General Category > Comic Related Discussion

Holyoke is a Myth...

<< < (16/26) > >>

Bob Hughes:
Will Murray's three printed articles on the Writer's Digest appeared in Alter Ego 25, 32, and 33. The section he quoted to me from was in Alter Ego 32.  There are no scans of actual Writer's Digest pages in there, but there are extensive quotes.


There were two articles on Sherman Bowles in Time Magazine, on Oct. 14, 1946 and March 10, 1947 mostly about labor relations with the four! newspapers he owned in Springfield Mass. They had been in his family for four generations before he managed to run them into the ground.  It is noted that he "divested" himself of all ownership and turned them over to his secretary to avoid lawsuits and now claimed to be merely an advertising rep.  Bowles died in 1952.  One of the newspapers is still hanging on by a thread but it's not family owned anymore.  Based on the articles I very much doubt Temerson ever "co-owned" anything with Bowles.  He might have been an employee though.

JVJ (RIP):
Thanks, Bob,
I'll have to wait a bit before tackling the AE (they're upstairs and tricky to get at). I've read the Time Magazine pieces, not much germane to our discussion except the revelation of just who Mary Gallegher was. The ownership statement in, I think, Sparkling Stars lists her as owner.

You're right, I can't see a scenario where Temerson and Bowles "co-owned" anything, either. Hames' theory is that Bowles took over CatMan and Capt. Aero in lieu of unpaid printing bills and they weren't returned until Temerson raised the requisite funds to pay off the old debt. So our view is that Temerson was originally the publisher and Bowles/Holyoke the occasional printer. Then Bowles/Holyoke became publisher and printer. Eventually Temerson raises some capital, pays off his debt, becomes a publisher again and goes to a different(?) printer. Would be interested to know if Bowles had any holdings in the printing plant at 420 DeSoto in St. Louis, MO, where the Et-Es-Go/Continental were printed, OR the one in Meriden CT where some Tem/Nita/Brookwood books were printed. Just how much was Bowles involved in the printing industry?

(|:{>

Bob Hughes:
The St Louis plant was World Color Press before they moved to Sparta. See:

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/World-Color-Press-Inc-Company-History.html

Bob Hughes:
From Wikipedia (I know, I know...)

--- Quote ---In March 1924, a newspaper in Waterbury, Connecticut purchased a Goss International single-width press to use in printing color newspaper comics sections. The Knickerbocker Press  of Albany, New York, and the Springfield Republican of Springfield, Massachusetts, approached the Republican about using the press to print their own color comics supplements. The Springfield Union soon afterward did as well. The Eastern Color Printing Company, incorporated in August 1928 with William B. Pape as its vice president and principal executive officer, acquired the press and replaced it with a Goss four-deck press. The company acquired additional presses in 1929 and 1931. During this time period, Eastern, headquartered at 61 Leavenworth Street in Waterbury, established itself in the pulp magazine industry by being one of the few firms to print color covers for the pulps.
--- End quote ---


--- Quote ---1941
 Finding it necessary to do [its] own cover printing and binding for its successful comic books, Eastern acquires the Curtiss-Way plant in Meriden. Curtiss-Way was a Meriden printing facility dating back at least as far as 1895, when it was known as the Converse Publishing Company.
--- End quote ---

Most of the useful information in this article seems to be stolen from the CT Historical Society Exhibit  "Heroes, Heartthrobs, and Horrors" about the birth of the comic book in Connecticut.  Sadly this article, which I remember reading, is no longer on line.  I hope the mistakes here (like M. C. Gaines selling his comics to Dell before founding EC) weren't in it.

Anyhow, the Springfield Republican did at one time print their stuff in Connecticut.  And the Curtiss Way plant in Meriden seems to have printed covers, (often not printed in the same place as the insides of comics) and then bound them together.

archiver_USA:
Heroes, Heartthrobs and Horrors.  ;)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page