Dell Publishing, an American publisher of
books,
magazines and
comic books, was founded in 1921 by
George T. Delacorte, Jr. with $10,000, two employees and one magazine title,
I Confess, and soon began turning out dozens of pulp magazines; everything from penny-a-word detective stories and articles about the movies, to even romance books (or “smoochies” as they were known in the slang term of the day).