Publisher List
Read-only publisher endpoints for the public v2 API surface.
GET /api/v2/publishers/?page=207
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Box 283, Rancocas, NJ 08073. Publisher: John Marshall.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-12-03T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2024-02-20T12:08:22Z" }, { "id": 7449, "name": "Marsu Productions", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": 2013, "country": "mc", "url": "http://www.marsupilami.com/", "notes": "Address:\r\n9, Avenue des Castelans \r\nMC 98000 \r\nMonaco \r\[email protected]", "series_count": 38, "issue_count": 193, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2011-07-16T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-03-12T17:18:54Z" }, { "id": 16046, "name": "Marsupial", "year_began": 2014, "year_ended": null, "country": "br", "url": "http://www.marsupialeditora.com.br", "notes": "", "series_count": 43, "issue_count": 48, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-05-19T18:10:38Z", "modified": "2024-01-07T11:50:59Z" }, { "id": 19316, "name": "Marsyas Országos Sci-fi Egyesület", "year_began": 1995, "year_ended": 2000, "country": "hu", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-12-16T16:37:01Z", "modified": "2025-12-18T07:35:35Z" }, { "id": 14599, "name": "Mart Publications", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": null, "country": "tr", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-06-08T21:10:10Z", "modified": "2019-06-08T22:07:08Z" }, { "id": 13717, "name": "Marte Publications", "year_began": 1952, "year_ended": 1953, "country": "ph", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 25, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-03-02T16:37:49Z", "modified": "2019-03-02T21:19:22Z" }, { "id": 19339, "name": "Mårten Melin och Jonas Anderson", "year_began": 2012, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Swedish writer Mårten Melin and illustrator Jonas Anderson released a self-published comic with Vera, a character from their series of children's books.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2026-01-04T23:19:03Z", "modified": "2026-01-08T05:12:31Z" }, { "id": 5669, "name": "Mårten Persson", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare; Järfälla", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-17T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:36Z" }, { "id": 16319, "name": "Martha Keavney", "year_began": 1998, "year_ended": 2002, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Self-publisher.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 8, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-10-28T22:20:30Z", "modified": "2021-10-29T00:48:39Z" }, { "id": 14927, "name": "Martha Schwartz", "year_began": 2014, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://www.schwmartzgraphics.com/", "notes": "Self publishing for Florida-based cartoonist Martha Schwartz.\r\n\r\nNone of these comics have a publishing company name on them, so we are using the name of the person doing the publishing as the name of the publishing company, per GCD policy.", "series_count": 7, "issue_count": 13, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-12-10T07:53:22Z", "modified": "2025-02-07T17:36:02Z" }, { "id": 14954, "name": "Martian Lit", "year_began": 2014, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://martianlit.com", "notes": "", "series_count": 12, "issue_count": 57, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [ "Mars", "history", "science fiction", "Vietnam", "Hell" ], "created": "2019-12-23T07:36:41Z", "modified": "2024-01-06T23:39:37Z" }, { "id": 9927, "name": "Martijn Pronk", "year_began": 2015, "year_ended": null, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2015-04-15T19:36:26Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:36Z" }, { "id": 9145, "name": "Martin and Reid Ltd.", "year_began": 1946, "year_ended": 1950, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "The dates for this publisher are a total guess. I found a book that they had published in 1946 and I know they produced comics in at least 1948-1949. Some of the first work by Mick Anglo who later retooled Captain Marvel into Marvelman was published by Martin and Reid.", "series_count": 17, "issue_count": 52, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-04-02T01:15:46Z", "modified": "2021-07-11T23:37:25Z" }, { "id": 19157, "name": "Martin Beesom", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "https://acecomics.co.uk/illuminations/", "notes": "Biff Averre, formerly known as Martin Beesom, is the founder of Ace Comics and self-published under his name.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-08-27T11:16:41Z", "modified": "2025-08-28T08:06:29Z" }, { "id": 13479, "name": "Martin de Halleux", "year_began": 2018, "year_ended": null, "country": "fr", "url": "https://martindehalleux.com/", "notes": "", "series_count": 11, "issue_count": 10, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-11-28T02:39:51Z", "modified": "2023-05-03T02:11:07Z" }, { "id": 15529, "name": "Martín Editor", "year_began": 1968, "year_ended": null, "country": "es", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-08-31T02:58:06Z", "modified": "2020-08-31T10:41:42Z" }, { "id": 5119, "name": "Martin Ernstsen (eget forlag)", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 16, "issue_count": 26, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-05-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2019-10-31T08:49:37Z" }, { "id": 5671, "name": "Martin Fredriksson; Måns Mernsten", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare; Fredrikson (Bjärred (nr 1-4), Malmö (5, 8), Lund (6-7)) och Mernsten (Bjärred)", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 9, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-17T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 5522, "name": "Martin Johansson", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare, Jönköping", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-08T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 3284, "name": "Martin L. Greim", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzine Publisher", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 18, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-11-11T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-05-14T06:06:01Z" }, { "id": 4471, "name": "Martin Lemm", "year_began": 1990, "year_ended": 1990, "country": "ca", "url": "", "notes": "Based in Montreal, Quebec.