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  • Holyoke Publishing
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  • 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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  • Holyoke Publishing Company
  • The Holyoke Publishing Company
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imprints
  • Bilbara Publishing
  • Continental Publishing
  • Narrative Publishers
Founded
  • 1940
  • 1941
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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