The exposition, and thus the book, covered much the same ground as THE GREAT CANADIAN COMIC BOOKS and CANUCK COMICS, although in somewhat greater depth and with a narrower focus. Bell emphasized superhero characters with a strong Canadian national flavour: including JOHNNY CANUCK, NELVANA OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS, three different versions of CAPTAIN CANADA, Richard Comely's CAPTAIN CANUCK, and well as my own NORTHGUARD and FLEUR-DE-LYS characters. This led, not indirectly, to Canada Post's 1995 Superhero Stamp Series, which included most of the above characters and Superman (co-created by Canadian-born Joe Shuster). As an aside, John Bell also wrote a historical introduction encapsulating much of the same historical material in NORTHGUARD: MANIFEST DESTINY, a collection of the first five issues of NORTHGUARD, published in 1991 by Caliber Press.