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-02-17T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 6902, "name": "Martin Lövgren", "year_began": 2010, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-08-18T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 7772, "name": "Martin M. Lorvik (eget forlag)", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-02-09T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 13484, "name": "Martin Rørtveit Jensen (eget forlag)", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-12-04T19:19:57Z", "modified": "2018-12-04T21:25:53Z" }, { "id": 3820, "name": "Martin Samuelsson", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzinutgivare, Strömstad", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-06-25T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 15265, "name": "Martin Schmit", "year_began": 2009, "year_ended": null, "country": "at", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-05-05T00:43:24Z", "modified": "2020-05-05T00:57:13Z" }, { "id": 5582, "name": "Martin Turesson", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare; Åsenhöga", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-10T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 13384, "name": "Martinet", "year_began": 1796, "year_ended": 1905, "country": "fr", "url": "", "notes": "Maison Martinet dirigée par Aaron Martinet, fils du graveur François-Nicolas Martinet, de 1796 à 1824. - Aaron Martinet cède sa maison d'édition à son gendre Herménégilde-Honorat Hautecoeur, qui la cède lui-même à ses fils Eugène et Alfred en 1843. Ces derniers s'associent sous le nom \"Hautecoeur frères\" jusqu'en 1867, date à laquelle chacun prend la responsabilité de sa maison : Alfred dirige la maison d'édition rue de Rivoli, sous le nom \"Ancienne maison Martinet\" et Eugène celle du 12 boulevard des Capucines à Paris, qui garde le nom \"Maison Martinet\". A la mort de leur père Eugène (1822-1870), Albert et son frère Edouard (1847-1904) reprennent la maison d'édition familiale. Puis, Albert la gère seul de 1878 à 1905.", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-09-22T14:34:38Z", "modified": "2018-09-22T15:10:04Z" }, { "id": 12276, "name": "Martinez & Brodhecker", "year_began": 2013, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-08-29T12:05:22Z", "modified": "2017-08-29T12:25:04Z" }, { "id": 6483, "name": "Martini Comics", "year_began": 1992, "year_ended": 1992, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-05-23T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 9151, "name": "Märtins", "year_began": 1950, "year_ended": 1950, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 19, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-04-06T13:51:26Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:37Z" }, { "id": 12720, "name": "Martins Forlag", "year_began": 1983, "year_ended": null, "country": "dk", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 8, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-11-08T13:36:00Z", "modified": "2023-11-30T20:55:08Z" }, { "id": 16221, "name": "Marts", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "https://marts-design.de/", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-08-08T16:53:57Z", "modified": "2021-08-09T19:45:40Z" }, { "id": 6279, "name": "Martyr Press", "year_began": 1992, "year_ended": 1994, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Peabody, MA publisher.", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-05-10T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2025-12-23T18:15:16Z" }, { "id": 78, "name": "Marvel", "year_began": 1939, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://marvel.com", "notes": "Marvel was started in 1939 by Martin Goodman under a number of corporation and imprint names that have collectively become known as Timely, and by 1951 had generally become known as Atlas. The \"Marvel era\" began in 1961, the year that the company launched The Fantastic Four and other superhero titles created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and many others. The Marvel brand, which had been used over the years, was solidified as the company's primary brand.\r\n\r\nMarvel counts among its characters such well-known superheroes as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Black Widow, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider, Blade, Daredevil, the Punisher and Deadpool. Superhero teams exist such as the Avengers, the X-Men, the Fantastic Four and the Guardians of the Galaxy as well as supervillains including Doctor Doom, Magneto, Thanos, Loki, Green Goblin, Kingpin, Red Skull, Ultron, the Mandarin, MODOK, Doctor Octopus, Kang, Dormammu, Annihilus and Galactus. Most of Marvel's fictional characters operate in a single reality known as the Marvel Universe, with most locations mirroring real-life places; many major characters are based in New York City. Additionally, Marvel has published several licensed properties from other companies. This includes Star Wars comics twice from 1977 to 1986 and again since 2015.