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Publisher: Export Newspaper Service
Years in Operation: 1942 - 1960
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Country: Flag United States Web Site: Brands: 0 Indicia Publishers: 2 Series: 17 Printings: 512 Disclose Notes: Export Newspaper Service was an American publisher that published Spanish language versions of American Comics. The year of their first activity has not yet been determined but is probably in the early to mid-1940s. ENS continued publication in the United States through the end of 1957 when the actual printing moved from Western Publishing to La Prensa in Mexico. Export Newspaper Service is known to have published material originated by Magazine Enterprises, Lev Gleason, Fiction House, EC, and Quality Comics. Their publications appear to have been distributed in the United States as well as in Latin America. Issues usually have no cover price but are priced 10¢ in the indicia and have subscription information in US dollars. Advertising is generally in Spanish but is for American companies. Export Newspaper Service, or ENS, continued as an imprint of La Prensa well into the 1960s. Clearly, a great deal more research is needed into this little-known aspect of the American comics publishing industry.   Does this data need corrections? Become an editor.
Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Acción Policiaca {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Based on other Export Newspaper Service titles, it is likely that all issues from the beginning until the end of 1957 (perhaps 80+ issues) were published in the United States by Export Newspaper Service and printed by Western Publishing. This has not yet been confirmed.
1951 - 1957 84
Confesiones de Amor {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Information from Michigan State University card catalog.
1956 - ? 31
Corsario {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published in Spanish in the United States under license from Entertaining Comics (EC). Distributed to Spanish language areas of the U.S.A. as well as all over Latin America.
1955 - 1957 7
Doll Man {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Spotted in a Export Newspaper Service house ad from circa 1953. No other details known.
1952 - ? 10
Grandes Detectives {Comic Books} 1956 - 1960 40
Hopalong Cassidy {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Spotted in house ad. No other details known.
1952 - 1953 3
Marvelito {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Information from the Michigan State University card catalog. Reprints Captain Marvel, Jr., in Spanish. In the stories the lead character (Captain Marvel Jr.) is called Marvelín.
1953 - 1954 11
Mi Pequeña Margie {Comic Books} 1959 - 1960 0
Oklahoma Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Information from the Michigan State University card catalog.
1957 - ? 38
Pirolo {Comic Books} 1953 - ? 1
Robin Hood {Comic Books} 1955 - 1957 16
Selva {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This series was apparently printed in the United States either by or under license from Fiction House and distributed to Spanish speaking markets in the USA, to Central America, and to Mexico. If it follows the pattern of other titles from the same publisher, production was probably entirely in the United States until about 1958. At that time the actual printing was probably switched to Mexico. So far, very little information has come to light on US produced Spanish language comics of the golden age.
1942 - 1960 85
Selva {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: This series was printed in the United States under license from Fiction House and distributed to Spanish speaking markets in the USA, to Central America, and to Mexico. If it follows the pattern of other titles from the same publisher, production was probably entirely in the United States until about 1958. At that time the actual printing was probably switched to Mexico. So far, very little information has come to light on US produced Spanish language comics of the golden age.
1952 - 1960 85
Valor {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published in Spanish in the United States under license from EC. Distributed to Spanish language areas of the U.S.A. as well as all over Latin America. After EC comics were done, the series went to sci-fi and terror from Charlton, and then the title changed to Valor del Oeste -with reprints of Charlton's Wyatt Earp.
1955 - 1957 22
Valor del Oeste {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Published in Spanish in the United States under license from Charlton; numbering continues from Valor, with Wyatt Earp stories.
1957 - ? 43
Vengador {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Information from the Michigan State University card catalog.
1955 - 1956 8
El Zorro {Comic Books} 1958 - 1960 28

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