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DC VS Victor Fox: The Testimony of Will Eisner and others - link
darkmark (RIP):
This is one helluva shakeup. I have a feeling that, by the time he did THE DREAMER, Bill probably believed the heroic version of his story and drew it up as such.
Yoc:
That wouldn't surprise me at all DM.
Part 4 is now up - DC VS VICTOR FOX: The Testimony of Jerry Siegel
which has even more interesting things to show!
http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2010/07/dc-vs-victor-fox-testimony-of-jerry.html
Anyone here know if Victor Fox was ever the owner of Colonial News Inc., his one time distributer per 1942?
-Yoc
archiver_USA:
--- Quote from: Yoc on July 11, 2010, 12:17:46 PM ---That wouldn't surprise me at all DM.
Part 4 is now up - DC VS VICTOR FOX: The Testimony of Jerry Siegel
which has even more interesting things to show!
http://thecomicsdetective.blogspot.com/2010/07/dc-vs-victor-fox-testimony-of-jerry.html
Anyone here know if Victor Fox was ever the owner of Colonial News Inc., his one time distributer per 1942?
-Yoc
--- End quote ---
Found this while searching for Colonial News
As for Colonial News Co. ownership, all I can find is this mention: "Colonial News Co. (RTN) (Harris Freedland) 190 W. End" in The Trow (formerly Wilson's) copartnership and corporation directory of New York for 1909 (found via Google Books). And in Jon Berk's article on Victor Fox he states "This was due, probably, in no small part to the fact its distributor, Colonial News, Inc. went under, owing Fox Publishing $173,551" which makes it sound like Fox was owed money by Colonial News, however neither piece of information confirms or denies Fox being a part/whole owner of Colonial at any point in time.
As an aside, does anyone know if there are "copartnership and corporation directory" books for the 1930-1950s? These might be useful tomes in identifying who applied for some of those one-off publishers we have trouble identifying.
Yoc:
Thanks for looking into it AU.
Being in Canada, I wouldn't know where to start looking for something like you were asking.
I'm betting JohnC might have an idea. Or Ed Love aka Cash Goreman.
-Yoc
John C:
Offhand, no. I'm also not entirely sure how likely it'd be, beyond a trip to someplace like the New York Public Library.
Unlike the Federal government, state governments can (and New York definitely does) reserve copyright on its works. Since incorporation is a state filing, stupid as it sounds, Albany technically owns those listings, limiting the chances someone would make them available.
I'll poke around, though, and see if I can find anything out.
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