During WWII, there was a prohibition in Canada on importing luxury goods from abroad — particularly the USA. This included a ban on pulp magazines and comics (but not on highbrow titles like Harper's, natch — those were essentials!). This led to a made-in-Canada pulp-publishing boom, during which Canada spawned dozens of True Crime, sci-fi, romance, western and other pulps, and put hundreds of Canadian writers to work on them.
This site is dedicated to the glory years of Canadian True Crime magazine publishing in Canada — lovely stuff.
(via We Make Money Not Art)
