Anglo-American Publishing

Anglo-American Publishing

Founded	March 1941
Defunct	1951 (1951)
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Publication types	Comic books

Anglo-American Publishing was a Canadian comic book publisher during the World War II era. While they published a number of Canadian creations, they also printed Canadian reworkings of scripts bought from American publisher Fawcett Comics.

As of 2017, Anglo-American characters have begun appearing in Chapterhouse Comics publications, later acquired by Lev Gleason Publications.

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 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 Telegram's Ted McCall, which had run in Canadian newspapers since 1935.

Characters

Amongst Anglo-American's characters were:

• Circus Capers
• Clip Thomson & Tub
• Commander Steel
• The Crusaders: Bob Crawford, Paul Leighton and Lois Leighton
• Doctor Destine and Rugged
• Don Shield and His Revrso-Ray
• Freelance, Big John Collins, and Natasha
• Martin Blake The Animal King
• Men of the Mounted
• Michael Lee British Secret Service
• Pat The Air Cadet
• Purple Rider and Purple Kid
• Red Rover and Knuckles
• Robin Hood and his band
• Sooper Dooper
• Terry Kane

See also

• Canadian comics
• Golden Age of Comic Books
• Hillborough Studios
• Bell Features

References

Works cited

• Bell, John. Invaders from the North. Dundurn Press, 2007. ISBN 978-1-55002-659-7
• Beaty, Bart. "Comic Books and Graphic Novels". Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada (editor: New, William H.). University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pages 221–223. ISBN 978-0-8020-0761-2