1942

1942, the first full year of Canadian wartime comics, was a year of transition and expansion. Canada had been in the war for more than two years. 1941 had given us the birth of Canadian comics with comics from that year understandably the hardest to find. By the turn of 1942 a handful of Canadian publishers had established a foothold in a fertile market newly cleared of American comics yet one of those companies, Adrian Dingle’s Hillborough Studio on Granville Street in downtown Toronto, housing Dingle’s new female superhero, Nelvana, was faltering as Dingle’s debts were mounting. However, on the…
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