{{Short description|American publisher (1910–1988)}} {{Infobox person | name = Sol Cohen | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1910|12|16|mf=y}}<ref name="SSDI">Social Security Death Index, SS# 107-07-2292.</ref> | birth_place = New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1988|7|28|1910|12|16|mf=yes}}<ref name="SSDI" /> | death_place = Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. | occupation = Publisher, Editor | education = | spouse = | website = | footnotes = | children = }} '''Sol Cohen''' (December 16, 1910 – July 28, 1988) was an American publisher who worked mostly in the science fiction field.
==Career== Cohen started his long association with Avon Publications in 1947, working as an editor for their comics division from 1947–1956.<ref name="WhosWho" /> During this same period, from 1947–1949, Cohen was the circulation director and business manager of EC Comics.<ref name="WhosWho" /> Also during this period, Cohen became associated with Golden Age comics financier Harry Donenfeld;<ref name="WhosWho">[http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=COHEN%2c+SOL Cohen entry], Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999.</ref> in 1949 the two men helped found the publisher Youthful Magazines.<ref name="WhosWho" />
Cohen edited Avon magazines, including ''Avon Science Fiction & Fantasy Reader'', through most of the 1950s,<ref name="WhosWho" /> eventually became an Avon Books vice-president. When Cohen's stock gains from that job enabled him to retire in the early 1960s, he decided to continue working in publishing, and joined Robert Guinn at ''Galaxy Science Fiction''.
Cohen left ''Galaxy'' in 1965, and bought ''Amazing Stories'' and ''Fantastic'' from Ziff-Davis, forming a new publishing company, '''Ultimate Publishing''', to do so.<ref name="T_263">Ashley, ''Transformations'', p. 263.</ref><ref>Pohl, ''The Way the Future Was'', pp. 202–204.</ref> Cohen's tenure as publisher of ''Amazing Stories'' and ''Fantastic'' was filled with conflicts with his editors, contributors, and the Science Fiction Writers of America.<ref>Ashley, ''Transformations'', pp. 263–267.</ref>
In 1977, Cohen sold his half of the business to his partner, Arthur Bernhard, and moved to Fort Lauderdale. He died in July 1988.<ref name=GTF_348-355>Ashley, ''Gateways'', pp. 348–355.</ref>
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==References== *{{cite book | first=Mike | last=Ashley | title=Transformations: The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 | publisher=Liverpool University Press | location=Liverpool | year=2005 | isbn=0-85323-779-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/transformationsv0000ashl | ref=none }} *{{cite book | first=Mike | last=Ashley | title=Gateways to Forever:The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 | publisher=Liverpool University Press | location=Liverpool | year=2007 | isbn=978-1-84631-003-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/gatewaystoforeve0000ashl | ref=none }} *{{cite book | first=Frederik | last=Pohl | title=The Way the Future Was| publisher=Gollancz| location=London | year=1979 |isbn= 0-575-02672-3 | ref=none}}
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