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Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
3Face:
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.
Yoc:
Thanks for letting us know, that is a fun fact.
:)
3Face:
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!
3Face:
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/
SuperScrounge:
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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