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General Category => Comic Related Discussion => Topic started by: 3Face on February 20, 2021, 05:13:56 PM

Title: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: 3Face on February 20, 2021, 05:13:56 PM

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.

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: Yoc on February 21, 2021, 08:15:37 AM

Thanks for letting us know, that is a fun fact.
:)

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: 3Face on February 21, 2021, 06:11:27 PM

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!

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: 3Face on 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/

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: SuperScrounge on 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

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: 3Face on 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

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: NicholasWhite on May 04, 2021, 09:17:10 AM

I did not know about this fact, thanks for telling us, interesting)))

Title: Re: Happy 80th Anniversary of Canada's Comics!
Post by: 3Face on June 05, 2021, 11:36:53 AM

Thanks, Nicholas! There's many more facts in Ivan's various articles on the Comic Book Daily website.