Fleetway Publications was a magazine publishing company based in London.

History

It was founded in 1959 when the

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acquired the

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, then based at Fleetway House, Farringdon Street, London. It was one of the companies that merged into the

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group in 1963, and the Fleetway banner continued to be used until 1968 when all IPC's publications were reorganised into the unitary

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. In 1987 IPC's comics line was sold to

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as Fleetway Publications. Egmont UK bought Fleetway from Maxwell in 1991, merging it with their own comics publishing operation, ''London Editions'', to form Fleetway Editions, but the name "Fleetway" ceased to appear on their comics some time after 2002. In August 2016,

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acquired the Fleetway library from Egmont, making it the owner of all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in '' Buster'' and ''

Roy of the Rovers ''Roy of the Rovers'' is a British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional association football, footballer and later Manager (association football), manager named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers. The strip first appeared ...

''. IPC retained its other comics characters and titles, including

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, The Steel Claw, and Battler Britton, until 2018 when it sold them to Rebellion too. The exception was

Dan Dare Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic series ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in ...

, which was sold separately and is now owned by the Dan Dare Corporation.

Notable titles published

References

External links

Complete List of Harmsworth/Fleetway/IPC comic titles
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