Managing Editor - Harry M. Steele
Assistant Editors - Dawn Millar, J. M. Leetch
Art Director - Sydney Dyke
Assistant Artists - Wes Chapman, Nick Cantwell
Advertising Manager - Frank R. Steele
- Address
240 Birmingham Street
New Toronto, Ontario
(as listed on the back indicia of Worldwide Adventures #2)
Overview:
One of the last Golden-Age Canadian publishers to publish original material and a Canadian reprint publisher when American comics were not allowed to cross the border.
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Series Name | Years in Print | Issues (Printings) |
Ace Comics {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1948 - 1948 | 1 |
Adventures into the Unknown {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1950 | 4 |
Airboy Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of American (Hillman) series.
|
1950 | 2 |
All Time Sports {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1950 | 1 (0) |
Big Easter Gift Comics {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Big Giant Comics {Comic Books}
Note: 160 pages of remaindered US comics. Contents of an issue from Ebay include: Magic Comics; Life Story; Giggle Comics; Fawcett's Funny Animals and King Comics.
|
1948 | 1 (2) |
Big Holiday Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Five remaindered comics published with a stiff cardboard cover.
|
1950 | 1 |
Big Smash Bargain Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian comic that published remaindered United States comics.
|
1950 - 1951 | 6 |
Bill Boyd Western {Comic Books} | 1950 | 9 |
Blazing West {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 4 |
Blondie Comics {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 1 |
Bob Colt {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 1 |
Bob Steele Western {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian Fawcett edition.
|
1950 | 1 |
Buffalo Bill {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Captain Hobby Comics {Comic Books}
Note: The cover is dated February.
Whilst the indicia is undated, it must be contemporary with the newsstand edition of Science Comics (Export Publications, 1951 edition) #1 (March 1951), which has a promotion for Captain Hobby on its back cover.
Published in Canada, this comic was distributed in both Canada and USA.
|
1951 - 1951 | 1 |
Captain Midnight {Comic Books}
Note: Imprint: Export Publishing Enterprises Limited?
|
1948 | 4 |
Christmas Comics {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Cookie {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian edition of the U.S. American Comics Group title with same name (1946 series).
|
1949 - 1950 | 2 |
Cowboy Love Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett comic: Cowboy Love (Fawcett, 1949 series).
Other issues may exist.
Cover title is Cowboy Love, but indicia has Cowboy Love Comics in at least issues 2 and 3.
|
1949 - ? | 5 |
Dakota Lil {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett one-shot Dakota Lil.
|
1949 | 1 |
Destination Moon {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Don Winslow of the Navy {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian edition of the American Fawcett title of the same name.
|
1948 | 8 |
Fawcett's Funny Animals {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1948 - ? | 2 |
Feature Book {Comic Books}
Note: Reprint of US edition.
|
1949 | 1 |
Fighting Indians of the Wild West {Comic Books} | 1952 - ? | 1 |
Funny Films {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of ACG series.
|
1950 | 2 |
Giggle Comics {Comic Books} | 1953 - ? | 1 |
Girls in Love {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1951 | 1 |
Gunsmoke {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Youthful "Gunsmoke" series.
|
1949 - 1950 | 8 |
Hockey Comics {Comic Books} | 1949 | 1 |
Holiday Comics {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Hopalong Cassidy {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett comic: Hopalong Cassidy (Fawcett, 1946 series).
Other issues likely exist.
Other issues were reprinted in Canada by Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited as Hopalong Cassidy (Anglo-American Publishing Company Limited, 1949 series). Some of the issues listed there may belong to this publisher and vice versa.
|
1949 - 1950 | 20 |
I Love You {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Ibis the Invincible {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett series Ibis.
|
1948 | 1 |
Indian Fighter {Comic Books} | 1949 | 2 |
Jackie Robinson {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Jo-Jo {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fox series.
|
1948 | 1 |
Joe College {Comic Books} | 1950 - 1950 | 1 |
The Kilroys {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 2 |
Law Against Crime {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 1 |
Life Story {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 10 |
Love Diary {Comic Books}
Note: Reprints, in part, Love Diary (Our Publishing, 1949 series) #3.
|
1949 | 1 |
Lovelorn {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Montana {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Mr. Anthony's Love Clinic {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Operation: Peril {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of ACG series: Operation: Peril (American Comics Group, 1950 series).
