Field Enterprises was a private holding company founded on August 31, 1944, by Marshall Field III and others whose main asset was the Chicago Sun. That same year the company acquired the book publishers Simon & Schuster and Pocket Books.
It also operated a syndicate, Field Newspaper Syndicate, whose most popular offering was the comic trip Steve Canyon. Comic strip historian Allan Holtz has written regarding the origins of the syndicate and its relationship to the rest of the company:
- Field... was a syndicate initially created by Marshall Field to sell features from his Chicago Sun newspaper. When Field started the Sun he found that Chicago was pretty much all sewed up with exclusive contracts on the better features. He resolved to purchase his own features and market them. Ironically, the Field Enterprises syndicate ended up being a better moneymaker than the Sun itself. It has been said that the flagship feature, Steve Canyon, was responsible for keeping the Sun afloat for many years.
Other features included the editorial cartoons of Bill Mauldin and the "Ask Ann Landers" advice column.
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