Short answers, pulled from the story.
Stackpole Books was founded in 1930 by Edward J. Stackpole Jr. in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The company traces its origins even further back to the Evening Telegraph newspaper, which was founded in Harrisburg in the early 19th century and came under Stackpole family control in 1901.
Stackpole Books is headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The company moved to that location in 1993 from its original base in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Stackpole Books publishes nonfiction in the areas of military history, military reference, outdoors, crafts, regional interest, and travel. The house is especially noted for its fly fishing titles and has a long list of wilderness survival and Civil War history books.
Superior Reprints were a series of twenty-one small paperbacks produced by Military Services Publishing Company in 1944 and 1945, priced at twenty-five cents each and numbered M637 through M657. They were sold to soldiers rather than given away free, and the series leaned toward mystery and detective fiction by authors including Graham Greene, Liam O'Flaherty, and Ring Lardner.
Rowman and Littlefield acquired Stackpole Books in 2015. The following year, Stackpole Magazines were sold separately to Ampry Publishing.
Stackpole Sons published fiction by Damon Runyon and John Fante, along with autobiographies by Benny Goodman and Huey Long, starting in 1936.