Anglo-American Publishing

Anglo-American Publishing

Status	Defunct
Founded	March 1941
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 are perhaps best known for printing Canadian reworkings of scripts bought from American publisher Fawcett Comics.

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.^[1]

Anglo-American's first title that March was Robin Hood and Company, a tabloid-sized publication which reprinted comic strips,^[1] chief amongst them Robin Hood and Company by Toronto Telegram's^[2] Ted McCall, which had run in Canadian newspapers since 1935.^[3]

Amongst Anglo-American's characters were Freelance, Commander Steel, Purple Rider, Red Rover, Kip Keene, Terry Kane and Dr Destine.

See also

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

References

1. Bell. Invaders, page 44
2. Beaty, page 222
3. Bell. Invaders, page 34

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