Publisher List
Read-only publisher endpoints for the public v2 API surface.
GET /api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=22
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In 1962, while in financial difficulty, the company was purchased by Presses de la Cité which renamed it Arédit from a former short-lived imprint and publication continued through 1987, using both the Arédit and Artima names.", "series_count": 422, "issue_count": 11979, "brand_count": 33, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2000-06-03T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-08-16T19:52:20Z" }, { "id": 16150, "name": "Areia Hostil", "year_began": 2001, "year_ended": 2006, "country": "br", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-07-11T14:42:53Z", "modified": "2021-07-11T14:42:53Z" }, { "id": 18829, "name": "Arena", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "Was gevestigd in Amsterdam.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-03-28T06:40:49Z", "modified": "2025-04-02T14:21:35Z" }, { "id": 10578, "name": "Arena", "year_began": 1949, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "http://www.arena-verlag.de/", "notes": "", "series_count": 14, "issue_count": 14, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2015-11-17T00:49:49Z", "modified": "2020-01-27T13:54:31Z" }, { "id": 14651, "name": "Arena Magazine Publishing", "year_began": 1992, "year_ended": 1994, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-07-09T18:11:39Z", "modified": "2019-07-09T18:33:11Z" }, { "id": 6995, "name": "Arendal bibliotek", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-11-02T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:20Z" }, { "id": 17815, "name": "Arévalo y García", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": 1995, "country": "es", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-09-25T04:31:13Z", "modified": "2023-09-25T17:35:06Z" }, { "id": 9381, "name": "Arf Cartoons", "year_began": 1990, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 153, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-08-17T18:44:27Z", "modified": "2020-07-21T10:44:39Z" }, { "id": 2645, "name": "Arf! Arf! Studios", "year_began": 1986, "year_ended": 1986, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Mid 1980's black and white publisher", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2005-10-24T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-12-17T04:45:26Z" }, { "id": 7090, "name": "Argasso bokförlag AB", "year_began": 2002, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "http://www.argasso.se", "notes": "Founded in 2002, Argasso bokförlag specializes in easy reading fiction for children or people with dyslexia. In 2010, they released their first comics publication: a comics adaption of Frankenstein under the imprint \"Klassiska seriealbum.\" More classics adaptations have been announced.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-12-16T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:20Z" }, { "id": 18034, "name": "Argemmios editions", "year_began": 2010, "year_ended": 2015, "country": "fr", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-01-15T20:59:19Z", "modified": "2024-01-16T18:10:30Z" }, { "id": 11924, "name": "Argo", "year_began": 1992, "year_ended": null, "country": "cz", "url": "https://argo.cz/", "notes": "", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-02-23T05:38:33Z", "modified": "2025-05-04T13:03:39Z" }, { "id": 3235, "name": "Argo Press", "year_began": 1999, "year_ended": 2022, "country": "us", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240901233738/http://www.ramonschenk.nl/charltoncomics/charltonspotlight/", "notes": "Started by science fiction and comics fan [gcd_link_creator](21179).", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-10-14T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-05-28T11:24:35Z" }, { "id": 6725, "name": "Argo Press [1990s]", "year_began": 1995, "year_ended": 1997, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Englewood Cliffs, NJ publisher.", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 14, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-06-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-03-01T15:31:28Z" }, { "id": 264, "name": "Argo Publications", "year_began": 1955, "year_ended": 1956, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 14, "issue_count": 28, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-02-25T15:33:06Z" }, { "id": 17244, "name": "Argo; Paseka", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "cz", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-12-02T05:44:48Z", "modified": "2022-12-02T11:16:40Z" }, { "id": 15921, "name": "Argo; Paseka; Český olympijský výbor", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "cz", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-03-10T18:24:58Z", "modified": "2021-03-11T11:34:23Z" }, { "id": 14801, "name": "Argos", "year_began": 1969, "year_ended": 1979, "country": "es", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 93, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-09-28T19:12:11Z", "modified": "2024-02-05T19:31:57Z" }, { "id": 3217, "name": "Argosy Communications", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": 1994, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "The roots of the company begin with the start of Popular Publications in 1930. \r\nPopular purchased the Frank A. Munsey Company in 1942, gaining the rights to Argosy magazine. \r\nPopular was sold to Brookside Publications in 1972. \r\nBrookside sold Popular to Filipacchi Publications, part of Hachette, in 1978. \r\nHachette sold the rights to Popular and its characters to Blazing Publications in 1981. \r\nBlazing Publications renamed the company Argosy Communications, Inc. in 1988. \r\nArgosy Communications sold its rights to everything but its pulp heroes to Steeger Properties, LLC in 2014.", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 4, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-10-01T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-09-02T21:01:05Z" }, { "id": 10948, "name": "Argus Publishers Corp", "year_began": 1962, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-03-20T16:09:14Z", "modified": "2021-05-20T22:32:00Z" }, { "id": 10974, "name": "ARH Comix", "year_began": 2015, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20211206190809/https://arhcomix.com/", "notes": "", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 15, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-04-04T05:27:57Z", "modified": "2026-05-28T22:09:33Z" }, { "id": 14020, "name": "Arhiv", "year_began": 2007, "year_ended": 2007, "country": "rs", "url": "", "notes": "Situated in Pančevo, Serbia.", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-04-29T17:51:33Z", "modified": "2019-04-29T17:51:33Z" }, { "id": 15954, "name": "Århus Tegneserieloge", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "dk", "url": "https://tegneserielogen.dk/", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-03-25T18:44:05Z", "modified": "2021-03-25T18:44:05Z" }, { "id": 3988, "name": "Aria", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": 1996, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 14, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-08-12T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2023-06-22T16:41:59Z" }, { "id": 19134, "name": "Aria Bell", "year_began": 2018, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://ko-fi.com/ariabell/shop", "notes": "Self-publishing for Colorado-based cartoonist Aria Bell.\r\n\r\nNOTE: This publishing company has no name, so per our rules, we are using the cartoonist's name for \"Publisher Name\"", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-08-08T05:36:49Z", "modified": "2025-08-09T16:25:59Z" }, { "id": 6871, "name": "Ariel Books", "year_began": 1979, "year_ended": 1979, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "New York City, NY publisher.", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-07-22T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-01-23T13:48:57Z" }, { "id": 7576, "name": "Ariel Books; 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