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Terry And The Pirates (Comic Strip)Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. The daily strip began October 22, 1934, while the Sunday color pages started appearing on December 9, 1934. The story-lines were different at the beginning, but then, starting on August 26, 1936 daily strips and Sunday pages merged into one single story-line. The early years had Terry, his adult companion and a native guide, Connie have numerous acclaimed adventures where they matched wits with pirates and various other villains, especially the femme fatale, The Dragon Lady, and numerous oriental stereotypes. As World War II broke out, the strip followed suit with Terry joining the army's air corps and the Dragon Lady deciding to support The Allies. Although this change of tone is considered the end of the strip's prime, the strip was still highly acclaimed. The most noted example was a Sunday strip where Terry, having just gotten his status as a fighter pilot listened to a speech by his commanding officer admonishing him to show proper respect to the inventors of powered flight, his aircraft's designers, his support crew and to the military bureaucracy. This strip was reprinted in the Congressional Record. In addition, Caniff, on his own time, created a variant Terry strip for Stars and Stripes with a racier tone for the troops. Caniff was later convinced to rename the strip, Male Call, to avoid confusion with the regular strip. Caniff had a contract dispute with his syndicate and left in 1946; his last Terry strip was published on December 29. He went on to create Steve Canyon, another continuing, action-adventure strip that Caniff ran until 1988, year of his death. After Caniff left, George Wunder carried Terry and the Pirates for twenty-seven more years, until 1973. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative postage stamps. In 1953, Canada Dry offered a "premium giveaway" (freebie) with a case of its ginger ale — one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips printed by Harvey Comics. Later incarnations of Caniff's beloved work included a television series and a radio show. Related topics External links
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