Gould wrote:<BR>
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When Western took their<BR>
comics liscences and production from Dell to start<BR>
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Some argument could be made that Gold Key/Whitman was a new company, but the reality is it was Western's new house identity for continuing what it had been doing for decades, the only significant difference being that the comics were no longer distributed by Dell.<BR>
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Dell, as most folks know, was not actually the publisher of 1940s and 1950s Disney comics, but only the newsstand distributor. Western held the publishing license and did the production and oversaw the printing, but as the newsstand distributor, the company actually getting the books out to market, Dell was entitled to some perks, such as having their imprint on the books. This seemed to be fine with Western at the time, since Dell was already a well known imprint and the business and revenue arrangements would have been little altered by calling them, say, Golden Comics. Upon breaking with Dell Western finally decided to initiate their own imprints, but this did not change the publisher of longstanding record: Western.<BR>
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Gary
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