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"Export Publishing" was a comic books, pocket books and junior publication house. | "Export Publishing" was a comic books, pocket books and junior publication house. According to<ref>The Author and Journalist, 1948-10: Vol 33 Iss 10, p 21</ref> their precident, Stanley Roland Schrag, it was a parent company of several Canadian publishing printing concerns. | ||
The printing house burned<ref>"Out of control five hours", Toronto Daily Star. 11 December 1951, p. 5</ref> down in December 1951 and was never<ref>"The bankruptcy act - sale by tender", Toronto Daily Star. 8 October 1952, p 37</ref> rebuilt. | Their comic books were original material and reprinted US comics - such as "Captain Midnight", "Hobby Comics", "Hopalong Cassidy", "Holiday Comics" - when American comics were not allowed to cross the border. | ||
The printing house burned<ref>"Out of control five hours", Toronto Daily Star. 11 December 1951, p. 5</ref> down in December 1951 and was never<ref>"The bankruptcy act - sale by tender", Toronto Daily Star. 8 October 1952, p 37</ref> rebuilt. | |||
==Mandrake== | ==Mandrake== | ||
Revision as of 19:01, 17 August 2025
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| Founded: | 1947 |
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| Country: |  Canada
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Export Publishing Entreprises Limited was a Canadian publisher in the years 1947-1951, based in New Toronto, Ontario.
History
"Export Publishing" was a comic books, pocket books and junior publication house. According to[1] their precident, Stanley Roland Schrag, it was a parent company of several Canadian publishing printing concerns.
Their comic books were original material and reprinted US comics - such as "Captain Midnight", "Hobby Comics", "Hopalong Cassidy", "Holiday Comics" - when American comics were not allowed to cross the border.
The printing house burned[2] down in December 1951 and was never[3] rebuilt.
Mandrake
In this specific reprinting way, "Feature Book 55 (Export Publishing)" - one of the issues of the David McKay Company's Feature Book series, with Mandrake - was published by "Export Publishing" in 1949 by arrangement with the McKay company.
The Canadian publisher has also released the Big Giant Comics series composed of various material from the American comic-books (at least one issue of this series has a Mandrake story: issue #5).