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Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
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March 1941 with the first issue of Canada's first original comic - Better Comics #1 from Maple Leaf Publications in Vancouver. Yippee! There may hopefully be a facsimile reprint in the works.
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February 21, 2021, 08:15:37 AM »
Thanks for letting us know, that is a fun fact.
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Other fun facts, our Canadian
Nelvana of the Northern Lights
hit the stands some months before some chic named Wonder Woman
For those who want to read more about Canadian Whites (though some of them were in colour) historian/writer Ivan Kocmarek has posted many years of articles about them on the Comic Book Daily website at
https://www.comicbookdaily.com/author/ikocmarek/
Entertaining and educational!
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February 22, 2021, 03:05:07 PM »
We wouldn't have even gotten WW on the stands as American comics were banned as non-essential items during the war. But I like Nelvana.
Here's a link to Ivan Kocmarek's CBD article on Better Comics #1.
https://www.comicbookdaily.com/collecting-community/whites-tsunami-weca-splashes/better-comics-vol-1-no-1/
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Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
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February 23, 2021, 07:34:42 PM »
A bunch of pdfs of Bell Features comics are available for online viewing at the Library and Archives Canada
https://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/301/lac-bac/bell_features_collection-ef/BellFeaturesCollection-findingaid-2016-06-21.pdf
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May 03, 2021, 07:29:28 PM »
Thanks SuperScrounge, I meant to post links to LAC but dropped the ball. I've been reading the issues for several months. You can view them online, download them or print them out.
Anyway, for those interested in Canadian Whites and other Canadian comics a special 80th Anniversary Issue of Sequential Magazine with many articles is available, digital right now, print copy this coming weekend. Here's the info, follow the links:
https://mailchi.mp/806c462425e0/80th-anniversary-issue-of-sequential-magazine-now-available?e=e897808709
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I did not know about this fact, thanks for telling us, interesting)))
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Thanks, Nicholas! There's many more facts in Ivan's various articles on the Comic Book Daily website.
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