(On June 9, 1954, the subcommittee received the following information which corrects Mr. Kichhorn’s statement regarding foreign distribution of comics by the American News Co., Inc.)
The American News Co., Inc.,
Senate Office Building, Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator Hendrickson: On Friday, June 4, I testified before you in the Federal Courthouse here in New York City, At that time, your committee's counsel said that he understood that our company distributed comics in 38 foreign countries. I testified that I did not think this was so, and that distribution of comics of publishers for whom we distributed was made directly to foreign countries by the publisher themselves.
After I returned to the office, ( realized that this was not entirely correct. The publishers do sell copies direct but our company also distributes some copies of comics to dealers in foreign countries,
Attached, you will find a list in duplicate, of foreign countries to which we distribute magazines and on this list we have checked off those countries to which we distribute comic magazines to dealers, We do not distribute all comic magazines that we handle to all of these countries, but we do distribute some copies in each of the countries checked off on the attached list,
I am sending this so you so that the record will be straight and I regret that I did not give you the entire correct picture when I appeared before your committee.
Very truly yours,
W. A. Eichhorn,
Foreign Countries Drawing Comics
✓ Arabia
✓ Argentine Republic
Austria
Belgian Congo
Belgium
Bermuda
✓ Bolivia
Brazil
British East Africa
✓ British Guiana
✓ British Honduras
✓ British West Indies
✓ Burma
✓ Canal Zone
✓ Ceylon
✓ Chile
China
✓ Colombia
✓ Costa Rica
✓ Cuba
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia
✓ Denmark
✓Dominican Republic
✓ Ecuador
✓ Egypt
Egyptian Sudan
Eire
✓ El Salvador
✓ Ethiopia
Federal Malay State
✓ Fiji Islands
Finland
✓ France
French Indochina
French West Indies
Germany
✓ Greece
✓ Guam
✓Guatemala
✓ Haiti
✓ Hawaii
✓ Honduras
Holland
✓ Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
✓ India
✓ Indonesia
✓ Iran
✓ Iraq
Israel
✓ Italy
✓ Japan
✓ Kenya Colony
✓ Lebanon
✓ Malaya
Malta
Manchuria
Marianas Islands
Mauritius
✓ Mexico
Morocco
✓ Pormosa
✓ Netherlands Antilles
Netherlands Hast Indies
✓Netherlands Guiana
Newfoundland