found: The history of the Marlin Company, c1998:verso t.p. (North Haven, CT) intro. (Illustrated Current News, Inc. [no publs. in OCLC database], the progenitor of the Marlin Company; ICN, for short; three Kenna-family-owned enterprises: ICN, Marlin Firearms and its subsidiary, Marlin Industrial Division [no publs. in OCLC database], which was formed in 1942 and became independent in 1987; the Marlin Company today is the result of a 50-year symbiotic relationship between MID and ICN that culminated in their formal merger in 1992)