Type | subsidiary |
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Industry | magazines |
Founded | 1946 |
Headquarters | New Milford, NJ, USA |
Services | Distribution retail marketing publisher support services |
Parent | Curtis Publishing Company (1946-1969) Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation/ Cadence Industries (1969-1986) Hachette Distribution Services Lagardere SCA |
Website | curtiscirc.com |
Curtis Circulation Company, LLC is a company that is in the magazines distribution business. It is also known for lending its name to an affiliated company, Marvel Comics Group, for a line of magazines, Curtis Magazines.
Curtis Circulation Company started out as Curtis Publishing Company's circulation department, becoming an official subsidiary of in 1946.[1]
In 1968, Perfect Film & Chemical Corporation loaned $5 million to Curtis Publishing Company, publisher of the Saturday Evening Post, at the request of Curtis' primary loan holder, First National Bank of Boston.[2] Despite attempts to revive the Post 's circulation, and with the lack of a purchaser, Curtis Publishing shut the magazine down in 1969.
In the fall of 1968, Perfect Film bought out publisher Martin Goodman — owner of Magazine Management Company, the parent of Marvel Comics and other ventures — and made Magazine Management the direct subsidiary. It placed the other corporations as subsidiaries of that.[3] Perfect Film purchased Curtis Circulation that same year from Curtis Publishing Company.[4] Beginning in 1969 (and lasting until the parent's company's sale of Marvel in 1986), Curtis became the official distributor of Marvel Comics.
In 1973, Perfect Film renamed itself Cadence Industries.[3] When Cadence Industries was liquidated in 1986, it sold Curtis Circulation to Joseph M. Walsh and Hachette Distribution Services.[1]
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