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Anglo-American Publishing was a Canadian
comic book A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
publisher during the
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
era. While they published a number of Canadian creations, they also printed Canadian reworkings of scripts bought from American publisher Fawcett Comics.


History

American comic books were barred from crossing the border into Canada when the War Exchange Conservation Act passed in December 1940. In order to fill in the void and supply Canadian kids' appetite for comic books, Anglo American and
Maple Leaf Publishing Maple Leaf Publishing was a World War II-era Canada, Canadian comic book publisher active during the Golden Age of Comic Books. They were one of four publishers—along with Anglo-American Publishing, Hillborough Studios, and Bell Features—whi ...
started publishing comics in March 1941. Anglo-American's first title that March was '' Robin Hood and Company'', a tabloid-sized publication which reprinted comic strips, chief amongst them ''Robin Hood and Company'' by '' Toronto Telegrams
Ted McCall Edwin Reid McCall (born 1901 in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, Chatham, Ontario, died 1975) was a Canadian journalist, and a comic strip and comic book Comic book writer, writer. He was best known for creating the first comic strip based on the Royal Cana ...
, which had run in Canadian newspapers since 1935. Amongst Anglo-American's characters were Freelance, Commander Steel, Purple Rider, Red Rover, Kip Keene, Terry Kane and Dr Destine.


See also

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Canadian comics Canadian comics refers to comics and cartooning by citizens of Canada or Permanent residency in Canada, permanent residents of Canada regardless of residence. Canada has Official bilingualism in Canada, two official languages, and distinct comic ...
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Golden Age of Comic Books The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from 1938 to 1956. During this time, modern comic books were first published and rapidly increased in popularity. The superhero archetype was created and many well-known char ...
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Hillborough Studios Hillborough Studios was a short-lived Canadian comic book publisher, founded in 1941, most notable for publishing Adrian Dingle's Nelvana of the Northern Lights. Overview In August 1941, Hillborough was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Adr ...
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Bell Features Bell Features, also known as Commercial Signs of Canada, was a Canadian comic book publisher during the World War II era. They were the most successful of the publishers of " Canadian Whites", and published comics such as Adrian Dingle's Nelvana ...


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Dundurn Press Dundurn Press is one of the largest Canadian-owned book publishing companies of adult and children's fiction and non-fiction. The company publishes Canadian literature, history, biography, politics and arts. Dundurn has about 2500 books in print, ...
, 2007. * Beaty, Bart. "Comic Books and Graphic Novels". ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'' (editor: New, William H.).
University of Toronto Press The University of Toronto Press is a Canadian university press founded in 1901. Although it was founded in 1901, the press did not actually publish any books until 1911. The press originally printed only examination books and the university calen ...
, 2002. Pages 221–223. Comic book publishing companies of Canada Golden Age of Comic Books Publishing companies established in 1941 {{comics-company-stub