Anglo-American diversifies
Well, here we are, 80 years since the publication of Better Comics No. 1 in March 1941. At that...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Jan 20, 2021 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 19
Well, here we are, 80 years since the publication of Better Comics No. 1 in March 1941. At that...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | May 2, 2018 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 9
News I was at my friend Bob MacMillan’s place last week and he showed me two Colossal Comics with...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Nov 12, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 0
Those last few months of 1946, those last few months of the WECA period, and what happened to each...
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Oct 1, 2014 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2
In the summer of that year Anglo-American put out Freelance Comics No. 1 (July/August) and then just after that Grand Slam Comics No. 1 (Sept./Oct.) and then Three Aces Comics No. 1 (Nov./Dec. 1941). This rounded off that first year for Anglo-American with all original Canadian material and characters such as Freelance, The Crusaders, Pat the Air Cadet, and Don Shield. At this point, however, Anglo-American decided to veer off this Canadian path and contract with Fawcett in the States, not to reprint their superhero stories, but to use their scripts for redraws. Of course, government acts prevented them from reprinting American comics outright (reprints weren’t really legalized until the war was over) in Canada, but not from drawing their own versions of the Fawcett scripted stories.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Nov 27, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 0
One great result of having a forum to make posts about WECA comics is that the readers can make corrections and cleanups of what I’ve written as well as offer new information that can fill in essential blanks, see my post from two weeks ago for example. Here are a couple more “blanks” for you all.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Nov 13, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 2
Many times over the last year or so I’ve wondered about what became of the original locations of all the WECA era Canadian comic book publishing houses. Are the original buildings still standing or have they been razed to make way for modern money making enterprises? I glean the following address information from the indicia of the actual comics.
Read Moreby Ivan Kocmarek | Mar 28, 2013 | Whites Tsunami, WECA Splashes | 11
No, this is not going to be a piece about good girl art in the WECA books, nor about the...
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