Most of the magazine is filled with forgettable material: the lead feature is "Spanner" Preston, a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force, in a comic with almost no dialogue, and captions that merely describe what can already be seen in the panels. "If every boy and girl in this great continent of ours", says she, "makes a gigantic effort to buy war savings stamps, the tyranny now on this earth will vanish into its own nothingness!" Nelvana protects Canada's frozen north from invaders. Toronto's Hillborough Studios, founded by unemployed artists Adrian Dingle and Rene and Andre Kulbach, filled the void with their cheaply-printed black and white publication, promising "clean and wholesome" thrills for all ages. The War Exchange Conservation Act introduced in December of 1940 banned the import of non-essentials, such as periodicals, mostly of the fiction variety.
What's black and white and red all over? The cover of TRIUMPH-ADVENTURE COMICS #1 (August 1941), whose two-colour cover promised fun, mystery and adventure for kids suffering from the dearth of American comic books at Canadian newsstands during World War 2.
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