Street & Smith

Street & Smith, formally Street & Smith Publications, Inc., was a New York City publisher best known for inexpensive paperbacks and magazines, the dime novels and pulp fiction of their day. Francis Scott Street and Francis Shubael Smith began the partnership in 1855 by taking over a failing fiction magazine, and the firm later issued weekly magazines and cheap novels from its building on Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. It bought Astounding Stories from Clayton Magazines in 1933 and kept the title until 1961, and from its pulp line came The Shadow, Doc Savage and The Avenger. The house also published comic books between 1940 and 1949 and sporting yearbooks. Falling pulp sales ended most of the line in 1949, and Condé Nast Publications bought the company in 1959. The Street & Smith name was revived in 2017 for sports annuals.