![]() Your patriotically minded but nerdy comic book friends may have already told you this. Published in August 1941, she predates Wonder Woman by three months. Copyright Nelvana Ltd./All rights reserved Rare talent The heroic Nelvana of the Northern Lights rides the aurora borealis on the cover of a 1945 comic book. Loosely based on an Arctic legend that the writer and illustrator Adrian Dingle heard from Group of Seven co-founder Franz Johnston, Nelvana is drawn in black and white and dressed in a cape, long sleeves, knee-high boots, and a fur-trimmed miniskirt. One gem, Triumph-Adventure Comics number one, debuts Nelvana of the Northern Lights, an Inuit demigoddess who travels on a beam of the aurora borealis. ![]() In Gatineau, Quebec, deep beneath the Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre, more than 3,000 homegrown comics are preserved inside these climate-controlled vaults. ![]()
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