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Avon books was founded in 1941? by the American News Corporation to create a rival to Pocket Books. They bought J S Ogilvie Publications and renamed it Avon Publications. Ogilvie was a pulp magazine publisher partly owned by Joseph Myers, whom AMC had hired to establish Avon Books.
Avon published paperbacks with popular appeal - ghost stories, erotic stories, fantasy stories and science-fiction stories. Avon also produced series of digest-format paperbacks with such titles as Murder Mystery Monthly, Modern Short Story Monthly and Avon Fantasy Readers.
From 1945 through to the mid-1950s, Avon published comic books. Its titles included horror fiction, science fiction, Westerns, romance comics, war comics and funny-animal comics. Most titles lasted only a few issues.
The Heart Corporation bought Avon in 1959? and subsequently in 1999? the News Corporation bought out the whole of Heart's book division. The Avon label became an imprint of Harper Collins, mainly publishing romance novels.
Novels published by Avon:
- Battle Circle
- Chaining The Lady
- Cities In Flight
- Earthman, Come Home
- Executive
- Future Quest
- The Iron Maiden
- Kirlian Quest
- A Life For The Stars
- Mercenary
- Neq The Sword
- Politician
- Refugee
- Sos The Rope
- Statesman
- They Shall Have Stars
- Thousandstar
- The Triumph Of Time
- Var The Stick
- Vicinity Cluster
- Viscous Circle
Short stories published by Avon:
