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Publisher: Superior
Years in Operation: 1945 - 1956
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Country: Flag Canada Web Site: Brands: 16 Indicia Publishers: 10 Series: 244 Printings: 1121 (1120 Issues) Disclose Notes: A Canadian publisher who mostly reprinted American comics from the same time period. Also published a number of original series that were distributed in the United States. One of the last surviving Canadian Golden-age publishers.

Fiction House: For earlier issues of the series reprinted by Superior, see the publisher Publications Services Limited. Issues from Superior tend to have the same numbers as the comics they are reprinting, issues from PSL tended to have been renumbered to start from issue 1. There is also a single issue reprinted in Canada by The American News Company that is earlier than both the PSL and Superior issues.

EC Comics: Some of the issue numbers on Canadian titles where the numbering was restarted on the American series don't match.
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Series Name Years in Print Issues (Printings)
Adventures Into Fear {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Skeleton data added from Dan Theaker's "An Introduction to Canadian Comic Books" (1986). Possibly a reprint of the Marvel Comic of the same name?
1951 - 1
Adventures into Terror {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comics: Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1950 series) and Adventures into Terror (Marvel, 1951 series). Other issues may remain to be documented.
1950 - 1951 5
Aggie Mack {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issue 1 has an indicia publisher of Four Star Comics and was apparently prepared by that U.S, publisher but was published and printed in Canada.
1948 - 1949 8
Al Capp's Dogpatch Comics {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 2
Al Capp's Shmoo Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition of the Toby series.
1949 - 1950 4
Al Capp's Wolf Gal {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Toby comic: Al Capp's Wolf Gal (Toby, 1951 series). Other issues may exist. The Canadian reprints do not have the American News Company (ANC) mark on the cover. Nor do the Canadian reprints have the TOBY Press brand.
1951 - ? 1
All Western Winners {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of All-Western Winners (Marvel, 1948 series). Other issues likely exist.
1949 - 5
The American Air Forces {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 1
Apache Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: Apache Kid (Marvel, 1950 series). Other issues likely exist.
1951 - 1952 10
The Arizona Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: The Arizona Kid (Marvel, 1951 series)
1951 - 1952 6
Army Gags {Comic Books} 1942 - ? 2
Awful Oscar {Comic Books} 1949 - 1
Bad Men of Tombstone {Comic Books} 1951 - 1
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith {Comic Books} 1952 - 2
Battle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Other issues may exist.
1951 - 1951 4
Best Love {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition of the Marvel title with the same name.
1949 - 1950 3
Best of the West {Comic Books} 1951 - 2
Big Tex {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Toby comic: Big Tex (Toby, 1953 series).
1953 - 1
Billy the Kid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Billy the Kid Adventure Magazine on the cover. Canadian edition of the Toby comic. Toby logo on cover.
1950 - 1954 13
Black Diamond Western {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Lev Gleason comic: Black Diamond Western (Lev Gleason, 1949 series). Other issues may exist. Exact split between when Superior stopped publishing this comic and Super started is unknown.
1949 - 1950 13
The Black Knight {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition of the Toby Press (U.S.) title.
1953 - 1
Blaze Carson Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia for issue #4 states "Blaze Carson Comics", unknown if other issues include the word "Comics" or not. Reprints of Marvel series.
1948 - 1949 5
Blazing Comics {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
Blue Beetle {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fox comic: Blue Beetle (Fox, 1939 series). Other issues may exist.
1950 - 3
Blue Bolt {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 3
Blue Circle Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Rural Home comic: Blue Circle Comics (Rural Home, 1944 series). Also see Red Circle Comics (Superior Publications Limited, 1946 series).
1946 - ? 1
Bobby Benson's B-Bar-B Riders {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 6
Bogey Man {Comic Books} 1946 - ? 1
Bombardier Comics {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
Boy Comics [Boy Illustories] {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Boy Comics (Lev Gleason, 1942 series). There is much confusion over whether issues of this series were published by Superior or by Super. For convenience's sake, we have split the series when the distributor's mark changes to JBP, since that distributor appears on Super comics and not on Superior comics. There is even some evidence that some issues have both Superior and Super listed as the publisher in different locations in the comic. For example, issue #51 has an indicia with Super, but a note about being published by Superior inside the front cover. The other confusion in this series is the title. It is not certain whether all issues have the same name on the cover as in the indicia. To avoid duplication, the series title reflects both possibilities.
1948 - 1950 21
Brenda Starr Comics {Comic Books} Public Domain 1948 - 1949 10
Bruce Gentry Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Indicia title changes to Bruce Gentry with #6. Issues 5-8 were printed in the USA. Issues 6-8 give office addresses for Superior Comics in both New York, NY and Toronto, Ont.
1948 - 1949 7 (8)
Buck Rogers {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Toby series: Buck Rogers (Toby, 1951 series). Other issues may exist.
1951 - 2
Buddies in the U.S. Army {Comic Books} 1952 - 1
Campus Romances {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Avon comic: Campus Romance (Avon, 1949 series). Other issues may exist.
1950 - 3
Captain America Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: Captain America Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) and Captain America's Weird Tales (Marvel, 1949 series). Issues 74 and 75 are cover titled "Captain America's Weird Tales". Issue 74's indicia has been verified to be just "Captain America Comics" but issue 75's indicia has yet to be verified.
