Formerly | Hall Syndicate (1944–1946) New York Post Syndicate (1946–1949) Post-Hall Syndicate, Inc. (1949–1955) Hall Syndicate (1955–1967) |
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Company type | Subsidiary |
Industry | Print syndication |
Founded | 1944 |
Founder | Robert M. Hall |
Defunct | 1975 |
Fate | merged into Field Newspaper Syndicate |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | United States |
Key people | Allen Saunders (writer, "continuity" editor) Harold Anderson |
Products | Comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons |
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Publishers-Hall Syndicate was a newspaper syndicate founded by Robert M. Hall in 1944. Hall served as the company's president and general manager. Over the course of its operations, the company was known as, sequentially, the Hall Syndicate (1944–1946), the New York Post Syndicate (1946–1949), the Post-Hall Syndicate (1949–1955), the Hall Syndicate (1955–1967), and Publishers-Hall Syndicate (1967–1975). The syndicate was acquired by Field Enterprises in 1967, and merged into Field Newspaper Syndicate in 1975. Some of the more notable strips syndicated by the company include Pogo, Dennis the Menace, Funky Winkerbean, Mark Trail, The Strange World of Mr. Mum, and Momma, as well as the cartoons of Jules Feiffer.