John Bell (born 1952) is a Canadian comics historian and senior archivist at Library and Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario).
He specializes in the history of English Canadian comic books, and has curated a number of exhibitions and websites.
[2] Bell was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with roots in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
He has authored a number of books on the subject, starting with Canuck Comics in 1986, followed by Guardians of the North in 1992, on Canadian superheroes, and Invaders from the North in 2006.
In 1992, he curated the Guardians of the North: The National Superhero in Canadian Comic-Book Art exhibition, which was revised and expanded in 2001 into a Library and Archives Canada website.