18 Facts About Fawcett Publications

Fawcett Publications was an American publishing company founded in 1919 in Robbinsdale, Minnesota by Wilford Hamilton "Captain Billy" Fawcett .

Fawcett Publications became a publisher of paperbacks in 1950 with the opening of Gold Medal Books.

At the age of 16, Fawcett Publications ran away from home to join the Army, and the Spanish–American War took him to the Philippines.

Fawcett Publications continued to do covers for Fawcett into the 1930s, and when Fawcett opened Manhattan offices in 1934, Saunders and other staffers relocated to New York.

Fawcett Publications created Fawcett's Mechanix Illustrated Do-It-Yourself Encyclopedia and The Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia, which had combined sales of almost 20 million copies.

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Fawcett Publications was an independent newsstand distributor, and in 1945, the company negotiated a contract with New American Library to distribute their Mentor and Signet titles.

In 1949, Roscoe Fawcett Publications wanted to establish a line of Fawcett Publications paperbacks, and he felt original paperbacks would not be a violation of the contract.

Fawcett Publications's editor-in-chief was Ralph Daigh, who had been hired by Captain Billy in 1928, and the art director for Gold Medal was Al Allard, who had been with Fawcett Publications since 1928.

In 1952, when their contract with NAL expired, Fawcett Publications immediately began doing reprints through several imprints.

Fawcett Publications Crest was perhaps best known for their many abridged collections of the Peanuts comic strip titles originally published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston.

Captain Billy and Claire Fawcett Publications had four sons and a daughter: Roger, Wilford, Marion Claire, Gordon Wesley and the youngest, Roscoe.

Roscoe Fawcett was a veteran of World War II, serving in the anti-aircraft division of the U S Army, and later was in charge of entertainment for Camp Haan in Riverside, California.

Fawcett Publications was married twice, had four sons and died at the age of 86 in Brainerd, Minnesota.

Fawcett Publications married Vivian Peterson in 1935 and moved to Los Angeles where he was Fawcett Publications' office manager.

Gordon Fawcett Publications had four children: Vivian Creigh of Tucson, Arizona, and his three sons, Dennis of Greenwich; David of Stuart, Florida; and Gordon Jr.

Fawcett Publications was bought by CBS Publications in 1977 for $50 million.

Fawcett Publications became the official home of Ballantine's mass market mystery program.

The original Fawcett Publications building, which remained standing in Robbinsdale for decades, was torn down during the mid-1990s.