Cupples & Leon

It is associated with United States. The record gives 1902 as its date of establishment or first appearance. Activity is recorded as ending in 2012. Its recorded seat is New York City. The recorded field of activity is comics industry and publishing.

• Name — Cupples & Leon • Founded — 1902 • Founder — Victor I. Cupples and Arthur T. Leon • Successor — Platt & Munk • Country — United States • Headquarters — New York City • Publications — Books • Genre — juvenile fiction and children's books • Website — https: cupplesandleon.com

In 1903, Cupples & Leon collected such strips as The Katzenjammer Kids, Alphonse and Gaston, Happy Hooligan, On and Off the Ark, Poor Lil Mose and The Tigers. Their major competitor in books of comic strip reprints was Frederick A. Stokes, who died in 1939. To reprint comic strips, the company offered, for 25 cents, a square-bound paperback format of 52 pages of black-and-white strips. The flexible, cardboard covers were printed in black and red. Between 1906 and 1934, Cupples & Leon published more than 100 titles in that format. They collected Bringing Up Father, Little Orphan Annie, Mutt and Jeff, Reg'lar Fellers, Smitty, Tillie the Toiler and other leading strips of the 1920s and 1930s. They produced at least 18 reprint collections of Mutt and Jeff daily strips, in 10" × 10" softcover books from 1919 to 1934. In 1921, they negotiated a contract to sell $405,000 worth of these books to magazine distributor American News Company, at the time one of the largest publishing contracts ever signed. They also published two larger hardcover editions, Mutt and Jeff Big Book (1926) and Mutt and Jeff Big Book No. 2 (1929). They left the comic strip reprint field in 1934, concentrating on their juvenile lines, just as the modern day comic book was introduced that same year with Famous Funnies. Leon estimated the company sold more than 35,000,000 copies of its comics reprints. • Illustration — Tillie the Toiler (Cupples & Leon, 1925)

Victor Cupples died in Mount Vernon, New York in July 1941. Arthur Leon, who lived in New Rochelle, New York, died in December 1943, and his wife, Louise Heroy Leon, died five years later in February 1948. The Platt & Munk publishing firm acquired Cupples & Leon in 1956.

The following is established of the heading itself. Recorded from 1902. It is also recorded that cupples & Leon is associated with United States.