Other issues may exist.
|
1950 | 1 |
Ozzie and Babs {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1950 - ? | 2 |
Pioneer Marshal {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Redskin {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Youthful series.
|
1950 | 2 |
Rod Cameron Western {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett series.
|
1950 - 1950 | 1 |
Romance-Adventure Thrills Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Contains rebound USA comics with at least one story from ACG's "Adventures Into the Unknown" #12; an issue of Fawcett's "Sweethearts"; ACG's "Romantic Adventures" #10; an unidentified funny animal comic and a late issue of "Ace Comics" featuring the Phantom. Contents may vary.
|
1951 | 1 |
Romantic Adventures {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of ACG series.
|
1950 | 3 |
Romantic Confessions {Comic Books}
Note: Reprint of Romantic Confessions (Hillman, 1949 series).
|
1950 - 1950 | 2 |
Romantic Secrets {Comic Books}
Note: Other issues may exist. Canadian reprint of Fawcett series. Issue 7 seen on eBay in June 2008 (cover matches issue 7 of US series).
|
1950 | 2 |
Romantic Story {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 1 |
Science Comics {Comic Books}
Note: On sale date on one known copy seems to be December 30, 1950.
Issue #1 exists in two versions:
The newsstand version, priced at 10 cents, cover dated March was distributed in both Canada and USA and is contemporary with Captain Hobby Comics (Export Publishing, 1951 edition) #1 (February 1951).
It carries an advert for Captain Hobby on its back cover and its indicia appears on inside front cover.
The Canada only variant is unpriced, no month on cover and has its indicia on the back cover.
Its is uncertain at this time, which copy appeared first.
|
1951 | 2 (3) |
Search for Love {Comic Books} | 1949 | 1 |
Six-Gun Heroes {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett series.
|
1950 | 6 |
Smiley Burnette {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Spy and Counterspy {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 2 |
Spy-Hunters {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
Star Studded Comics {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 2 |
Super Western Comics {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Youthful comic.
|
1950 | 1 |
Sweethearts {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 4 |
Tex Ritter Western {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of Fawcett series: Tex Ritter Western (Fawcett, 1950 series).
Other issues may exist.
|
1951 | 1 |
Thrilling Danger Comics {Comic Books} | 1951 | 1 |
Top Adventure [Top Action Western] {Comic Books}
Note: Listed as Top Adventure in the indicia, but Top Action Western on the cover.
|
1950 | 1 |
True Stories of Romance {Comic Books} | 1950 - ? | 1 |
True Sweetheart Secrets {Comic Books}
Note: Canadian reprint of US (Fawcett) series. Other issues may exist.
|
1950 | 2 |
Western Adventures {Comic Books} | 1950 | 1 |
Western Fighters {Comic Books} | 1949 | 3 |
World-Wide Adventure {Comic Books}
Note: #2 is Canadian reprint of Spy Hunters (American Comic Group series) #7. No issue number or date in indicia. Cover logo is American Comic Group, indicia states "published in Canada by Export Publishing Enterprises Limited".
|
1950 | 1 |
Wow Comics {Comic Books}
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
|
1949 - ? | 2 |
Young Eagle {Comic Books} | 1949 - ? | 1 |
Youthful Love {Comic Books}
Note: Reprint of the one-shot Youthful 1950 Series comic.
|
1950 | 1 (0) |
Youthful Love Romances {Comic Books} | 1950 | 2 |
Zoot Comics {Comic Books} | 1948 | 1 |