One of Whitman's most popular mystery series was Trixie Belden. Whitman also published Whitman Authorized Editions with stories featuring fictionalized versions of popular actresses of the 1940s and, later, novels based upon popular television shows, such as Captain Kangaroo, the Patty Duke Show, and The Beverly Hillbillies. In 1933 the company signed a licensing contract with Walt Disney to produce books based on Disney cartoon characters, such as Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy. For decades it was a subsidiary of Western Publishing Company. Children's book publisher įrom the early 1900s to the mid 1980s, Whitman was a popular children's book publisher. Whitman now primarily produces coin and stamp collecting books and materials. A few years later Hamming-Whitman went bankrupt, and Western took over the company, found success in selling the inventory of low-cost juvenile books, and formed the Whitman Publishing Company.
In about 1915, Western began printing and binding a line of juvenile books for the Hamming-Whitman Publishing Company of Chicago. Whitman Publishing is an American book publishing company which started as a subsidiary of the Western Printing & Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin. American publishing company Whitman Publishingīooks, coin folders, coin albums, games, postage stamp albums
