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Best U.S. Realist Adventure Comic Strip,
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This review is from: Terry and the pirates (Flying buttress classics library) (Hardcover)
Amazon sometimes puts up these vague titles, then later revises the page. However NBM's TERRY AND THE PIRATES (Flying Buttress classics library) is a collection of the famous newspaper strip that ran from 1934 to 1973.
Note that Flying Buttress published two series: a series of oversized-octavo collections of the Sunday strips in color, and a trade-paperback series in which ALL THE STRIPS ARE IN BLACK AND WHITE including the Sunday strips, which are consequently often poorly reproduced. Nonetheless it's a comprehensive collection of Milton Caniff's best work (1934-1946.) Milton Caniff (1907-1988) was a cartonist who created the series at the behest of Colonel Joseph Patterson, editor of the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate. The strip relates the adventures of Terry Lee, "a wide-awake American boy," and his friends, notably two-fisted journalist Pat Ryan, in contemporary China. Initially crude artistically, Caniff benefited from working with talented fellow cartoonist Noel Sickels, who wrote and drew the strip "Scorchy Smith." With Sickels' help Caniff transformed into a brilliant draftsman and superb storyteller. He eventually became a stickler for complete accuracy and stressed great realism in his drawings, although many of his characters were highly colorful and imaginative. Attractive "bad girls" were a major feature, the most famous being the pirate queen the Dragon Lady. Initial adventures involved pirate treasure and the soap-operatic romances of Pat Ryan. However Caniff became increasingly concerned about Japanese aggression in China. Despite pressure from the newspaper syndicate Terry frequently tangled with "the invaders" until Pearl Harbor allowed him to identify them directly. In 1943 Terry became a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force. Caniff, who received the National Cartoonist Society's first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1946, later became its president. However for reasons of artistic control he abandoned "Terry and the Pirates" in 1947 to create "Steve Canyon."
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great, but doesn't have the famous Corkin speech,
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This review is from: Terry and the Pirates (Training With Flip Corkin #17,1943) (Paperback)
Although marked "1943," volume 17 of the Flying Buttress classics library is the November 1942 - May 1943 continuity.
Collectors beware! This sequence does NOT contain the famous October 17 Sunday episode in which Corkin delivers the Congressionally-recognized "Flight Officer" speech, which is to be found in the next album, "Taffy at War" (volume 18). Brought to a secret Japanese airbase by beautiful Axis spy Rouge in the previous episode, Terry Lee now aids U.S. paratroopers as they assault the base. Meanwhile USAAF pilot Corkin, supporting the raid, is shot down and must manage to survive the wiles of BOTH Rouge and a downed Japanese pilot. Eventually returning to base he is reunited with his galpal, army nurse Taffy Tucker. Terry's spying for the Kuomintang government has been more or less successful so he is rewarded with a commission as an air force cadet. Flip Corkin takes him under his wing but meanwhile Taffy is kidnapped by Rouge who gives her a near-fatal dose of morphine. Left for dead, her mindless body is found by Connie and Big Stoop, who bring her to Pat Ryan and Texan Joss Goode, USMC. Excellent drama-adventure from "The Rembrandt of the comic strip."
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