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King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes...

King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers around the world. King Features Syndicate is a unit of Hearst Holdings, Inc., which combines the Hearst Corporation's cable network partnerships, television programming and distribution activities and syndication companies. King Features' affiliate syndicates are North America Syndicate and Cowles Syndicate. The company was founded by William Randolph Hearst and Moses Koenigsberg in 1915. Koenigsberg consolidated all of Hearst's syndication enterprises under one banner and gave it his own name (koenig=king) when he launched King Features Syndicate. Koenigsberg later wrote an autobiographical history of the company, King News (1941). Hearst paid close attention to the comic strips, even in the last years of his life, as is evident in these 1945-46 correspondence excerpts, originally in Editor & Publisher (December 1946), about the creation of Dick's Adventures in Dreamland: After Greene, Sylvan Byck was the head editor of the syndicate's comics features for several decades, from