And since I mentioned it, CAPTAIN CANUCK 1-14 was the first visibly Canadian comic I was aware of.




It evolved from a truly awful first issue into a really nice sci-fi/spy adventure series, that made Canada almost a character in the storyline. It evolved quickly into a fun and beautifully illustrated series, largely due to the efforts of artist George Freeman, who I followed to many other projects he drew after CAPTAIN CANUCK was cancelled, including SABRE issue 3 (1982), several stories in MARVEL FANFARE, and his JACK OF HEARTS miniseries, to name just a few.


http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/creator.php?creatorid=934

I'd forgotten Freeman did a story with Alan Moore in BATMAN ANNUAL 11.

I also liked artist Jean-Claude St. Aubin, who mostly did backup stories and sometimes assisted on the lead story. CAPTAIN CANUCK was also very beautifully but uniquely colored, like no other book I've seen, and like Byrne's Alpha Flight stories, both in X-MEN and in their own ALPHA PLIGHT series, showed a lot of the Canadian landscape.

I'm not really clear why CAPTAIN CANUCK was cancelled in 1981, they promoted a next issue in 14 with no signs of cancellation. My sense is it was a cash flow problem on the business end, and possibly creative differences, or Freeman wanting to move on to other projects.


Complete issues, CAPTAIN CANUCK 1-15:
http://12comic.com/comic.jsp?id=190227072310fatv