McClure Newspaper Syndicate , the first American newspaper syndicate , introduced many American and British writers to the masses. Launched in 1884 by publisher Samuel S. McClure , it was the first successful company of its kind. It turned the marketing of comic strips , columns , book serials and other editorial matter into a large industry, and a century later, 300 syndicates were distributing 10,000 features with combined sales of $ 100 million a year.
28-714: In 1886, McClure's college friend, John Sanborn Phillips, joined the Syndicate, and his cousin, Henry Herbert McClure, was also on the staff. Samuel McClure's brother, Robert McClure, was in charge of the London office. Allen Sangree had a position with the McClure Syndicate in 1892. In 1914, the McClure family sold the Syndicate to J. C. Brainard, who acquired the Wheeler Syndicate in 1916. Brainard sold
56-533: A daily comic panel, That Rookie from the Thirteenth Squad , for the McClure Syndicate, writing and drawing it from the front in France while serving as a first lieutenant in the 77th Division, AEF. The panel was collected into his first two books, That Rookie of the Thirteenth Squad (1917) and Between Shots (1919). The syndicate also introduced newspaper readers to the art of James Montgomery Flagg and
84-582: A look-in." ... Quite a few of our old friends and acquaintances have left us Sid. Are Alan Sangree and Bill MacBeth still present? And is Bill Farnsworth still on that Atlanta paper? ..." Died March 2, 1924, in Trenton, N.J., after having been hospitalized for a breakdown two years earlier. A turn of the century (1900s) writer. 1892 he had a position with McClure's syndicate in New York and wrote for McClure's . "General DeWet and His Campaign,"
112-643: A newspaper into halves and then into quarters and, finding that a convenient book size, led him to have to Eastern Color publish Funnies on Parade . Like The Funnies but 32 pages, this, too, was a newsprint magazine. Rather than using original material, however, it reprinted in color several comic strips licensed from the McNaught Syndicate , the Ledger Syndicate , and the Bell-McClure Syndicate . This periodical, however,
140-543: A possible connection to William Nelson Cromwell and the Panama Canal . Allen was unable to locate them, reported back to the editorial staff with no story and the assignment was crossed off. However Allen's investigation did appear to have stirred up William Nelson Cromwell 's PR staff who approached Caleb Van Hamm (the managing editor) and "demanded ... what the World meant by getting after his boss without giving him
168-614: Is a reference in the Congressional Record Briefly, Mr. Brownell sent Allen Sangree to Maine last February or March to assist Dr. Crockett in preparing the book on Gompers' career in Maine.... Funnies on Parade Funnies on Parade is an American giveaway publication of 1933 that was a precursor of comic books . The eight-page publication featured reprints of such popular syndicated comic strips as The Bungle Family , Joe Palooka , Keeping Up with
196-432: Is one of the distinguished men who risked their lives to present to the world a vivid account of what many military men believe to be the most wonderful campaign ever fought in any age." Portions of Mr. Sangree's article are extremely pathetic. He speaks of the young Burghers, "many of them mere school children whose astonishing adventures will scarcely be believed by posterity," who will nevertheless, "go down in history as
224-524: Is the title of a well-written and beautifully Illustrated article in the May number of The Cosmopolitan. To quote the editor of this magazine: "Nothing which has appeared in The Cosmopolitan for a long time will be received with as much interest as this authentic picture of General De Wet, the strategist, and his campaign. Mr. Allen Sangree, who was with General De Wet in a large number of his campaigns,
252-507: The Ledger Syndicate of Philadelphia , printing Sunday color comics from 7 in × 9 in (180 mm × 230 mm) plates. Eastern Color sales manager Harry I. Wildenberg and his coworkers – salesperson Maxwell Gaines and owner George Janosik – realized that two such plates would fit on a tabloid-sized page. Soon after, in April 1933, Wildenberg created the first modern-format comic book when, according to legend, he folded
280-483: The Library of Congress as "a short-lived newspaper tabloid insert". This is not to be confused with Dell's later same-name comic book, which began publication in 1936. Comics historian Ron Goulart describes the four-color , newsstand periodical as "more a Sunday comic section without the rest of the newspaper than a true comic book". In early 1933, Eastern Color began producing small comic broadsides for
308-713: The Giants and the Highlanders then the lamb ever stuck to Mary, there will be little of straight baseball or the humorous incident characteristic of the game that readers of the Evening World will miss. In fact, Mr. Sangree and Mr. Bulger are sure to knock out a home run every day. Started writing as one of the featured baseball writers for the New York Evening World on March 11, 1905 Allen Sangree, newspaper man, author, world-wanderer, and one of
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#1732772247652336-512: The Joneses , Mutt and Jeff , Reg'lar Fellers , and Somebody's Stenog . Creators included F. O. Alexander , Gene Byrnes , Al Capp , Clare Victor Dwiggins , A. E. Hayward , C. M. Payne , Al Smith , and Harry J. Tuthill . The creation of the modern American comic book came in stages. Dell Publishing in 1929 published a 16-page, newsprint periodical of original, comic strip -styled material titled The Funnies and described by
364-568: The McClure Syndicate to Richard H. Waldo in 1928. After Waldo died in 1943, his widow, Adelaide P. Waldo, ran the syndicate for three years, passing it on to James L. Lenahan in 1946. Lenahan's failure to meet a due payment on the stock led to a September 1952 auction when it was acquired by Ernest Cuneo , head of the Bell Syndicate - North American Newspaper Alliance group, with Louis Ruppel installed as president and editor. The company briefly dabbled into comic book production in 1936 under
392-643: The McClure strips were reprinted during the 1930s in Funnies on Parade . In addition to comic strips and feature articles, McClure also syndicated books and stories. In 1938, Theodore Sturgeon sold his first story to the McClure Syndicate, which bought many of his early, mainstream stories before he became known for his science fiction. In the late 1930s, the company was located at 75 West Street in New York City. Allen Sangree Allen Luther Sangree , also as Allan or Alan (c. 1878 – March 2, 1924)
