The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry
and the Pirates: The Master Collection. Reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal
set of color syndicate tabloid proofs that were unavailable for previous books,
this series is the ultimate edition of Caniff's masterpiece. We present the
Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before
been reprinted -- an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass
up.
The complete strip will be collected in twelve deluxe 11" x 14"
hardcover volumes, with a complementary thirteenth volume by Dean Mullaney and
Bruce Canwell that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the strip.
Terry
and the Pirates debuted in October 1934. For the next twelve years, Caniff would
weave a spell of exotic adventure, sex appeal, and humor. The cartoonist set the
strip in exotic China, where historic events occurring in the region during the
1930s provided the raw material from which he blended fantasy and reality to
create an extraordinary graphic narrative. The series introduces young Terry
Lee, his adult pal Pat Ryan, their sidekick Connie, as well as an array of
unforgettable brigands such as Captains Judas and Blaze, and the two toughest
women to ever sail on the China Seas: the alluring Burma and the inimitable
Dragon Lady.
No cartoonist has so heavily influenced his medium as has
Milton Caniff, and no comic strip has had more imitators than Terry and the
Pirates. Terry and the Pirates was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers
between 1934 and 1946.
Vol. 1 collects all dailies and Sundays from the
strip's beginning on October 22, 1934 through the end of 1935 in a deluxe 192
pp, 11" x 14", hardcover.
“In the first few years of Terry and the
Pirates, Milton Caniff invented the visual and textual language that defines the
very vocabulary of all adventure and character-based comic art.... It is the
greatest adventure comic strip ever done—a genuine masterpiece of its art
form.”
— Howard V. Chaykin
- ISBN10 1951038398
- ISBN13 9781951038397
- Publish Date 2 August 2022
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Clover Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 192
- Language English