In brief
Donenfeld was a magazines man who ended up holding the rights to American mythology. The business was pulps and distribution before it was capes.
Harry Donenfeld was born into a Jewish family in Iași, in the Kingdom of Romania, and at the age of five emigrated to the United States with his parents and his brother Irving.
He also put his name on a medical school. Publishing paid; medicine was the civic gift.
Photographs
Hero photograph: Detective Comics, via Wikimedia Commons (Fair use)
