Review | Battling Boy
Presenting new full length material from Paul Pope, Battling Boy reminds and reinforces why he's a great storyteller.
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Get Re-Auroralized!!
Ivan celebrates Nelvana's crowd funding success, then discusses Canadian Whites and Overstreet.
Undervalued Spotlight #172
Triumph Adventure Comics #1, Hillsborough Studios, August 1941 I’ve had my sights on this Spotlight for a long time and with all the excitement being generated by some great news about the principal character there could be no better time to…
Hamilton’s Comic Past
Saturday will be the first comic-themed con held in Hamilton in many a year. I hope we can make it a success and then an annual event that can be expanded to the whole weekend. My small contribution will be moderating a panel on Hamilton’s connection with comics and...
Undervalued Spotlight #171
THUNDER Agents, Tower Comics, November 1965 Should we be considering those Tower Comics from the 1960s? You know the ones Wally Wood was supposed to build up to challenge the heroes of Marvel and DC. I’ll try to put the…
Auction Highlights #79
Auction Highlights #79, Comic Link September Focused Auction The Silver/Bronze portion of the September Comic Link Focused Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday September 24th and Wednesday September 26th. This auction was extremely Marvel heavy. Of…
Stamp of Approval
If a comic book concept with a fairly slender thread connecting it to Canada (Joe Shuster the illustrator behind the creation of the character was born in Canada) can merit this ceremony, why can't a 75th anniversary of the birth of our own genuine and rock solidly Canadian comic books merit at least an equal value. I know we had that issue in 1995 that contained stamps of Johnny Canuck and Nelvana but this is different.
Undervalued Spotlight #170
Strange Tales #115, Marvel Comics, December 1963 This is about as safe a bet as there is. Strange Tales #115 has long been a staple of the Silver Age. All one has to do is look this issue up in…
Bell Reprints and Covers
The first happened during the WECA period itself when, in 1945, Bell Features decided to issue 6 compendiums of stories from earlier issues. These took features already published and brought them together in large (68 pg.) books that sold for 15 cents.
Peter Maresca’s Restoration Process
A brief interview with Peter Maresca at CBR caught my interest about his restoration process in relation to working on Titan's Flash Gordon series.
Undervalued Spotlight #169
Our Undervalued Spotlight today shines for the first time on our favourite God of Thunder the Mighty Thor - Issue #165, dated June 1969, and is a Stan Lee/Jack Kirby collaboration.
Home Ice
Let me then try to point to a few times in the WECA books that specifically locate the action on Canadian soil or at least, in some way, make it clear that the story is taking place in Canada or, finally, directly connect the story to Canada.
Undervalued Spotlight #168
Superboy #68, DC Comics, Oct/Nov 1958 Superman turned 75 back in June and it got me thinking a bit about old Sups and his current situation. Here’s the hero of heroes, the grand daddy of them all and yet we…
First Half 2013 Review
I wish I had something new and exciting to report but the first six months of this year was just a continuation of what we saw in 2012: a weak Bronze Age, a steady Silver Age, and a stellar Modern Age.…
Casting Call
The brief seventies awakening to and appreciation of the Canadian war-time comic industry began with Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert’s November, 1971 publication of the compendium of Bell Features material they called The Great Canadian Comic Books (Peter Martin).
Undervalued Spotlight #167
Punisher Limited Series #1, Marvel Comics (January 1986). A sure fire way to tell if a comic book is hot these days is to head to a comic con and see if you can find the book on dealer’s walls.…
Fan Expo 2013 | Whites Panel Aftermath, with Audio
Our FanExpo panel on the Canadian Whites was held on the final afternoon just a couple of hours before the whole show closed down. We ended up getting just about 50 people in the audience… not bad for a relatively esoteric and arcane subject.
Review | Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant
A fun and fast paced adventure through 19th century Turkey, Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant delivers in print form. Lovable ne’er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an Indiana Jones for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and…
Fan Expo Whites Panel
FanExpo opens today and I have the good fortune of hosting a panel on Canadian war-time (WECA) comics. I urge all readers who are attending FanExpo on Sunday to attend this panel if they have the opportunity because we expect…
Review | Prince Valiant Vol 7: 1949-1950
Another excellent volume in the march of Hal Foster’s creation, Prince Valiant Volume 7: 1949-1950 shines on Princess Aleta. You might think that birth of Prince Valiant’s son Arn at the end of the previous volume would have slowed down…