Magazine Management
Parent Cadence Industries | | |
Subsidiaries | Humorama Marvel Comics |
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Magazine Management Co., Inc. was an American
Founded by
Subsidiaries of Magazine Management included
History
Founded by
One division of the company was the
In late 1968, Goodman sold all his publishing businesses to the Perfect Film and Chemical Corporation, which made the subsidiary Magazine Management Company the parent company of all the acquired Goodman concerns. Goodman remained as publisher until 1972. Perfect Film and Chemical renamed itself Cadence Industries and renamed Magazine Management as Marvel Comics Group in 1973, the first of many changes, mergers, and acquisitions that led to what became the 21st century corporation Marvel Entertainment.[4][5]
Culture
As writer Dorothy Gallagher reminisced in 1998,
At Magazine Management, magazines were produced the way Detroit produced cars. I worked on the fan-magazine line. On the other side of a five-foot partition was the romance-magazine line. And across a corridor were the financial staples of the organization, the men's magazines — Stag, For Men Only, Male — for which, at one time or another, Mario Puzo, Bruce Jay Friedman, David Markson, Mickey Spillane and Martin Cruz Smith wrote, until they became too exalted and rich to do it anymore. I'm almost forgetting the comic-book line, where Stan Lee [co-]created Spider-Man, known to every connoisseur of classic comics. ... [Th]e decor was insurance-company blah: grayish white walls and foam-tile ceilings, overhead fluorescent fixtures, gray metal desks. Except for the executive offices, which faced Madison Avenue and had carpets and windows, the space was divided into jerrybuilt bull pens with head-high partitions. Editors got a glassed-in area in each bullpen.[2]
Author Adam Parfrey, in his book about men's adventure magazines, described how,
Most scribes laboring for Martin Goodman's Magazine Management firm and other repositories of adventure magazines spoke of feeling like well-compensated slaves of a very particular style ('man triumphant') that was not their own. This was not the style with which editor Bruce Jay Friedman felt most comfortable, and when editing publications for Martin Goodman he unsuccessfully tried to talk him out of running advertisements for trusses, an ad signalling the magazine's target audience: blue-collar yahoos. It would be years before he could raise his head at industry cocktail parties, when his acclaimed examples of 'black-humor fiction' were seen as appropriate material for a hipper, more monied crowd.[6]
Titles published
Comics magazines
Humor magazines
- Best Cartoons from the Editors of Male & Stag, Magazine Management—published at least from 1973 to 1975)[7]
- Cartoon Capers—published at least from vol. 4, #2 (1969) to vol. 10, #3 (1975)[7]
- Cartoon Laughs—confirmed extant: vol 12, #3 (1973)[7]
- Humorama titles
Men's-adventure and erotic magazines
Magazine Management's publications included such
Launched pre-1970
- Action Life — ran 16 issues, Atlas Magazines[9]
- Complete Man — published June 1965? to April 1967?, Atlas Magazines/Diamond[10]
- For Men Only[2][11] — confirmed at least from vol. 4, #11 (Dec. 1957) through at least vol. 26, #3 (March 1976)
- Published by Canam Publishers at least 1957), Newsstand Publications Inc. (at least 1966–1967), Perfect Film Inc. (at least 1968), Magazine Management Co. Inc. (at least 1970) [12]
- Male[2] — published at least vol. 1, #2 (July 1950) through 1977[13]
- Male Home Companion[citation needed]
- Stag[2] — at least 314 issues published February 1942 – Feb. 1976
- Published by Official Communications Inc. (1951), Official Magazines (Feb. 1952 – March 1958), Atlas (July 1958 – Oct. 1968), Magazine Management (Dec. 1970 to end) [14]
- Stag Annual — at least 18 issues published 1964–1975
- Published by Atlas (1964–1968), Magazine Management (1970–1975)
- Men published by Magazine Management.
1970s and later
- FILM International — covering R- through X-rated movies[11]
Other magazines
- Celebrity—extant in at least 1977[citation needed]
- Modern Movies [15]
- Movie World [2]
- Screen Stars [2][16]
References
- ISBN 978-1606995525.
- ^ a b c d e f g Gallagher, Dorothy (May 31, 1998). "Adventures in the Mag Trade". The New York Times. Archived from the original on April 17, 2009.
- ^ a b "Stan the Man & Roy the Boy: A Conversation Between Stan Lee and Roy Thomas". Comic Book Artist. No. 2. Summer 1998. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.
- ^ Nadel, Nick. "The Strange Business History of Marvel Comics". Comics Alliance. AOL. Archived from the original on 19 March 2012. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ISBN 9781433101076.
- ISBN 0-922915-81-4)
- ^ a b c Michigan State University Libraries: Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection Archived 2008-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Evanier, Mark (June 15, 2005). "The Marvel Age of Huge Breasts". P.O.V. Online (column). Archived from the original on March 29, 2010.
- ^ Action Life at the Magazine Data File.
- ^ Complete Man at the Magazine Data File.
- ^ a b "Sexy Magazines: Title List: F". Time Warp Collectibles. Archived from the original on February 11, 2012.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) Additional on July 24, 2010. - ^ For Men Only (1954) at the Magazine Data File.
- ^ "First Copyright Renewals for Periodicals", University of Pennsylvania Library. WebCitation archive.
- ^ Stag (1950) at the Magazine Data File.
- ISBN 978-1-60473-413-3.
- ^ Slide, p. 243