LA Bantam Authors Part I - Eleanor Packer

Eleanor Lewis Packer was an early editor at Whitman Publishing Company which, until 1962, had the exclusive rights to reproduce the Walt Disney characters for juveniles, colouring books and comic books. One web site has her instrumental in the early success of WD comic books. Packer was also an author of Big Little Books for Whitman which was owned by Western Publishing and Lithographing Company of Racine, Wisconsin. Western also owned Bantam Publications, Inc. of Los Angeles (LA Bantam) and here we'll look at her LA Bantam books.

Packer's name is on three LA Bantams but she was also responsible for four others.

5   How to Make Friends Easily     S. Currie
11 How to Win and Hold a Husband     Lucille Martin
12 The World's Great Love Affairs     Eleanor Packer
13 Children's Favorite Stories     Ellen Lewis
16 Grimms' Fairy Tales      Emily Wayne, Ellen Lewis
17 Private Lives of Movie Stars     Eleanor Packer
24 Humorous Anecdotes and Funny Stories     Eleanor Packer

Lucille Martin, Emily Wayne and Ellen Lewis are pseudonyms for Packer and the Currie book has new material by Packer. The source for this information is the Library of Congress Catalog of Copyright Entries. Books 5,11 and 12 are copyright July 1, 1940, books 13 and 17 are August 8, 1940, book 16 is September 26, 1940 and book 24 is August 11, 1941. Below are the covers for two of her books.

Bantam Publications 12

Bantam Publications 24