Talk:Western Publishing

Paper Dolls
The article doesn't discuss the 100s of paper dolls printed by Whitman Publishing Company, a long-time subsidiary of Western Publishing Company. I don't know how one goes about adding something but as a long-time paper doll collector, I could help on this aspect.

4dogs2cats (talk) 03:23, 10 October 2014 (UTC)4dogs2cats

Relationship with DC Comics
The article doesn't mention the imprint relationship with DC comics during the 1970s. Many regular series comics were sold with the Whitman logo and a "flying Superman" where the  barcode usually went. The comics weren't sold individually but in sets of four in plastic bags which would be hung on pegs in major supermarkets. I am interested in finding out more about how this arrangement worked.

In answer to the above: Warner bought DC in 1969 and Whitman had imprint rights to Warner titles in the 1970s.

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Is this company related at all to the Whitman Publishing Company, a book publisher that was active in the 1960s? This article suggests Western didn't use this name for book publishing until 2003. 23skidoo 22:19, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * re-read the article. Western had used the Whitman name for decades.  Keep in mind that Western was bought out in 1984.  The current Whitman is another company.  emb021 23 June 2006

Red Fairy Tales
We have a very old, undated copy of Red Fairy Tales. Whitman Publishing, Racine, WI It has illustrations by Elsie M. Kroll.

Any ideas about the date or value? 216.87.67.15 19:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Games and playing cards
I believe they were in this industry through about the 1980's... Ranma9617 01:37, 10 June 2007 (UTC) I cannot find the size of these books anywhere?? Any body know the size?? As a 14 year employy of Whitman/Western Publishing Companies I can tell you that there are many ommissions is this article. Western Printing and Lithografy was once the 3rd largeat commercial printer in the U.S. They lost that position mainly because of labor diputes with the many differnent labor unions they dealt with. More important is the birth of Whitman Publishing Company which came about because the Compny had contracted with a Chicago based Company to print childrens colorong books. The customer defaulted on the contract leaving W.P & L. with a large amount of inventory. Whitman Publishing went on from that meager begining to dominate the children's market in activity books(coloring, cutout, paper dolls, puzzles) for many decades. Whitman's early market was the large chain variety stores. In addition to the childrens lines, they produce playing cards sold under the Guild label as well a many stationary items such as wrapping papers both seasonal and everyday. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.210.172 (talk) 21:39, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Western Golf Publishing Company
I came across this firm as the publisher of a golf guide, the 'Diehl-Vardon Golf Guide'. Was WGPC an imprint of Western Publishing ? Yorkshiresoul (talk) 11:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)

Past tense and present tense in opening paragraph
I noticed the opening paragraph uses "was" to describe the subject. But at the end of the paragraph, it says the company "has" offices in ...

My question - if we find information through research that, through inference, we can conclude that a company is closed, are we allowed to change the article to reflect that? Even if the cited source does not say "The company is no longer in operation" etc.?

Thanks, Geraldine Harris (talk) 16:23, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Caption
Uncle Don's Strange Adventures with a mystery cruiser? I haven't read this book, but is there a less double-entendrey way to phrase that? It sounds like someone wrote it deliberately as a joke. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:32, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

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A tell- tale book bugs bunny party pest
Hard back book when was it published 2603:9003:10D:A5F8:AC76:4368:14A8:37B8 (talk) 03:19, 24 October 2023 (UTC)