The following is an excerpt from an article by Diana Mircea from Parade of Pleasure magazine #11, March 1994.
                   
First a little background on Family Enterprises Comics.
                   Family Enterprises was a company started by Jacob King in the early 30s to publish various periodicals found at the lower echelons of the newsstand: magazines featuring lowbrow cartoons, celebrity photos or popular song lyrics. In a 1982 interview, cartoonist Lou Yipple claimed that the real business of the company during this period revolved around the production and distribution of under-the-counter men's magazines. In 1937, King managed to set up a plant in Blakeshire, Connecticut and shifted his emphasis to printing and distribution, though he continued to publish periodicals. The greater part of the business' income came from outside printing jobs, but King discovered that it was more economical to have an in-house creative department cranking out product between these larger orders. The profit margins of Family Enterprise publications were small but more than made up for themselves by keeping the presses rolling. The quality of the majority of their books was notoriously marginal, as well, with the exception of the series of adventure pulp magazines edited by Gerry K Daly. (See author's article in PoP #9- ed.)
                   Family was a later entry in the comics field for a Golden Age publisher, starting in 1943. King reportedly had little interest in moving into comic books but had been approached by a young businessman named Vincent Wolfe, a dapper fellow who had been involved in a number of failed enterprises. Wolfe had a great deal of paper from one of these ventures, a useful commodity during wartime rationing. He also claimed to have a comic book packaging studio under contract. What he didn't have was capital to publish.
                   King wanted the paper, and Wolfe's outlay was low risk, so the publisher entered the comic book business, though not yet as Family Enterprise Comics. That name wouldn't begin to show up until 1947. Until that time, there was no publisher information on the covers, except a small FE, and the company name listed in the indicia was Tyke Tales, Inc. The FE was for Family Enterprises, the printing company. The economic machinations behind the Tykes title seem to be lost to time.
                    Wolfe did not actually have a contract with a company to produce the comics. He did have a brother-in-law, Eddie Tellas, an artist who had produced minor works at various publishers. Tellas quickly put together a shop of competent cartoonists and began to churn out titles like All War Funnies, March of Comics, Jolt, Great Fun, Jolly, Animal Nonsense, All Zoom, Boy Soldiers, Crash Bang Comics and Combat Fury. Superheroes were still flying high, and the Tellas shop created their share, including Ultra-Patriot, Commander Thunder, Ruby Scarab, Amazing Woman, Robo-Man, M for Magic, Miss Frenzy, The Shade, Kid Overman, Puma Jones and American Vigilante. They even teaming up a number of these characters as the Honor Squadron, a second rate knockoff of All-Star's Justice Society of America, though predating Timely's All-Winner Squad. In the funny animal arena, the shop produced such notables as Snuffles Mouse, Donkey Hoetay, Dumont Duck, Overbunny, Mysticmouse, King Kangaroo, Lindy Lion and Jiggety Pig. For a short time in 1944, they even experimented with comic book versions of Family's pulp heroes Zandar the Mystic, Captain Eclipse, Blackbird and Doc Hugo. Overall, Tyke Tales produced rather average fare, readable books that rarely rose above a level of adequacy.
                    In 1947, King and Wolfe had a falling out, though the reasons behind the breakup are unknown. King decided to continue the comics line, now renamed Family Enterprises Comics, and hired an in-house staff, located at an office in Manhattan, separate from the main Connecticut plant. This shop was headed up by Harry Weiss, a relative newcomer to the field at that point, though already a favorite freelancer for a number of companies. Weiss' rein was short but dynamic. Though there were no truly top-notch artists at the company, he managed to inspire some really fine work from the staff. The costumed crime-fighters were mostly gone from the roster by this point. Instead there was an emphasis on genres like Westerns, Crime, Romance, Teen Humor, Jungle, Space Opera and War. Along with a few funny animal holdovers from the Tellas days, King had acquired the licensing rights to stars of the Funnytoons animated cartoon shorts. Reportedly these books, featuring a host of critters like Sammy Lamb, L'il Dufus, Pussums and Schnookums, The Rook, Puck and Pan, Puffy Penguin and Wilbur Walrus and Dumb Duck, were the companies best sellers for years. During the Weiss period, they deserved the notice. The stories by Sam Green and Weiss himself compare favorably to contemporary work by Carl Barks and John Stanley. Of Weiss, staff artist Joe Boltonia said, "He knew what you were capable of, and he wasn't going to let you get away with just slopping it out. A pretty easy guy to work with, but the expectation was there."
                   Unfortunately the young editor left after less than a year, following a more lucrative offer.
                    Within a year after Weiss' departure, his replacement, Herbert Schwartzinger, brought the quality of the books down below the mediocre level of the companies mid-40s Tyke Tales output. As an editor, he seemed content to follow whatever were the trends of the day, and with a few exceptions, the art and stories were poor. Most of the best artists left the company by 1949, when the company closed its New York comic shop, switching to almost all freelancers. Green, who stayed with Family, contributed most of his work to their magazine department. Unfortunately, due to the fact that it coincided with the time of Family's strongest distribution, Schwartzinger's reign is often what many comic fans and historians think of when the name Family Enterprises is brought up.
                    But in 1953, another shakeup occurred...