Cardal Publishing was a British

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and

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active during the

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, based in

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. The company's publications included

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and

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, as well as comics. According to comic historian and critic Steve Holland, cash flow problems caused by obscenity fines forced the firm out of business before the end of the 1940s. The company was liquidated in 1951. The indicia to ''Streamline Comics'' notes that the comic was printed by The Assurance Agents Press, 132-4 Great Ancoats St, which was one street over from Cardal's Ducie Street offices.

Popular fiction magazines

* ''Western Magazine'' (c. 1947) * ''Girls' Journal'' (Aug 1947) * ''Gay-etty'' (c.1949) –

* ''Winter Frolics'' (1 issue?) (c. 1949) – erotic fiction

Other magazines

* ''Girl's Review'' (1947) (1 issue)

Novels

* ''The Man who Rode by Night'', by

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– pocket Western * ''One Man's War'', by Hank Johnson (1949) – pocket Western ''The Man Who Rode by Night'' / ''One Man's War'' were published in a single edition in the U.S.

Comics

* '' Streamline Comics'' #1–4 (1947) * ''New Worlds Comic'' (1947, reprint)

References

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