Interpresse, later known as Semic Interpresse, was a Danish comic book publisher that operated from 1954 to 1997. Known for original comics as well as translated American and European titles, it was an innovative and creative publisher with a dominant position in the Danish market especially from the early 1970s — when interest in comics culminated — until the mid-1980s — when competition from home video, computer games, and computer animation changed the marketplace. The company had foreign branches in Belgium and Norway (and for a short time in France); it also acquired a number of Danish competitors in the 1970s and '80s.
Danish creators associated with Interpresse included Peter Madsen, Freddy Milton,[1] and Teddy Kristiansen.
History
The publishing house Stenby Press was founded in 1954 by the young Danish history student Arne Stenby together with the Swedish magazine king T. Armas Morby. The company was renamed Interpresse in 1955. In 1961, publishing and printing moved into new buildings on Krogshoejvej in the Copenhagen suburb of Bagsværd.
In 1973, Morby bought out Stenby and sold fifty percent of the company to the Swedish