Marvel Mystery Canadian 128 Page Giant 1 1

[eccomic]

The MM Annual covers are of a weaker fiber stalk and not as robust as their Educational Projects/FE Howard counterparts

 

Edited February 27, 2017 by eccomic

[Bronty]

Ok thanks .   How do they compare to Bell?   Colossal comics etc?

[aardvark88]

On ‎2017‎-‎02‎-‎26 at 7:01 AM, aardvark88 said:

fyi, the last WECA comics were from January, 1947. 

Means that the last month of published WECA restricted comics were in Jan, 1947 per Overstreet 2014-2015 back page article that you may be able to reference from a local public library or an online subscription.

bronty: all tracking bids  are welcome on ComicLink no reserve auction  for the MMC b/w 'annual.'

[pemart1966]

Here's some more information found in this Wiki article:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Whites

If you go to the bottom and click on the hot links, there's some interesting stuff there - the actual legislation regarding WECA and various amendments.

1.  Reference 3 in this article is the actual WECA - page 5 of the act (hold your cursor down and move it as if you're turning the pages of a book) tariff 177 mentions comics specifically.

2.  Reference 6 is the repealing of WECA August 15, 1944.

3.  Reference 7 is the revival of WECA November 26, 1947.  Page 2195 specifically mentions comics in similar, if not identical language to the 1940 WECA.

4.  Reference 8 is the final repeal of WECA effective January 1, 1950.

The article does mention that "foreign exchange controls" effectively kept American comics out of Canada during the 1944 - 1947 period even though the WECA had been repealed.  I'm not sure how that worked.  Perhaps someone with an understanding of this can explain.  

So although there was no ban on American comics during the '44 - '47 period, it would appear that these "foreign exchange controls" made it economically prohibitive for US publishers to do business in Canada.  Goodman, it would seem, got both of these books printed (possibly in Canada) during the hiatus and may not have been affected at all by "foreign exchange controls" if all of the work was done in Canada.  All he would have had to do was ship plates or negatives to a Canadian printer and as discussed above, he had a Canadian distributor during the time that his 1939/40 Timelys were sold in Canada prior to the WECA of 1940 and probably used the same.

5.  The revival of the WECA in 1947 and its final repeal in 1950 would go a long way in explaining the proliferation of US comics printed in Canada by companies like Superior and Bell during that time.  Between 1948 and 1950 tons of US titles were printed in Canada by these two companies - titles such as:  Marvel Mystery; Captain America; Human Torch; Sub-Mariner; Batman; Superman; Action; Detective etc etc.  Once the WECA was repealed for good then US comics printed in the US were allowed back in to Canada thereby ending these Canadian versions.

Thoughts?

 

 

 

 

Edited March 2, 2017 by pemart1966

[aardvark88]

On ‎2017‎-‎02‎-‎26 at 9:05 AM, Bronty said:

The more we talk about this the more I want the copy for sale

bump. About 24 hours left to bid. All mercy bids welcome on ComicLink, as high-rollers at ECCC, Seattle, WA con.

[Sqeggs]

Tells you something about the scarcity of this book that 5 of the 11 copies on the census are graded either 1.0 (one copy) or 0.5 (four copies).