The ''Detroit Mirror'' was a daily morning tabloid newspaper published in

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.Bert Whitman Papers at Syracuse University Library
/ref> It ceased publication in August 1932 without warning, only giving a week of severance pay to its employees. At that time it had a circulation of 170,000. But it had lost two million dollars in sixteen months despite having made huge gains in both circulation and advertising revenue during the spring of 1932. It was owned by publishers

Robert R. McCormick Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick (July 30, 1880 – April 1, 1955) was an American lawyer, businessman and Anti-war movement, anti-war activist. A member of the McCormick family of Chicago, McCormick became a lawyer, Republican Party (Unite ...

and

Joseph Medill Patterson Joseph Medill Patterson (January 6, 1879 – May 26, 1946) was an American journalist, publisher and founder of the '' Daily News'' in New York. At the time of his death the ''Daily News'' maintained a Sunday circulation of 4.5 million copi ...

, also owners of the ''

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'' and ''

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''. They had taken it over in 1931 from

Bernarr MacFadden Bernarr Macfadden (born Bernard Adolphus McFadden, August 16, 1868 – October 12, 1955) was an American proponent of physical culture, a combination of bodybuilding with nutritional and health theories. He founded the long-running magazine pub ...

as a partial payment for ''

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'' magazine that was taken over by MacFadden. Max Annenberg was the ''Detroit Mirror's'' local publisher and his son Ivan was circulation manager. Some other notable employees were Bert Whitman, a cartoonist from 1929 to 1932 and

Zeke Zekley Emil Samuel Zekley (February 11, 1915 – April 28, 2005), better known as Zeke Zekley, was an American cartoonist who worked on several comic strips, notably George McManus's ''Bringing Up Father''. Early years Born in Chicago, Zekley grew ...

who began working as an editorial and comic cartoonist there at age 18.

Chester Gould Chester Gould (; November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the '' Dick Tracy'' comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains. ...

's long-running comic strip ''

Dick Tracy ''Dick Tracy'' is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the ''Detroit Mirror'', and it ...

'' made its first-ever appearance in the ''Detroit Mirror'' on Sunday October 4, 1931.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Detroit Mirror, The Newspapers published in Detroit Defunct newspapers published in Michigan Publications disestablished in 1932