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| Founded | 1943 |
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| Founder | Vin Sullivan |
| Defunct | 1958 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City, New York |
| Key people | Bob Powell, Dick Ayers, Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster |
| Publication types | Comic books |
| Fiction genres | Western, humor, crime, adventure, children's |
Magazine Enterprises was an American comic book company lasting from 1943 to 1958, which published primarily Western, humor, crime, adventure, and children's comics, with virtually no superheroes. It was founded by Vin Sullivan, an editor at Columbia Comics and before that the editor at National Allied Publications, the future DC Comics.
Magazine Enterprises' characters include the jungle goddess Cave Girl, drawn by Bob Powell, and Ghost Rider, a horror fiction-themed Western avenger created by writer Ray Krank and artist Dick Ayers in 1949; after the trademark lapsed, Ayers and others adapted it as Marvel Comics' non-horror but otherwise near-identical Western character Ghost Rider in 1967.
Magazine Enterprises should not be confused with the same-name Scottish company that published science fiction magazines from at least 1946 to 1960.