Horwitz Publishing House
| Founded | 1921 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Israel Horwitz Ruth Horwitz |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Headquarters location | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Key people | Stanley Horwitz, Susan Horwitz |
| Publication types | Novels, Comics, Magazines |
| Nonfiction topics | Sports, Education |
| Fiction genres | crime, war, thrillers, romance, Western |
| Imprints | multiple [see below] |
| Official website | www.horwitz.com.au |
Horwitz Publications is an Australian publisher primarily known for its publication of popular and pulp fiction. Established in 1921 in Sydney, Australia by Israel and Ruth Horwitz, the company was a family-owned and -run business until the early 21st century. The company is most associated with their son Stanley Horwitz, who took over publishing operations in 1956. Stanley was eventually succeeded by his son Peter and daughter Susan, who was the company's director in the years 1987-2016.
Horwitz started out publishing trade journals and sporting magazines (notably the Sporting Weekly newspaper), and moved into popular, pulp fiction, and comic books in the mid-20th century. It was exceedingly successful in genre fiction: crime, war, thrillers, and romance.
Horwitz ventured into paperbacks in the 1940s, under the imprint Transport Publishing Co, with series of 'Sporting Westerns' and 'Scientific Thrillers' and Australia's first science fiction magazine Thrills Incorporated (1950-2).[1]
Between the 1950s to the 1990s, Horwitz published some of the most popular pulp fiction writers, including A.G. Yates aka Carter Brown and Marshall Grover, in numerous successful author and title series. Some of the pseudonymous author names were used by multiple writers under contract to Horwitz, which owned the names.
In the late 1950s, Horwitz published some original Australian comics, notably adaptations of its Carter Brown novels, but also "The Phantom Commando", created by John Dixon but mostly worked on by Maurice Bramley, who drew it until 1956. At its peak, Horwitz reportedly released up to 48 comics and 24 fiction titles each month, with print-runs of up to 250,000 copies. From c. 1950 – c. 1966, Horwitz published a large number of war, Western, and crime comics, predominantly reprints of American comics, sourced mainly from Timely/Atlas/Marvel.
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