Metropolitan Newspaper Service

Metropolitan Newspaper Service
IndustryPrint syndication
Founded1919; 105 years ago (1919)
FounderMaximilian Elser, Jr.[1]
Defunct1932; 92 years ago (1932)
Fatemerged into United Feature Syndicate
Headquarters220 E. 42nd Street,
New York, NY
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Key people
Maximilian Elser, Jr. (President)
George Carlin (Editorial Staff Chief)
ProductsColumns, Comic strips
OwnerGeorge Brinton McClellan Harvey (1919–1920)
John Neville Wheeler (1920–1930)
E. W. Scripps Company (1930–1932)
ParentMetropolitan Magazine (1919–1920)
Bell Syndicate (1920–1930)
United Feature Syndicate (1930–1932)

Metropolitan Newspaper Service (MNS) was a syndication service based in New York City that operated from 1919 to 1932. At first the syndication service of Metropolitan Magazine, it soon became affiliated with the Bell Syndicate, and then was acquired and absorbed into United Feature Syndicate.

A couple of notable, long-running comic strips originated with MNS: Tarzan and Ella Cinders. The service syndicated writers like Margot Asquith, Gertrude Atherton, Joseph Conrad, and Booth Tarkington.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cornell Alumni News, XII (4), 20 October 1909.