Founded | 1949 |
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Founder | Elliott Caplin |
Defunct | 1955 |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | New York City |
Publication types | Comic books |
Fiction genres | Licensed characters, romance, war, Westerns, adventure, talking animals |
Imprints | Minoan |
Toby Press was an American comic-book company that published from 1949 to 1955. Founded by Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp and himself an established comic strip writer, the company published reprints of Capp's Li'l Abner strip; licensed-character comics starring such film and animated cartoon properties as John Wayne and Felix the Cat; and original conceptions, including romance, war, Western, and adventure comics. Some of its comics were published under the imprint Minoan. Some covers bore the logo ANC, standing for American News Company, at the time the country's largest newsstand distributor.
It is unrelated to the book publisher Toby Press, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2010.[1]