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    Founded in 1855, Street & Smith was a New York publisher of inexpensive paperbacks and magazines called pulp fiction or dime novels, as well as comic books and sporting yearbooks.

    Short summary describing this company.

    Street and Smith last edited by downinthesewer on 03/31/23 08:31PM View full history

    sFrancis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began their publishing partnership when they bought an old fiction magazine. In 1858 they bought the New York Weekly Dispatch, in 1933 they bought some tittles from Clayton Magazine which included "Astonishing Stories". In 1937 Street & Smith discontinued many of their pulp tittles such as "Complete Stories" and "Top-Notch".

    Street & Smith stopped publishing pulps and comics in 1949 when sales declined due to the advent of television. They sold many of their tittles to Popular Publications. Conde Nast Publications bought them out in 1959. The company name continued to be used on the sports pre-season magazine until 2007. American City Business Journals acquired the Sporting News and merged Street and Smith in to TSN's annuals.

    Street & Smith were responsible for creating such classic pulp characters as The Shadow, The Avenger, Justice Inc, and Doc Savage.

    The other characters originally published by Street and Smith were

    Ajax, The Sun Man

    Bill Barnes

    Black Dragon

    The Black Fury V

    Cap Fury

    Crime Wizard

    Dazaar, the Arch Fiend

    Devil Kyoti

    Doc Savage (Street and Smith, Gold Key, Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Dynamite)

    Dr. Quartz

    Frank Merriwell

    Frank Reed

    Gadget Man (first creation of Lester Dent. This lead to the Dent's creation of The Shadow)

    Hooded Wasp with sidekicks Wasplet and Honey Wasp

    Iron Ghost

    Iron Munro, the Astonishing Man (Street and Smith version)

    I. V. Frost (Street and Smith, Moonstone)

    John Sunlight (Street and Smith, DC, Dynamite)

    The Joker (Detective Story Magazine 1919)

    Justice, Inc (Street and Smith, DC, Dynamite)

    Metal Master (Street and Smith, Marvel)

    Monstradamus (First multi-arc Shadow villian)

    Nick Carter

    Norgil the Magician

    Professor Solarus, The Space Master

    Red Dragon (Street and Smith version)

    The Avenger (Street and Smith, DC, Dynamite)

    The Shadow (Street and Smith, DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Dynamite)

    Shiwan Khan (Street and Smith, DC, Dynamite)

    Spider (Street and Smith version)

    The Talon

    Thunderbolt (Street and Smith version)

    Vanisher (Street and Smith, Marvel)

    Voodoo Master (Street and Smith, Dynamite)

    White Rook

    Dynamite publishes The Shadow. Shadow was published by DC. DC was publishing The Avenger, Doc Savage, and Justice Inc. before Dynamite picked up the publishing rights to all the characters.

    Street & Smith was purchased by Conde Nast in 1959.

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    For a list of Street and Smith publications including the pulp work see Wikipedia.org.

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