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News media coverage for Captain Canuck has been unprecedented, starting with the first issue dominating national news. He has appeared on the covers of Time magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Toronto Star, The National Post, Walrus and many other newspapers and periodicals. Captain Canuck comics have been featured on Corner Gas many times. Over the years there have been a number of licensed Captain Canuck products including: T-shirts, Children’s tops, sweat shirts, phone cards, post cards, mouse pads, iron on crests, and doodle posters. Posters, pens and note pads were successfully issued by the publisher. Canada Post issued a Captain Canuck postage stamp in 1995. It quickly became one of Canada Post’s best selling stamps ever by selling all six million stamps printed. In 1979 Captain Canuck became the first and only Canadian published super hero comic book distributed on the mass market throughout the United States. Captain Canuck has been featured in ten different text books to date including one British, one German and one in French. Total print run for all these text books is in the hundreds of thousands. He is also featured in a number of books including: Invaders From The North, The Superhero Book and The Maple Leaf Forever, A Celebration of Canadian Symbols Captain Canuck was featured in Maxim magazine (1.5 million circulation) in May 2008 as one of the super heroes to watch for as an upcoming movie sensation. California based IDW Publishing published two hard cover volumes collecting issues #4 to #14. The first volume was released in late 2009 and the second in 2010. Richard Comely and his two assistants; George Freeman and Claude St. Aubin were inducted into the Joe Shuster Canadian Comic Book Creator Awards Hall of Fame on June 5th 2010 celebrating Captain Canuck’s 35th anniversary. |
