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List Of Terry And The Pirates Comic Strips
''Terry and the Pirates'' is an American comic strip that originally ran from October 22, 1934, until February 25, 1973. The daily and Sunday strips ran separate storylines until August 25, 1936. A revival series (re-imagining the strip and setting it in the current day) ran from March 26, 1995, until July 27, 1997. Original series strips Milton Caniff Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (; February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an People of the United States, American cartoonist famous for the ''Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Terry and the Pirates'' and ''Steve Canyon'' comic strips. Biography ... Daily-Only Stories *001 - "The Lost Gold Mine" (10/22/34 to 1/25/35) *002 - "On a Mystery Cruise" (1/26/35 to 6/8/35) *003 - "Thugs and Lovers" (6/10/35 to 12/19/35) *004 - "St. Louis Blues on the Road to Mandalay" (12/20/35 to 4/23/36) *005 - "A Jewel of a Woman" (4/24/36 to 8/24/36) Sunday-Only Stories *006 - "Enter the Dragon Lady (character), Dragon Lady" (12/9/34 to 3/10/35) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terry And The Pirates (comic Strip)
''Terry and the Pirates'' is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff's work on the children's adventure strip ''Dickie Dare'' and hired him to create the new adventure strip, providing Caniff with the title and locale. The Dragon Lady leads the evil pirates; conflict with the pirates was diminished in priority when World War II started. The strip was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers between 1934 and 1946. In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on ''Terry and the Pirates''. Writer Tom De Haven described ''Terry and the Pirates'' as "''the'' great strip of World War II" and "The ''Casablanca'' of comics". Publication history The daily strip began October 22, 1934, and the Sunday color pages began December 9 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are '' Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in ''Popeye'', ''Captain Easy'', ''Buck Rogers'', ''Tarzan'', and ''Terry and the Pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Caniff
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (; February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an People of the United States, American cartoonist famous for the ''Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Terry and the Pirates'' and ''Steve Canyon'' comic strips. Biography Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Caniff did cartoons for local newspapers while studying at Stivers High School (now Stivers School for the Arts) in Dayton Ohio. At Ohio State University, Caniff joined the Sigma Chi fraternity and later illustrated for ''The Magazine of Sigma Chi'' and ''The Norman Shield'' (the fraternity's pledgeship/reference manual). Graduating in 1930, Caniff began at the ''Columbus Dispatch'' where he worked with the noted cartoonists Billy Ireland and Dudley Fisher, but Caniff's position was eliminated during the Great Depression. Caniff related later that he had been un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Lady (character)
The Dragon Lady, also known as Madam Deal, was a well-known character in the U.S. comic strip ''Terry and the Pirates'', created by Milton Caniff, and in the movie serial, comic books, and TV series based on the comic strip. Her real name is Lai Choi San, a real-life 20th century pirate. Origin The Dragon Lady first appeared in December 1934, in the first Sunday strip story. She began as a stereotypically beautiful, seductive and evil Asian, but as the comic strip became more realistic, the character grew more complex. Fans of the strip recall her passionate love for the journalist and man-of-action Pat Ryan, and the time she taught Terry how to dance. In the years leading up to World War II, she became a heroic, though Machiavellian figure, leading the resistance against the Japanese invasion of China. She was described as "beautiful as Aphrodite, wise as Athena, swifter than Mercury, and stronger than Hercules." According to ''Milton Caniff: Conversations'', she "was modeled f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wunder
George S. Wunder (April 24, 1912 – December 13, 1987) was a cartoonist best known for his 26 years illustrating the ''Terry and the Pirates (comic strip), Terry and the Pirates'' comic strip. Born in Manhattan, Wunder grew up in Kingston, New York. As a youth, he planned a career as a professional comics artist. Other than correspondence courses, including the International Correspondence School art course, he was a self-taught artist. At the age of 24, he began as a staff artist at the Associated Press, where he worked alongside illustrator Noel Sickles and sports cartoonist Tom Paprocki. At AP, Wunder illustrated fiction and various editorial cartoon features, such as "Can Hitler Beat the Russian Jinx?" During World War II, he served in the Army from 1942 to 1946. Returning to the Associated Press after World War II, he drew the strip ''See for Yourself'' in 1946 for AP Newsfeatures. ''Terry and the Pirates'' In 1946, when Milton Caniff left ''Terry and the Pirates'', there w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brothers Hildebrandt
Greg and Tim Hildebrandt, known as the Brothers Hildebrandt (born January 23, 1939), are American twin brothers who worked collaboratively as fantasy and science fiction artists for many years. They produced illustrations for comic books, movie posters, children's books, posters, novels, calendars, advertisements, and trading cards. Tim Hildebrandt died on June 11, 2006. Career Born in Detroit, Michigan, Greg and Tim Hildebrandt began painting professionally in 1959 as the Brothers Hildebrandt. The brothers both held an ambition to work as animators for Walt Disney, and although they never realized this dream, their work was heavily influenced by illustration style of Disney feature films such as ''Snow White'', ''Pinocchio'' and ''Fantasia''. They were also influenced by the artwork in comic books and science fiction books, notably the work of Norman Rockwell and Maxfield Parrish. The brothers are best known for their popular ''The Lord of the Rings'' calendar illustrations, il ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Uslan
Michael E. Uslan (; born June 2, 1951) is an American lawyer and film producer. Uslan has also dabbled in writing and teaching, he is known for being the first instructor to teach an accredited course on comic book folklore at any university. Early life Uslan was born in Bayonne, New Jersey and was an avid comic book collector from a very young age, owning a collection that included the second issue of Batman and the first Superman comic, among others. He grew up in Ocean Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey and graduated from Ocean Township High School in 1969, by which time his collection filled the garage of his home with 30,000 comic books. A fan of the darkness inherent in the Batman comics, he was dismayed by the campy portrayal of the character in the '60s television series, which was at the height of its popularity during Uslan's teen years. While still an undergraduate and a graduate at the same time at Indiana University School of Law – Bloomington, attempting to br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Spiegle
Dan Spiegle (December 10, 1920 – January 28, 2017) was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies, including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics. Biography Early life and career Dan Spiegle was born in Cosmopolis, Washington, in 1920, and raised there and in Honolulu, Hawaii, and northern California. After high school, Spiegle "found myself in the Navy", where he worked on the base newspaper and on insignias for airplanes. Following his discharge in 1946, Spiegle enrolled at the Chouinard Art Institute of Los Angeles on the G.I. Bill. Spiegle began his professional cartoonist career in 1949 drawing the comic strip '' Hopalong Cassidy'' for the Mirror Enterprises Syndicate. He continued to draw this strip after it was bought out by King Features in 1951, until it was cancelled in 1955. Dell and Gold Key Comics His earliest confirmed work in comic books is penciling and inking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Comic Strips
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