The Great Canadian Drawing Contest

Triumph Comics, also called Triumph Adventure Comics, was published in Canada by Hillborough Studios in 1941. Most comic historians are familiar with their premiere character of Nelvanna of the Northern Lights who was the first Canadian superheroine, but they also managed to have one of those, "we're too lazy to finish the artwork, so you do it for us" drawing contests. Once Bell Features bought out Hillborough, they changed the title to just Triumph Comics, and one of their ads was for a free event where they drew out the bodies of three separate characters but expected the rank amateurs to fill in the rest. The characters were supposedly a flamboyant sailor, a standard comics good girl, and person of short stature who most would probably picture as being a food mascot or a Mr. Monopoly clone. While the effort put into this is minimal, it included ripping out a page from a Golden Age comic book and sending it to the publisher which critically devalues the price for any future collectors. The prizes for this were a dozen different items including lots of camping equipment including binoculars and hunting knives, plus kids watches, baseball gear, a perfume set for girls, and an air rifle for boys even though girls could use it too if they're not into perfume. No idea if Bell Features ever actually printed out the winning entries or if anyone genuinely got prizes from this cheap publicity scam. Hopefully, there weren't any poor Canuck kids who were taken advantage of in this shabby excuse of a contest.