Harry Donenfeld


Harry Donenfeld was an American publisher who is known primarily for being the owner of National Allied Publications, which distributed Detective Comics and Action Comics, the originator publications for the superhero characters Superman and Batman. Donenfeld was also a founder of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Harry Donenfeld was born into a Jewish family in Romania, and at the age of five emigrated to the United States of America with his parents and his brother Irving. A few years later the family was joined by Harrys two elder brothers Charlie and Mike. Little is known of his early life, as is common with many people entering America during the days of mass immigration but the family entered America via Ellis Island and took up residence in New York in the Lower East Side area.

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