Publisher Instance

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    "api_url": "https://beta.comics.org/api/publisher/43/",
    "country": "us",
    "modified": "2025-06-09T18:53:36Z",
    "name": "Doubleday",
    "year_began": 1897,
    "year_ended": 1988,
    "year_began_uncertain": false,
    "year_ended_uncertain": false,
    "year_overall_began": null,
    "year_overall_ended": null,
    "year_overall_began_uncertain": false,
    "year_overall_ended_uncertain": false,
    "notes": "Founded in 1897 as Doubleday & McClure Company, Doubleday encompasses many publisher names and imprints.  In 1900 the company became Doubleday, Page & Company; in 1927 Doubleday merged with George H. Doran Company, creating Doubleday, Doran; the business became known as Doubleday & Company in 1946.\r\n\r\nAnchor Books was launched as a paperback imprint in 1953 and Image was added as a line of religious trade paperbacks soon after. \r\n\r\nDoubleday was sold to Bertelsmann, AG, a Germany-based worldwide communications company in 1986. In 1988 it became part of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group ",
    "url": "http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/history/",
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    "series_count": 28,
    "issue_count": 26
}