\r\n\r\nDistribution variants:\r\n\r\nWhitman: For issues cover dated February 1977 to around May 1979, Marvel produced non-newsstand editions that were sold mainly in packages. Some, but not all of these, were sold by Western and, because of the branding on the similar DC and Gold Key comics, are generally known as Whitman variants. For the most part they have a square diamond price and either a barcode or a white space where the barcode should be. Some issues from this time have the narrower diamond but it is not currently known if this means they were distributed differently or if it was simply because of the design of the original cover. There is definitely uncertainty between the end of the Whitman comics and the beginning of the Direct comics.\r\n\r\nSpeculation has it that in June 1977, Marvel Comics wanted to test the market to see if comic buyers would accept a five cent price increase. Marvel released a 35 cent variant for every 30 cent comic they produced from June to October 1977. This was a total of 184 different comics. These 35 cent variants were printed in much smaller numbers than the normal 30 cent counterpart and were believed to have been shipped to only six distribution locations to be sold in those specific areas. (Mark Gordon 2010-02-16, revised by Ramon Schenk 2013-02-27).\r\n\r\nDirect: Starting with issues cover dated around April 1979, Marvel started producing non-newsstand editions to be sold in the direct market. For the most part they have a narrower diamond price and the barcode has a line through it (until February 1980 when they started putting a Spider-Man head and eventually other artwork in the UPC box area).\r\n\r\nDirect Edition: In July 1993, Marvel started putting a barcode on the issues sold to the Direct market. They included the words \"Direct Edition\" in the barcode box.", "series_count": 13437, "issue_count": 61744, "brand_count": 36, "indicia_publisher_count": 124, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-11-02T15:45:07Z" }, { "id": 16879, "name": "Marvel Africa", "year_began": 2000, "year_ended": 2000, "country": "za", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-05-22T07:28:07Z", "modified": "2022-05-23T04:59:42Z" }, { "id": 15684, "name": "Marvel Cizgi-Roman Yayinlari", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "tr", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 45, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-11-15T09:46:31Z", "modified": "2022-04-17T03:57:22Z" }, { "id": 778, "name": "Marvel Italia", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": null, "country": "it", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 59, "issue_count": 1628, "brand_count": 5, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-07-26T10:34:25Z" }, { "id": 3174, "name": "Marvel UK", "year_began": 1972, "year_ended": 1995, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "Marvel UK began publishing in 1972 under the corporate name of Magazine Management London Ltd. Its assets were sold to Italian publisher Panini in 1994 or 1995 along with a license for Panini to continue to reprint Marvel material in the UK market.", "series_count": 362, "issue_count": 6155, "brand_count": 3, "indicia_publisher_count": 6, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-09-18T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-09-24T21:25:49Z" }, { "id": 17811, "name": "Marvel; American Entertainment", "year_began": 1996, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-09-22T13:57:37Z", "modified": "2025-01-31T19:58:44Z" }, { "id": 909, "name": "Marvel; Crusade", "year_began": 1997, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2020-03-10T19:03:25Z" }, { "id": 370, "name": "Marvel; DC", "year_began": 1975, "year_ended": 1996, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 4, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-06-28T16:30:37Z" }, { "id": 3409, "name": "Marvel; Gareb Shamus Enterprises [Wizard Entertainment]", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Joint-Venture publishing of Marvel Comics and Gareb Shamus Enterprises [Wizard Entertainment], usually promotional comics.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-01-13T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:03:38Z" }, { "id": 1133, "name": "Marvel; Wizard", "year_began": 1995, "year_ended": 2005, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 56, "issue_count": 57, "brand_count": 4, "indicia_publisher_count": 7, "keywords": [], "created": "2002-03-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2025-09-03T15:49:05Z" }, { "id": 16163, "name": "Marvin Rodriguez", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "br", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-07-11T17:21:51Z", "modified": "2021-07-12T06:00:44Z" }, { "id": 7966, "name": "Marx", "year_began": 1973, "year_ended": 1978, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "The Lone Ranger comics were included as part of Marx action figure toy sets, as seen on eBay.\r\nThe toy is from Louis Marx & Co. Ltd. Great Britain, and not from the U.S. toy company Louis Marx & Company. The British conglomerate Dunbee-Combex-Marx bought the former Marx UK subsidiary in 1967.", "series_count": 13, "issue_count": 13, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-06-11T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-06-25T16:16:29Z" }, { "id": 8126, "name": "Marx; Philmar; P.M. Productions; Amex; Bairns", "year_began": 1942, "year_ended": 1949, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "This publisher operated under a variety of names, including \"Marx\", \"PM\", \"P.M.\", \"Philmar\", \"Phil Mar\", \"Amex\" and \"Bairns\". They all belong together, being published by Philipp Marx.\r\n\r\nFor details, see David Ashford's article in Book and Magazine Collector #322 (July 2010), pp.82-91.", "series_count": 98, "issue_count": 149, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-07-30T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-07-17T17:45:29Z" } ] }