Hillborough Studios

Hillborough Studios

Status	Defunct (1942)
Founded	August 1941
Country of origin	Canada
Headquarters location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Key people	Adrian Dingle René Kulbach André Kulbach
Publication types	Comic books

Hillborough Studios was a short-lived Canadian comic book publisher, founded in 1941, most notable for publishing Adrian Dingle's Nelvana of the Northern Lights.

Overview

In August 1941, Hillborough was founded in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by Adrian Dingle, the brothers René and André Kulbach, and an anonymous investor. Their flagship title was called Triumph-Adventure Comics, and featured the most famous character of what has been called the Golden Age of Canadian comics—Dingle's Nelvana of the Northern Lights, the first Canadian female superhero, who debuted several months before Wonder Woman.

After seven monthly issues, Dingle brought Triumph-Adventure to Bell Features in early 1942, and was followed by most of the Hillborough staff.

Further reading

• Bell, John (2006). Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-659-7.