2013, July 22nd, Calgary Herald: "Captain Canuck True To Form In Web Series"

Lev Gleason Publishing has been rather quiet of late, and when they have been heard from, it's had little to do with their face-of-the-franchise, flag-bearing (in every sense) character.

My guess here is that the good Captain has quietly entered yet another period of dormancy. Admittedly, I feared this when much of the publisher's attention was suddenly directed to characters like Daredevil and Silver Streak. If LGP didn't lose interest in Captain Canuck entirely, they certainly found themselves distracted by another shiny object.

Ah well. Much gratitude for the material we did get, it was top shelf. Maybe one day inspiration strikes again.

In the meantime, for the hell of it, we'll go back a decade or so to when the good Captain returned in animated form. I recall the excitement generated from finding out about this and looking forward to each episode dropping. Good times. Hope they repeat themselves. 

"Holy Maple Leaf!"

In my March 15th post about the Captain Canuck newspaper comic strip, I mentioned that I would use my newspapers.com account to track down old articles about our favourite hero. It's taken me several months to finally get around to it but I poked around a bit tonight and found what I think is a good place to start.

This is the earliest article I could come across. It is from the June 10th, 1975, Ottawa Journal. Being that the first issue of the original series was cover-dated July of that year and was just about to hit the shelves, there can't be that many articles published prior to this one. It may be the very first. It probably doesn't reveal much you didn't already know, but it's interesting on that basis. 

Speaking of newspapers, I've added about a half dozen strips under the, well, Newspaper Strips page above. I'll be working on that over the next couple of nights as well. 

I'll post more of these articles as I locate them.