1948 - 1950 10
Captain America's Weird Tales {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: The last two issues of Captain America Comics are cover titled Captain America's Weird Tales. See http://www.comics.org/series/18401/ for these issues. *** Do Not Add Issues To This Series ***
1949 - 1950 0
Captain Steve Savage {Comic Books} 1951 - 4
Captain Tootsie {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 1
Cartoon Parade {Comic Books} 1945 - ? 2
Charles Starrett {Comic Books} 1951 - ? 7
Circus Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Distributed in the United Kingdom. Possibly distributed in Canada.
1950 - 1
Cody of the Pony Express {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Colossal Features Magazine {Comic Books} 1950 - 2
Comedy {Comic Books} 1945 - ? 1
Comedy Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1949 - ? 1
Complete Mystery Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: Complete Mystery (Marvel, 1948 series). Cover title is just "Complete Mystery", but scan of indicia of issue 2 showed "Complete Mystery Comics".
1948 - 1949 4
The Conquerors {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
Cowboys and Indians {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition of Cowboys and Indians (1949 series, Magazine Enterprises) #6-8.
1951 - 1952 3
Cowgirl Romances {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fiction House comic: Cowgirl Romances (Fiction House, 1950 series). Other issues may exist. Indicia states "by special arrangement with Love Romances Publishing, Inc.".
1952 - 1953 4
Crime and Punishment {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition reprints of U.S. series: Crime and Punishment (Lev Gleason, 1948 Series), with reduced page-count (36 instead of 52) and some alteration to covers.
1948 - 1950 20
Crime Patrol {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of EC comic: Crime Patrol (EC, 1948 series). Other issues may exist.
1949 - 5
Crimes by Women {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Crimes by Women (Fox, 1948 series). Other issues may exist.
1949 - 6
Cupid {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: Cupid (Marvel, 1949 series).
1950 - 1
Custer's Last Fight {Comic Books} 1951 - ? 1
Dagar {Comic Books} 1948 - 1949 3
Daredevil Comics {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 1
Desperado {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprints of the Lev Gleason series. Title is Desperado Illustories on the cover for issue #5-8, unknown if indicia matches.
1948 - 1949 7
Diary Secrets {Comic Books} 1949 - ? 2
Dick Cole {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 3
Dogface Dooley {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 1
Dr. Anthony King, Love Doctor {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1950 - ? 2
Dr. Mercy {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
Dynamic Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Issues 25 to 29 likely do not exist.
Public Domain
1947 - 1948 6
Eerie {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1953 - ? 2
Ellery Queen {Comic Books} 1949 - 4 (5)
Famous Crimes {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fox series: Famous Crimes (Fox, 1948 series). Other issues may exist.
1949 - 6
Feature Presentations {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 1
Feature Stories Magazine {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fox comic: Feature Stories Magazine (Fox, 1950 series).
1950 - 1
Felix the Cat {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Toby comic: Felix the Cat (Toby, 1951 series). For Canadian reprints of earlier issues that were published by Dell in the US, see Felix the Cat (Wilson Publishing, 1950 series).
1953 - 1954 17
Fight Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fiction House comic: Fight Comics (Fiction House, 1940 series). Other issues may exist in this series. There may also be reprints of earlier issues of the US series from Canadian publisher Publication Services Limited. If they exist, the issue numbers will not match the US issue numbers but will be renumbered starting at 1.
1953 - 6
Fighting Indians of the Wild West {Comic Books} 1952 - ? 1
Fighting Leathernecks {Comic Books} 1952 - ? 1
Film Star Romances {Comic Books} 1950 - 1
Firehair {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fiction House series. Other issues may exist.
1951 - 1952 4
First Romance {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 2
Flash {Comic Books} 1948 - 2
Four Most Boys {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1950 - ? 1
Frank Buck {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprints of the U.S. Fox series Frank Buck (1950 series).
1950 - 3
Frisky Fables {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 2
Frontier Romances {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Avon series.
1950 - 1
Frontline Combat {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of EC comic: Frontline Combat (EC, 1951 series).
1951 - 1953 15
G.I. War Brides {Comic Books} 1954 - 1955 8
Gals & Gags Cartoon Magazine {Comic Books} 1945 - ? 2
Gasoline Alley {Comic Books} 1950 - ? 2
Gay Comics {Comic Books} 1949 - ? 4
Ghost Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: More issues may remain to be documented.
1952 - ? 4
Ghost Rider {Comic Books} 1950 - 1951 4
Golden Lad {Comic Books} 1946 - 1
Great Lover Romances {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Toby series.
1952 - 7
Gunfighter {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of EC comic: Gunfighter (EC, 1948 series). Other issues may exist.
1949 - 5
Halt {Comic Books} 1942 - ? 1
Haunt of Fear {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of EC comic: Haunt of Fear (EC, 1950 series).
1950 - 1953 21
Hoot Gibson {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fox comic: Hoot Gibson (Fox, 1950 series). Other issues may exist.
1950 - ? 1
Horse Feathers Comics {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Lev Gleason series.
1948 - 2
The Human Torch {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Marvel comic: The Human Torch (Marvel, 1940 series). Other issues may exist.
1948 - 1949 4
Hurricane {Comic Books} 1949 - ? 1
I Loved Real Confession Stories {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian edition of the U.S. title from Fox with the same name (1949 series).
1950 - 4
Indians {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: Canadian reprint of Fiction House series.
1952 - 1953 9
Intimate Confessions {Comic Books} Disclose
Note: No publisher listed in comic, publisher assumed based on other Canadian reprints from the same US publisher.
1951 - ? 1

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