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The Bell Syndicate, launched in 1916 by editor-publisher John Neville Wheeler, was an American syndicate that distributed columns, fiction, feature articles and comic strips to newspapers for decades. It was located in New York at 247 West 43rd Street and later at 229 West 43rd Street. It also reprinted comic strips in book form.〔''Ben Webster's Career or Bound to Win'', 1927, in a four-panel horizontal format.〕 In 1913, while working as a sportswriter for the ''New York Herald'', Wheeler formed the Wheeler Syndicate to specialize in distribution of sports features to newspapers in the United States and Canada. That same year his Wheeler Syndicate contracted with pioneering comic strip artist Bud Fisher and cartoonist Fontaine Fox to begin distributing their work.〔(Drawgerpedia: Bud Fisher )〕 Journalist Richard Harding Davis was sent to Belgium as war correspondent and reported on early battlefield actions, as the Wheeler Syndicate became a comprehensive news collection and distribution operation. In 1916, it was purchased by the McClure Syndicate, the oldest and largest news and feature syndicate in America. Immediately upon the sale of the Wheeler Syndicate to the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, Wheeler founded the Bell Syndicate, which soon attracted Fisher, Fox and other cartoonists. Ring Lardner began writing a sports column for Bell in 1919. In 1924, Wheeler became executive editor of ''Liberty'' and served in that capacity while continuing to run Bell Syndicate. In 1930, he became general manager of North American Newspaper Alliance, established in 1922 by 50 major newspapers in the United States and Canada which absorbed Bell, both continuing to operate individually under joint ownership. NANA continued to acquire other syndicates, including the McClure Syndicate. ==Comic strips== Comic strips distributed by the Bell Syndicate: *''Beautiful Babs'' - Chic Young 〔Maurice Horn, ''Women in the Comics'', New York : Chelsea House, 1977. (p. 48, 70) 〕 *''Ben Webster's Career'' - "Edwin Alger" (Jay Jerome Williams)〔 at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. (Archived ) from the original on April 16, 2012.〕 *''Reg'lar Fellers'' - Gene Byrnes *''Sad Sack'' - George Baker〔Hubert H. Crawford, ''Crawford's Encyclopedia of Comic Books''. Jonathan David Publishers, 1978 (p. 408).〕 *''Sergeant Stony Craig and His US Marines'' - Frank H. Rentfrow and Don L. Dickson 〔Maurice Horn, ''The World Encyclopedia of Comics''. New York : Chelsea House, 1976. (p. 638)〕 *''Sherlock Holmes'' - Leo O'Mealia 〔 〕 *''S'Matter, Pop?'' - C. M. Payne *''Straight Arrow'' - John Belfi and Joe Certa 〔 〕 *''Tailspin Tommy'' - Hal Forrest *''True Comics'' - Ed Smalle and Jack Sparling *''You Know Me Al'' - Ring Lardner 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bell Syndicate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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