Topic summary
Crosstown Publications
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Penny Publications.
History
Penny Publications was founded in 1973 in Stamford, Connecticut, by the husband-and-wife team of William E. "Bill" Kanter and Penny Kanter. Bill Kanter was the son of Albert Kanter (1897–1973), founder of the Gilberton Company, formerly the publisher of Classics Illustrated. The Kanters combined the remaining Gilberton assets with a struggling crossword publisher to form Penny Press and Crosstown Publications. The parent company was named after Penny. In an homage to Classics Illustrated, one of the company's first titles was Classic Crosswords.