{"api_url":"https://beta.comics.org/api/publisher/43/?format=json","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/","brand_count":3,"indicia_publisher_count":8,"series_count":28,"issue_count":26}