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rdfs:comment | - Holyoke is sometimes confused with companies owned by Frank Z. Temerson, including Helnit, Et-Es-Go, and Continental; with Worth Carnahan's Bilbara Publishing Company; and with Temerson's art director L. B. Cole's packaging clients Narrative Publishers and Aviation Press.
- The Holyoke Publishing Company was an American comic-book publisher founded by Frank Temerson in 1940, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, its best-known original characters were the superhero duo Cat-Man (later rendered as Catman, sans hyphen) and Kitten, created by an unknown writer with artist Irwin Hasen in Crash Comics Adventures #4 (Aug. 1940). Holyoke also was an early licensor of radio heroes, having success with comic books starring the costumed crimefighter the Green Hornet.
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Status | - defunct, 1946
- defunct, 1948
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Company Name | - Holyoke Publishing Company
- The Holyoke Publishing Company
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- Continental Publishing
- Narrative Publishers
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abstract | - Holyoke is sometimes confused with companies owned by Frank Z. Temerson, including Helnit, Et-Es-Go, and Continental; with Worth Carnahan's Bilbara Publishing Company; and with Temerson's art director L. B. Cole's packaging clients Narrative Publishers and Aviation Press.
- The Holyoke Publishing Company was an American comic-book publisher founded by Frank Temerson in 1940, during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Based in Holyoke, Massachusetts, its best-known original characters were the superhero duo Cat-Man (later rendered as Catman, sans hyphen) and Kitten, created by an unknown writer with artist Irwin Hasen in Crash Comics Adventures #4 (Aug. 1940). Holyoke also was an early licensor of radio heroes, having success with comic books starring the costumed crimefighter the Green Hornet.
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