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From Captain Canuck, writing and artwork by Richard Comely and George Freeman, with contributions by Claude St. Aubin; collected and edited by Justin Eisinger and Scott Dunbier, and published by IDW in 2009. The character Captain Canuck was created by Ron Leishman and Richard Comely in 1974. The first issue of the comic book, Captain Canuck #1, was independently published in July 1975, and several others were produced over the next five years. Captain Canuck (the book) contains issues 4 through 10 and a handful of shorter strips, including “Power Play,” that ran in several western Canadian newspapers in the ’70s. For more on the life of Captain Canuck, go to captaincanuck.com.