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 This section only covers those adventurers, powered or non-powered, who fit into the Superman or Batman model of what a superhero is. Characters had to have debuted in Canada but need not be Canadians themselves (though most are).
  To put things in perspective: if I was in danger, if I wanted someone who was physically capable of stopping a bad guy, I'd choose Cerebus over Captaine Kebec. But if I wanted help from someone I could be sure would actually bother to help me, I'd choose Kebec over Cerebus.
 Category note: Powers is used for people with natural/artificial superhuman abilities. abilities is used for crime fighters relying on extensive training and the like.

BEAVER BOY
Creators: Stanley Berneche & Peter Evans
Alter Ego:?
First appearance:Fuddle Duddle#4 1972
Most recent appearance: Fuddle Duddle#5; may also appear in a third story held by the National Archives
Powers:Super-intelligence
Foes:Media Master
Allies: Captain Canada (2) (he is the Captain's sidekick), Pam
Comments:supporting hero in a humour strip; presumably like his partner had to injest muskeg to retain power

BRAIN
Creator:?
Alter Ego:?
First appearance:Active Comics#? 1942 Commercial Signs
Most recent appearance:?
Powers:Super strength
Foes:?
Allies: ?
Comments:None

CANADA JACK
Creator:George M. Rae
Alter Ego:?
First Appearance:Canadian Heroes#5 1943, Educational Projects of Montreal
Most recent appearance:1945?
Abilities:Jiu-jitsu, horseman, gymnast
Foes:Nazis, "firebugs, reumour-mongers, black marketeers, shipyward saboteurs, kidnappers, POW escapees and railway saboteurs"; in his final adventure: a blue jay(!)
Allies:Canada Jack Club (young sidekicks based on a real life club the magazine set up)
Comments: Adventures mostly in the home front

CAPITAINE KEBEC (1)
Creator (primarily):Pierre Fournie
Alter Ego:?
First appearance:Les Aventures du Capitaine Kebec 1973, Les Editions de l'Hydrocephale
Most recent appearance:Titanic#7? BD 1983
Powers:super strngth, super speed, flight (brought on by meditation and other counterculture activities)
Foes:Frogueman, Bebitte
Allies: unnamed admirer, Josie, who becomes Capitaine Kebec (2)
Comments:humour character; possibly first French Canadian superhero; counter-culture hero; may be part of a long line of CK's (but none feature prominently in the mythos)

CAPITAINE KEBEC (2)
Creator:Pierre Fournier
Alter Ego:Josie
First appearance:Titanic#5 (as Josie), #7? (as Kebec) BD 1983
Most recent appearance:Titanic#7?
Powers:same as CK (1)?
Foes: Bebitte
Allies: Capitaine Kebec (1)
Comments: A rare case of passing the torch among homegrown Canadian heroes

CAPTAIN ATLANTIS/CAPTAIN FREEDOM/MADAMOISELLE
Creators: Geoffrey & Scott Stirling
Alter Egos:?
First appearance: Sunday Herald's Captain Newfoundland strip?
Most recent appearance:?
Abilites:?
Allies: each other?, Captain Canada (2)
Comments: Supporting heroes in Captain Canada's strip; Captain Atlantis recruited Canada into heroism; if anyone knows any more about these heroes I will later give them separate entries

CAPTAIN CANADA (1)
Creator:Gary Dunford
Alter Ego:?
First appearance: Bruno Gerushi Show (1969) radio
Most recent appearance: Bruno Gerushi Show (1970)
Powers:?
Foes:?
Allies: Groon (played by Bruno Gerushi)
Comments:Unlike the other characters in this document, Captain Canada (1) never appeared in comic books. He was played by Allan McFee; comedy hero

CAPTAIN CANADA (2)
Creators:Stanley Berneche & Peter Evans
Alter Ego:
First appearance:Fuddle Duddle#4 1972, JRD
Most recent appearance: Fuddle Duddle#5 1972; a third story is held by the National Archives of Canada
Powers:Super-Strength
Foes: Media Master, Ottawa counterculture
Allies: Beaver Boy, Pam
Comments:humour character; injested muskeg to sustain powers; pro-Establishment hero

CAPTAIN CANADA (3)
Creators:Geoffrey & Scott Stirling
Alter Ego:Daniel Eaton
First appearance: Sunday Herald's Captain Newfoundland strip 1980, (comic book format reprint:) Captain Newfoundland 1981
Most recent appearance:
Abilities: Athletic
Foes:Japanese robot
Allies: Captain Atlantis/Captain Freedom/Madamoiselle (qv)
Comments: the first non-humour Captain Canada; recruited into heroism by Captain Atlantis

CAPTAIN CANUCK
Creator: Richard Comely
Alter Ego:Tom Evans
First appearance: Captain Canuck#1, Comely Comics
Most recent appearance: Captain Canucks Preview#0
Powers: Double normal strength and speed
Foes: aliens that gave him powers including Nyro-Ka, Communists, Vikings, Blue-fox
Allies: Kebec (qv), Canadia International Security Organization (CISO), Micmac
Comments: Considered the first "Canadian Silver Age" superhero

CAPTAIN FREEDOM: see CAPTAIN ATLANTIS

CAPTAIN TAXTIME
Creator:?
Alter Ego:?
First Appearance: Capt. Taxtime#1?, 1990s
Most Recent appearance:?
Powers:?
Foes:?
Allies:?
Comments: satirical hero designed as an attack on the then proposed GST tax

FLEUR DE LYS
Creators:Mark Shainblum & Gabriel Morrisette
Alter Ego:Manon Deschamps
First appearance:?
Most recent appearance:?
Abilities: Martial artist
Foes:Manifest Desinty (ManDes)
Allies: Northguard (qv)
Comments: Quebecois superhero; supporting character in Northguard's strip

