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Esther Immanuel was born Esther Benjamin in Pancras, London, in the third quarter of 1914. She married Binyamin Immanuel in 1941. In 1946 they leased premises at 37a Kensington High Street, where she ran an employment agency and her husband ran an advertising company, C. A. S. Ltd. A year later they jointly set up a small publishing company, C. A. S. Ltd, which, after a successful book of photos of Rita Hayworth, launched a comic, Smasher Comic. In 1947 they launched Top-Notch Comic under the Apex Publicity banner, and in 1948 established Scion, which published a series of comic titles, most of which only lasted one issue. Scion also published paperbacks in the early 1950s. Scion was sold to the Henry Squires conglomerate in 1954, and it was absorbed into Squires' other operations in 1956, ceasing to exist. Esther died as a British national in Nice, France, in 1975, aged 61.

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  • Alan Clark, Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors, The British Library, 1998, pp. 82-83
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