420-440: The attainment of this literature is represented in this bright, clever and interesting volume from the pen of Mr. Sangree Poet "Your Old Uncle Sam", which was put to the music of "The Old Grey Mare" There is a reference to Allen Sangree in the papers of Samuel Gompers where a friend, writes ... The Manufacturer's Association has organized a "Secret Service" system, the business of which will be to procure information as to
448-440: The bravest of the brave." Speaking of De Wet an author says: "Compared with his achievements, those of Baden-Powell or Kitchener are like a burning match dropped in the ocean." The fundamental reason for the popularity of the game is the fact that it is a national safety valve. Voltaire says that there are no real pleasures without real needs. Now a young, ambitious and growing nation needs to "let off steam." Baseball furnishes
476-461: The cleverest pencillers who ever sat behind the wired screen at a baseball game, is a happy husband today ... Married Kate Bradley (1888–1952) on November 4, 1905 On October 2, 1908 Allen Sangree was asked by William McMutrie Speer (a member of the editorial staff of the New York World ) via the city editor George Carteret, to locate some Panamanians who had recently came to town with
504-466: The early cartoons of Clare Victor Dwiggins and Rube Goldberg . After employment as a newspaperman in Arizona, California and Hawaii, Harold Matson worked for the McClure Syndicate as a roving correspondent and became managing editor by 1930. Matson later became a literary agent to some of the most illustrious authors in the world. Sheldon Mayer also joined the Syndicate as an editor in 1936. Some
532-502: The first "behind the news" column from Washington, along with columns on fashions, interior decorating and international affairs, as well as a column by Calvin Coolidge . In the 1930s, the syndicate distributed a number of " Whirligig " columns: Louis M. Schneider's Financial Whirligig , Frederic Sondern's European Whirligig , Ray Tucker's Washington Whirligig , and National Whirligig (1934–1936). One early McClure comic strip artist
560-496: The habits of labor leaders, and for the purpose of obtaining evidence of something of a criminal character against such leaders. I am informed that they are particularly anxious to get something on you.... A man named Allen Sangree is the general manager, and the information that I have is that he has fifty men employed under him. This Mr. Sangree was formerly employed on the New York Journal as its "Sporting Editor" There
588-402: The leadership of Max Gaines, where partnered with Dell Publishing , to produce three of Dell's comic books, The Funnies , Popular Comics and The Comics , and Dell would finance and distribute these comics, until Gaines quit McClure to start All-American Publications in 1939. As America's first profitable literary syndicate, the company bought an author's work for about $ 150 and then sold
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#1732772247652616-467: The opportunity. Therefore, it is a real pleasure.... That is what baseball does for humanity. It serves the same purpose as a revolution in Central America or a thunderstorm on a hot day.... A tonic, an exercise, a safety-valve, baseball is second only to Death as a leveler. So long as it remains our national game, America will abide no monarchy, and anarchy will be too slow Mr. Allen Sangree,
644-576: The right to print it to a newspaper for five dollars. The company lost money during its first few years, eventually turning a profit while distributing and promoting such American luminaries as George Ade , John Kendrick Bangs , William Jennings Bryan , Joel Chandler Harris , William Dean Howells , Fannie Hurst , Sarah Orne Jewett , Jack London , Theodore Roosevelt , Mark Twain and Woodrow Wilson . The roster of British writers included G. K. Chesterton , Arthur Conan Doyle , Rudyard Kipling , Robert Louis Stevenson and H. G. Wells . McClure carried
672-579: The trouble between Great Britain and the South Africa Republic prior to the Boer war . He reported for Collier's during the Boer War as well as for Cosmopolitan ... Incidentally the favorite baseball paper this summer, if merit counts in making popularity, will be the Evening World. With the best baseball men in the country, Allen Sangree and Bozeman Bulger , sticking closer to
700-440: The well-known sporting writer, has made a most valuable addition to baseball literature by his recent volume of tales from the diamond. This attractive little book published by the G. W. Dillingham Co., contains seven thrilling stories which embody in full measure, all the fire and dash and enthusiasm of the great game they typify. ... It is most fitting that baseball should have a literature all its own, and no inconsiderable step in
728-730: Was Carl Thomas Anderson , who drew Herr Spiegelberger, the Amateur Cracksman beginning in 1903. In 1916, McClure purchased the Wheeler Syndicate from John Neville Wheeler . Another early comic strip artist with McClure was Percy Crosby . Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Officer Reserve Corps in 1916 and being called to active service the following year, Crosby was in training at a camp in Plattsburgh, New York. While in training, Crosby created
756-554: Was an American sports writer and war journalist. Father: Milton H. Sangree, Mother: Jane E. Hudson. Born around 1878, most likely in the area of Harrisburg or Steelton, Pennsylvania . Attended Gettysburg College (class of 1892) Member of the Sigma Chi Theta fraternity On the staff of the New York Sun some time around 1896 With the New York World as a correspondent traveling to Africa reporting on
784-485: Was neither sold nor available on newsstands , but rather sent free as a promotional item to consumers who mailed in coupons clipped from Procter & Gamble soap and toiletries products. Ten-thousand copies were made. The promotion proved a success, and Eastern Color that year produced similar periodicals for Canada Dry soft drinks , Kinney Shoes , Wheatena cereal and others, with print runs of from 100,000 to 250,000. In addition to Gaines, those associated with
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