''The Complete Terry and The Pirates'' is a collection of the

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, ''

Terry and the Pirates ''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, ...

.'' The strip was authored by

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and originally appeared in newspapers between 1934 and 1946 by the

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with over 31 million readers. The collection comprises six hardcover volumes and was published by

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between 2007 and 2009. The series' first volume won the 2008

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in the category ''Best Archival Collection - Project - Comic strips''.

Format

The volumes measure 11 × 8.5 inches, (278 mm × 216 mm). The

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s are reproduced in full color alongside the

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. The material was sourced from

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's private collection with supplemental pages from

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. Three black-and-white daily strips appear on each page. Each Sunday strip appears on a separate page. Introductions were written by

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and Bruce Canwell, putting the strip and its plotlines in historical context. Background on the strip's characters, an overview of the cast, as well as an index are included. Each book has about 360 pages and comes with a dust jacket. Since ''The Complete Terry and the Pirates'' would be The Library of American Comics' publishing debut, there were pre-launch questions about if the project would be completed as a whole or cancelled before completion. Dean Mullaney, the publisher and editor of the series had however already taken this risk in account, therefore all six volumes of the series were produced all in one go and in advance to the series' debut, so that LOAC later would be able to publish the whole series whatever response it would receive from buyers when the volumes were consecutively released.

Volumes

References

External links

Publisher website - IDW Publishing - The Library of American Comics - ''The Complete Terry And The Pirates''

The Library of American Comics' YouTube channel - Inside look: ''Terry and the Pirates - Vol. 1''

The Library of American Comics' YouTube channel - Inside look: ''Terry and the Pirates - Vol. 2''

The Library of American Comics' YouTube channel - Inside look: ''Terry and the Pirates - Vol. 3''

The Library of American Comics' YouTube channel - Inside look: ''Terry and the Pirates - Vol. 5''

The Library of American Comics' YouTube channel - Inside look: ''Terry and the Pirates - Vol. 6''
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