Alfred Hörs Gustafson, a successful pulp mill operator, founds the Gustafson Publishing Corporation in Fort Frances, Ontario.
1935
GPC publishes its first pulp novel, Weird North Tales. Alfred H. Gustafson contributes under pen-name Gus Albertman.
Art by: Nicolas J. Kirby (pencils), Peter Sampson (inks).
◄ December 1939
Gustafson and his assistant Nicolas J. Kirby create the patriotic super-hero Crusader for publication Infinity Comics No. 1. The Shadow Lady and Wilson of The Mounted, both creations of Kirby, also appear.
The Canadian Government Passes the War Exchange Conservation Act, which prohibited the trade of non-essential goods form the US, including American comics. Realizing the immense appeal of American comics with Canadian children, Gustafson launches Infinity Comics, hiring Kirby as his chief writer and artist.
April
All-Out War Comics No. 1 (featuring the Canadian Shield, a team consisting of the super-heroes Crusader, Red Claw and Miss Steelwill) and Captain Infinity Comics No. 1 are published.
July
Infinity introduces Fathom, Cheetah and Miss Infinity in their own titles, and a second-string hero called Cat-Man appears in All-Out War Comics No. 2.
May 1942
The peak of Infinity Comics' production.
July 1944
All-Out War Comics No. 25 is published although No. 24 was never produced. See story.
Art by: Nicolas J. Kirby.
► September 1946
Infinity's last title, All-Out War Comics No. 32 was printed in Fort Frances. Infinity was forced to fold after five years, since wartime exchange controls were eased and it could not compete with the better
known American books.
1955
The Arctic Crypt is the first in a series of hardcover novels featuring the Canadian Shield written by Alfred H. Gustafson with illustrations by Nicolas J. Kirby. In all, eight are published by GPC over the next five years
Canadian Shield #1 is published as part of an attempted relaunch of Infinity Comics. Nicolas J. Kirby is once again artist and writer of this title, and the later Captain Infinity.
September 1965
Canadian Shield #10 is the last comic published under the Infinity banner.
July 1986
Transformers: The Ultimate Doom, the first story written by Nick Gustafson, is published.
An one-page comic strip featuring the Ninjabots is published. These original Transformer characters were
co-created by David Tarveinen and appeared in prior text stories by Nick Gustafson.
Catman & The Stanley Cup.
◄ April 1990
Catman and the Stanley Cup, starring a feline super-hero created by Nick Gustafson.With the backing of GPC, Nick Gustafson forms Nick Comics Group. Its first title, Catman #1, continued where the previous story left off. Nicolas Kirby contributed an illustration of the new namesake to his Golden Age creation Cat-Man.
June
Nick Comics Group launches 14 titles mostly starring characters created by Nick Gustafson, and all written and drawn by him. These were:
Catman: The Feline Crusader,
Fantasy Tales,
Lynx,
Adventure Tales,
Mystery Tales,
Phantom,
Captain Canada,
The Defenders,
Ninjabots,
Nick Comics Presents,
Nick Universe,
Star Trek®: Explorer and
Back To The Future®.
