Benjamin W. Sangor
| Benjamin W. Sangor | |
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| Born | Benjamin William Sangor 1889 Russia |
| Died | c. 1953 or 1955 (sources differ) |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Publisher |
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Notable works
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American Comics Group |
Benjamin William Sangor (1889 – c. 1953 or 1955; sources differ) was an American publisher best known for the 1940s to 1950s comic book company American Comics Group (AGC).
Benjamin W. Sangor was born in Russia and emigrated to the United States, where he became an attorney. On October 1, 1925, a Benjamin Sangor married Etta Weidenfeld at the Hotel Martinique in Manhattan, New York City, though it is unclear if this is the same Sangor and if so, whether he had been married previously — since by 1940, his grown daughter Jacquelyn Sanger (as her last name is spelled in The New York Times) of Chicago had married pulp magazine publisher Ned Pines, founder of Standard Comics. At some point, Sangor had a wife named Frances.
An entrepreneur, Sangor established B.W. Sangor & Company by at least October 1925, when the concern issued stock to develop the resort community of Pinewald, New Jersey, on Barnegat Bay. This included the development of an 18-hole golf course and the Spanish Renaissance-style Royal Pine Hotel, built by the Sangor Hotel Corporation. About 8,000 lots were sold between 1928 and 1929. The firm was located at 1457 Broadway in Manhattan by at least September 1926, the year it began developing Pinewald — although "Help Wanted" classified ads that same month give a company address of 187 Joralemon Street in Brooklyn in relation to an event to help "German-speaking men and women interested in improving their money-making possibilities." It was still at 1457 Broadway as of December 1929; one Robert Moohr was its vice president at that time.
In January 1930, B.W. Sangor & Co. was sued in the Appellate Term of the New York Supreme Court over a claim that the company had breached state insurance law because of a clause giving the widow of a purchaser a clear deed. At some point during this Great Depression era, the company went bankrupt, and by June 1930, a Pinewald amphitheater was being planned for construction by George A. Raker & Co., whose company principal had been Sangor's general manager two years earlier.
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