Its first successful product was Kuasha (Kuasha-1, first edition published in June 1964), a short-lived modern-Robin Hood style adventure series.
These books described the adventures of its eponymous hero Masud Rana, an international spy of Bangladeshi origin, closely resembling James Bond in his expertise with weapons and women.
Although the publisher of the series was Qazi Anwar Hussain, Hossain liberally borrowed plot lines from popular Western spy thrillers.
Nonetheless, the series was a boon for young people in post-war Bangladesh, who had few entertainment alternatives in an era pre-dating video games, cable TV and the internet.
The books caused concern among some middle-class parents because of their occasional racy content, and reading Masud Rana was an activity often frowned upon.
While Sheba played a vital role in encouraging reading among young people, making such translations available is arguably its most important contributions.
[1] The Tin Goyenda series was written by Rakib Hasan, and described the adventures of Kishore Pasha, a Bangladeshi-American teen detective, and his two friends Musa Aman and Robin Milford.
The cerebral Kishore lives with his aunt and uncle Rashed in California, and is much given to pinching his lower lip while pondering some knotty problem from his latest case.
Rakib Hasan also adopted plot lines from The Famous Five as well as The Hardy Boys and similar teen-detective titles, but his readers, unaware of such issues, consumed the Tin Goyenda books avidly.
A juvenile magazine in the name of Kishore Potrika is also published from Sheba Prokashoni.Sheba titles are characterized by their distinctive red-and-yellow butterfly logo.
After the independence of Bangladesh in 1984 from Seba Prakashani, this magazine was edited by Kazi Anwar Hossain and it started to be published regularly.