Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a publishing company, mainly producing comic magazines for the UK. A British comic is a periodical published in the United Kingdom that contains comic strips The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located
Fleetway began life as Amalgamated Press, the company owned by Alfred Harmsworth, who were based in Fleetway House. Alfred Charles William Harmsworth 1st Viscount Northcliffe ( 15 July[[ 865]] - 14 August[[ 922]] rose from childhood poverty to become a powerful British newspaper Amalgamated Press entered the comic magazine market as early as 1890 with Comic Cuts and Illustrated Chips. Jack Shepherd (born 29 October 1940 is an English Actor, Playwright, Theatre director, Saxophone player and Jazz It also published serialized novel papers (in for example The Thriller magazine) such that published stories by Edwy Searles Brooks, among others. Edwy Searles Brooks ( 11 November 1889 - 2 December 1965) was a British Novelist who also wrote under the Pseudonyms
In 1959[1] the name of the company was changed from Amalgamated Press to Fleetway Publications. In 1963, Fleetway Publications was merged with George Newnes Publishers and Odhams Press to form IPC Media. Sir George Newnes 1st Baronet ( 13 March 1851 – 9 June 1910) was a Publisher and editor in England. Odhams Press was a British publishing firm Originally a Newspaper group in the 1890s it took the name Odham's Press Ltd IPC Media is one of the United Kingdom 's leading consumer Magazine and digital publisher with a large portfolio selling over 350 million copies each year The name of Fleetway was still used to identify the comics magazine publishing arm of IPC, although some comics were published in IPC's name. In 1987 all comics were collected into the Fleetway arm and sold to Robert Maxwell. Ian Robert Maxwell MC ( June 10, 1923 – November 5, 1991) was a Czechoslovakian born British Media proprietor
In 1991, this Fleetway division was bought by Egmont, who merged it with their own British based comic publishing division, London Editions, to create Fleetway Editions. Egmont is one of the leading Media industry groups of Scandinavia. At some point after 2002 the name of Fleetway Editions ceased to be used by Egmont on its publications.
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