FREELANCE
Creators: Ted McCall (writer) and Ed Furness (artist)
Alter Ego: ?
First appearance: Freelance#1 1941, Anglo-American
Most recent appearance: Freelance#35 1946
Abilities: Athletic; high stamina
Foes: Super Six
Ally: Big John Collins
Comments: grew up in a lost Antarctic tropical valley tribe

IRON MAN
Creator: Vernon Miller
Alter Ego: ?
First appearance: Better Comics #1? 1941, Anglo-American
Most recent appearance: ?
Powers: Super strength, indestructibility, near-flight leaping
Foes: Nazis, pirates, etc.
Allies: Jean and Ted
Comments: the first Canadian superhero; lived in a sunken bubble city

JOHNNY CANUCK
Creator:Leo Bachle (who later become entertainer Les Barker)
Alter Ego:?
First Appearance: Dime Comics#1 1942, Bell Features
Most Recent Appearance:?
Abilities:Athletic; had a strong jaw
Foes: Axis, including Adolf Hitler himself
Allies:?
Comments:a high school student at the time, Bachle tended to make many of his real life rivals villains in the strip; most of Johnny's adventures took him abroad

KEBEC
Creator: Richard Comely
Alter Ego:?
First appearance:Captain Canuck#?, Comely
Most recent appearance:
Powers:?
Foes:?
Allies: Captain Canuck
Comments: first French Canadian hero in an English American comic

LONE GUARDIAN
Creators:T. Casey Brennan (American, writer) and John Allison
Alter Ego:?
First appearance: Orb#2 1974, Punk Publications
Most recent appearance:Orb#3, 1974 Orb Publications
Powers:?
Foes:Martian High Council
Allies: Northern Light (qv)
Comments:non-feature hero in the Northern Light strip; his job was to protect Mars from humanity's evils

MADAMOISELLE: see CAPTAIN ATLANTIS

NELVANNA OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS
Creator: Adrian Dingle
Alter Ego: Alana North
First appearance: Triumph-Adventure Comics#1, 1941, Hillborough Studios
Most Recent Appearance: Super Duper#7, 1947, FE Howard
Powers: Flight, Travel at light speed "along a giant ray of the Aurora Borealis", call upon Northern Lights' other powers (eg Koliak's ray: melting, disrupt radio communications), invisibility, shape shift, transform her brothern Tanero with her cloak, telepathy with brother, immortality
Foes: Kablunets (led by Toroff), Nazis, Vultor, Manchurian wolves, One-Ear Brunner, Dwarfo
Allies: Tanero, King Rano, Prince Targa (both of the Glacians), Corporal Keene of the RCMP
Comments: First Canadian patriotic hero and first Canadian female superhero

NORTHERN LIGHT
Creators: T. Casey Brennan (writer, American) and John Allison (artist)
Alter Ego: Ian Davis
First appearance: Orb#2 1974, Punk Publications
Most recent appearance:(in Canada) Orb#5 Orb Publications 1976 (anywhere) Power Comics#4 1977, Power Comics, a US co
Powers:Transform into invisble light, uncontrollable light burst, travel on light beams, super-strength
Foes:Martian High Council; other aliens who experiment on him, giving him his powers, Conquermind
Allies: Lone Guardian (qv), Alert (secret agency)
Comments: First story originally intended for E-Man. Names rejected for the character included Phantom Canadian and White Light

NORTHGUARD
Creator: Mark Shainblum (writer), Geoff Isherwood (pre-debut artist), Gabriel Morissette (debut artist)
Alter Ego: Phillip Wise
First appearance:  New Triumph Featuring Northguard 1984 Matrix Graphic
Most recent appearance:(Canada) New Triumph Featuring Northguard#5 1986 (anywhere):Northguard#3 (Caliber; American co)
Powers:Uniband (cybernetic weapons system; gives him the firepower equivalent to an army batallion)
Foes:Manifest Destiny (ManDes)
Allies: Progressive Allied Canadian Technologies (PACT), Fleur de Lys
Comments:real world setting superhero

ROACH
Creator: Dave Sim
Alter Ego:?
First Appearance: Cerebus The Aardvark#11 ? date, Aardvark-Vanaheim
Most recent appearance: Cerebus the Aardvark#?
Abilities: Strong, able to survive extreme damage
Foes: Cerebus (sometimes)
Allies: Cerebus (sometimes), Elrod, Astoria
Comments: Roach is the default name for a hero who switches code names in most appearances, often parodying popular heroes. Perhaps missing the point, his debut in some of these identities actually boost the value of certain issues of Cerebus. Lives in same land as Cerebus and is probably unaware of Earth's existence

SPEED SAVAGE
Creator:?
Alter Ego:?
First appearance: Triiumph Comics#? Hillborough Studios or Bell Features
Most recent appearance: Triumph Comics?#?
Powers:?
Foes:?
Allies: ?
Comments: wore grim looking costume

THUNDERFIST
Creator:?
Alter Ego:Randy King
First appearance:Active Comics#? 1942 Commercial Signs of Canada
Most recent appearance:?
Powers:Lightning powered
Foes:?
Allies: ?
Comments: alter ego a reporter

WING
Creator:?
Alter Ego:?
First appearance:Joke Comics#? 1942 Commerical Signs of Canada
Most recent appearance:?
Abilites: Two-fisted hero
Foes:?
Allies: ?
Comments: female superhero

  Sources:
 Bell, John (1992) Guardians of the North. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada (quotations above from that source)
 Rovin, Jeff (1985) The Encyclopedia of Super-Heroes. New York: Facts on File Publications

 E-Mail Assists: Wes Watts (Captain Taxman info)

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