Status Defunct Founded 1901 | Headquarters location Fleetway House Successor Time Inc. UK | |
Founder Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe | ||
The Amalgamated Press was a newspaper and magazine publishing company founded by journalist and entrepreneur Alfred Harmsworth in 1901, gathering his many publishing ventures together under one banner.
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From 1912 they were based at Fleetway House in Farringdon Street, London. In 1959 the company was bought by the Mirror Group and renamed Fleetway Publications. It acquired Longacre Press and George Newnes in 1961, and the group was renamed the International Publishing Corporation in 1963, although the component companies continued to use their own names until 1968 when they were reorganised into the unitary IPC Magazines. The "Fleetway" banner continued to be used for some publications until IPC's comics line was sold under the name Fleetway Publications to Robert Maxwell in 1987.
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Comics and story papers
Amalgamated Press entered the comic magazine market in 1890 with Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips. It also published serialized story papers (in for example The Thriller magazine) which published stories by Edwy Searles Brooks, among others.
Rebellion Developments currently owns all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in Buster; while IPC currently retains its other comics characters and titles, including Sexton Blake, The Steel Claw, and Battler Britton (but not Dan Dare, which was sold separately and is now owned by the Dan Dare Corporation).