CanCom – The Walrus, January 2014Â
The white-gloved handler leads you through locked doors with his pass card, help into rooms where the lights blink on as you enter. He holds up the comic book so you can see it. No touching. The same rules apply to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, hospital stored nearby.
In Gatineau, Quebec, deep beneath the Library and Archives Canada Preservation Centre, more than 3,000 homegrown comics are preserved inside these climate-controlled vaults. One gem, Triumph-Adventure Comics number one, debuts Nelvana of the Northern Lights, an Inuit demigoddess who travels on a beam of the aurora borealis …