The company was based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, and was the partnership of publisher Jerry Sinkovec (b.
Fans of adventure comic strips, which by the early 1970s had mostly disappeared from American newspapers, they banded together to publish The Menomonee Falls Gazette to keep the genre alive.
[1] In the company's early years, they published a selection of 32-page comic one-shots featuring a single character, such as The Cisco Kid, Jungle Jim, Krazy Kat, Prince Valiant, Rip Kirby, and Flash Gordon.
To raise money, Street Enterprises produced artists' portfolios in 1975 and 1976, but by 1976, the duo were living in their parents' basements.
[2] Despite canceling The Guardian in 1976 and The Gazette in 1978, they were able to keep publishing The Comic Reader until 1984, when the company finally went defunct.