Anglo-American's Obscure Superhero Stickers

From 1941-51, a Canadian comic book company named Anglo-American Publishing made a good living reprinting titles from America, specifically Fawcett Comics including Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher. They also created their own line of original characters, few of which got their own comic but were featured in anthologies like Grand Slam or Three Aces. Another feather in their cap was some sweet Golden Age swag in the form of Glo-Crests. These were some of the first glow-in-the-dark stickers ever made, at least of licensed characters, and hopefully didn't cause cancer like other luminescent products of the time because they were soaked in radium. These stickers could absorb light and could be put on clothing as well as being washable. Aside from one of Captain Marvel himself, the rest of sticker catalog included lost heroes like Terry Kane, Dr. Destine, Purple Rider, Red Rover, Commander Steel, as well as the super vehicles of the Hurri-Kane car and the starship of the Crusaders. The cool feature of this was that you could choose which one of the ten separate stickers they offered and how many you wanted, so there was probably an extra-helping of Capt. Marvel ones handy as only hardcore Anglo-American would care about the ones of mountie Kip Keene. Aside from the possibly toxic stickers, the publishing company also offered full-sized color posters of their own Doc Savage forgery, Freelance. Glo-Crests were a good idea from a marketing perspective creating merchandise of indeterminate comics characters, even though the appeal of a random cowboy, jungle man, or criminologist might not gain as much traction from the Man from Shazam who was even beating out Superman in sales at the time. All that, plus fifteen cents per sticker back then would round out to $2.50 by today's economy.