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{{short description|Defunct Canadian comics publisher}}
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| status = Defunct (c. 1946)
| founded = March [[1941 in comics|1941]]
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| country = [[Canada]]
| headquarters = [[Vancouver]], [[British Columbia]], Canada
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| publications = [[Comic book]]s
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'''Maple Leaf Publishing''' was a [[World War II]]-era [[Canada|Canadian]] [[comic book]] publisher active during the [[Golden Age of Comic Books]]. They were one of four publishers—along with [[Anglo-American Publishing]], [[Hillborough Studios]], and [[Bell Features]]—which published "[[Canadian Whites]]"—[[black-and-white]] comic books with colour covers that proliferated during the war years when American imports were restricted.<ref name="BTFGoldenAge" /> Maple Leaf Publishing started publishing comic books in March 1941 and went out of business in late 1946.

In contrast to the larger [[Anglo-American Publishing|Anglo-American]], which published many comics drawn by [[Canadians]] but based on imported American scripts, Maple Leaf focused on home-grown scripts. Maple Leaf's first publication, ''Better Comics'' #1, is thus considered to be the first true [[Canadian comics|Canadian comic book]].<ref name="ComicSyrupMApleLeafPublishing" />

Maple Leaf's comics were modeled on the American format, minus the colour interiors. Notable titles other than ''Better Comics'' included ''Big Bang Comics'', ''Lucky Comics'' and ''Rocket Comics''.<ref name="EncyclopediaLiteratureCanada" />

== Titles published ==
* ''Better Comics'' (34 issues, March 1941 - August/September 1946)
* ''Bing Bang Comics'' (31 issues, November–December 1941 - May–June 1946)
* ''Lucky Comics'' (34 issues, June 1941 - October–November 1946)
* ''Name-It Comics'' (1 issue, Nov./Dec. 1941)
* ''Rocket Comics'' (32 issues, 1941–1946)

==See also==
{{Portal|Comics|Canada}}

==References==
=== Sources consulted ===
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=== Notes ===
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<ref name="ComicSyrupMApleLeafPublishing">{{cite web |url=http://comicsyrup.wordpress.com/tag/maple-leaf-publishers/|title=Maple Leaf Comics|access-date=2011-12-18|date=2011-09-07|website=comicsyrup.wordpress.com|publisher=Comic Syrup Press}}</ref>

<ref name="BTFGoldenAge">{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/comics/027002-8300-e.html|publisher=[[Library and Archives Canada]]|author=[[John Bell (historian)|Bell, John]]|access-date=2011-12-18|title=Beyond the Funnies: Canadian Golden Age of Comics, 1941-1946|date=2002-06-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007031905/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/comics/027002-8300-e.html|archive-date=2011-10-07|url-status=dead}}</ref>

<ref name="EncyclopediaLiteratureCanada">[[Bart Beaty|Beaty, Bart]]. "Comic Books and Graphic Novels", page 221–223.''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'' (New, William N., editor). University of Toronto Press, 2002.</ref>

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