The story
Founded by Rob Spijkstra, Juniorpress started as the Dutch-language branch of the Swedish publishing group Semic Press. Although founded in 1973, the company didn't start publishing comics until 1976, with a selection of war, Western, romance, and horror comics, with titles such as Bajonet, Front, Gruwel, Krimi, Marshall, Oorlog, Romantica, and Western. Many of these were reprints of the Dutch publisher Nooit Gedacht.
In 1978, Juniorpress acquired the Dutch-language license to publish Marvel Comics in the Netherlands and Belgium. In the early 1990s, Juniorpress sometimes sold 5,000 copies per issue of its Marvel reprints.
In 1982–1983, the company canceled most of its original titles and changed direction, focusing almost exclusively on translations of American superhero comics. Around 1984, Juniorpress took over the previously independent company Baldakijn Boeken ("Canopy Books"), using this imprint to market DC translations. Juniorpress apparently lost the license to publish DC material around 1996.
Juniorpress lost the Marvel Comics Dutch rights in 2007 to Z-Press Junior Media. After losing the Marvel Comics license, Juniorpress temporarily canceled its superhero lines. Later the company started again with various licenses, including Lego.
In October 2014, Juniorpress was sold and renamed JP Publishing. Since this company does not publish comics, the few remaining Juniorpress titles petered out by the end of 2015.
From Wikipedia’s article on Juniorpress, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3