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- 1 2 3 "United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser: Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities, With Elser Remaining as Vice-President — Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations," Editor & Publisher (March 15, 1930). Archived at "News of Yore 1930: Another Syndicate Gobbled," Stripper's Guide (May 4, 2010).
- ↑ Hudson, Frederic, Alfred McClung Lee, and Frank Luther Mott. American Journalism 1690-1940, Volume 4 (Psychology Press, 2000), p. 591.
- ↑ "Feature Services Merged: Bell Syndicate Takes Over Metropolitan Newspaper Service," Editor & Publisher (April 3, 1920).
- ↑ Booker, M. Keith. "United Feature Syndicate," in Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas (ABC-CLIO, 2014), p. 399.
- ↑ Holtz, Allan. "Robert L. Dickey and his Dogs," Stripper's Guide (November 3, 2005).
- ↑ Metropolitan Newspaper Service, & Conselman, W. (1927). "Good Time Guy, a new sunrise in the comic world" by William M. Conselman, author of Ella Cinders , writing under the nom de plume of Frank Smiley with drawings by Mel Cummin. New York: Metropolitan Newspaper Service.
- ↑ Markstein, Don. "Tarzan of the Apes". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on November 23, 2014. Retrieved October 7, 2012.