After working at Popular Science and McCall's magazines, she joined Dell Publishing as a clerk in 1923, aged 16.
While Dell Publishing initially focused on pulp magazines, Meyer pushed an expansion to paperbacks and comic books.
[2] Meyer then further expanded Dell Publishing into hardcover books with Delacorte Press, and signed authors such as Kurt Vonnegut and James Baldwin.
[1] Throughout her time at Dell Publishing, Meyer worked closely with its founder, George Delacorte.
In her testimony, Meyer went strongly on the offensive against Dr. Fredric Wertham's accusation that comic book violence was corrupting America's youth.