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Wartime Heroes of Canada
The Golden Age Canadian heroes appeared in comics generally known as Canadian Whites. Far rarer than their U.S. counterparts, there were many titles of which no copies survive to the modern day. The term was apparently first used by Patrick Loubert and Michael Hirsh in their The Great Canadian Comic Books study of Canadian titles of the era, used specifically to refer to the indiginous comics of the 1940s, which usually had colour covers and black and white interiors. Over time though it has come to be used in the wider form to refer to most any title published between the imposing of import restrictions which gave rise to native Canadian titles (in the winter of 1940, the War Exchange Conservation Act was passed to stabilize the Canadian dollar's value by barring non-essential imports from the U.S.A.) and the lifting of said restrictions following the war, including Canadian reprints of U.S. titles published by Bell and Anglo American; later Anglo American moved to full colour, but these titles are still considered "Whites".
Companies of the era which sprung up to take advantage of the Act included Maple Leaf Publishing, Anglo-American Publications, Commercial Signs of Canada and Hillborough Studios (which later merged with Bell Features.)
Maple Leaf Publishing
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Anglo-American Publishing
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A Toronto based firm, Anglo-American not only did their own, original strips, but also licensed the rights to Fawcett characters. Wartime restrictions prevented the comics being imported, so Anglo-American took the scripts and had local artists illustrate them. Amongst the characters who turned up, often with Canadian touches added to their costumes, were Bulletman, Spy-Smasher, Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jnr and Commando Yank.
Commercial Signs of Canada / Hillborough Studios / Bell Features
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Educational Projects of Montreal
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Feature Publishers of Toronto
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Superior Publishers
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Other Golden Age
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