Pioneer Publishing of London , Ontario , is a occult publishing company who put out this unusual Phantom Lady # 17 reprint in 1948 .
The oddly - titledAvenger Crime Comic # 25was publish by the equally obscure Canadian publisher Pioneer Publications of London , Ontario . Little is known about this society beyond thehandful of comic booksit published in 1948 . There is some confusion between this fellowship and the publisher Pioneer Publications , Inc. , which had offices in London ( England ) , Toronto , and New York and was a publisher of mid-1940s DIY and instructional script such asDiesel Hand Book : A Practical Book of InstructionandPractical Home Plans , but it seems unconvincing that this is the same company .
To this meager profile , we can add that Pioneer Publications of London , Ontario , almost issue a comic Holy Scripture calledMiracle Comicsin 1945 and subject a right of first publication for this claim assign toEmmett Kelleherof London , Ontario , as an unpublished literary work . It ’s indecipherable whether Kelleher is the creator of the comic in its entirety or is also connected to the publisher ( for exercise , Bell Features’Cy Bellis sometimes list on his own in connexion to the right of first publication of Bell Features publication , depending on the circumstances ) . Given that WECA ( War Exchange Conservation Act ) had terminate by this time and also collapse the beingness of the earlier U.S. Hillman title of that name and Pioneer ’s late reissue strategy , it ’s also deserving marvel if this too was meant to be a reprint claim . That might make it more likely that Kelleher was the man behind the publisher .
Emmett Kelleher ( 1904 - 1966 ) had been a longtime newspaper newsperson throughout Canada and operated his own news bureau in the 1930s . He became the London , Ontario correspondent for the Candian Press in 1939 , and worked as a public relations police officer for the Canadian Army during WWII . He was later a publicist for General Motors in Canada . In 1929 , Kelleher made national newspaper headline in both the U.S. and Canada with his reporting onthe lost MacAlpine expedition , whose two plane had disappeared in the Arctic . The expedition survived with the assistant of a nearby Inuit camp . The next year , Kelleher again made headlines , this base on trapperJoe Labelle ’s tales of a " Village of the Dead , " with claims thatan entire Inuit Greenwich Village had been get hold desert . While the heart and soul of the story was soon look at debunked a the time , one more late author has connected some details of Kellerher ’s reporting of what Labelle honor withCaptain Sir John Franklin ’s 1840s Artic geographic expedition with the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror .
Regardless of the nature of Kelleher ’s relationship with Pioneer Publications of London , Ontario , it ’s little surprisal that the company ’s late-1945 attempt at publishing a comic Bible in Canada did n’t come about at that time . A wobble climate for publisher combine with continued trouble in arrive paper made mirthful book publishing difficult across the board . With FECA ( the Foreign Exchange Conservation Act ) underway in Canada begin November 17 , 1947 , prohibiting the import of printed U.S. comic books but allowing the significance of materials needed to reissue them , a issue of publishers jumped into the comic book reprint business enterprise . Avenger Crime Comic # 25reprints Fox’sPhantom Lady # 17(which is of course , one of the most in - requirement laughable book of the former Golden Age ) . The book binding here is a reworking of the inside front covering fire of Phantom Lady # 17 , and the colorist ofAvenger Crime Comic ’s cover manifestly charter their cues for Phantom Lady ’s costume from that inside front cover as well , which was print using sinister and red ink wholly . There’san Apparent VG- copyof this unequaled little bit of history up for vendue at the 2025 March 13Canadian Golden Age Comics ShowcaseAuction # 40290 .
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