New Releases by Milton Caniff

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 12, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!  In this final volume Milton Caniff gives curtain calls to many of his vivid, colorful characters. Readers will be sometimes delighted, sometimes shocked by their last visits with Terry, Pat, Connie, Big Stoop, the Dragon Lady, Burma, Hotshot Charlie, Jane Allen, Deeth Crispin III, Chopstick Joe, Tony Sandhurst, Baron DePlexus, Cap'n Blaze, and others. It's time to ring out the old and ring in the new in Caniff's classic Terry and the Pirates conclusion! This tabloid-sized Volume 12 containing the 1946 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 11, reproduced from Milton Caniff''s personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! ufeffIt''s a new year of reunions, not resolutions--Terry and Pat join forces! They connect with the Dragon Lady--and with Terry''s old flame, Hu Shee! Terry, Hotshot Charlie, and Hu Shee cross paths with swashbuckling pirate Johnny Jingo, in turn joining Terry''s old friend April Kane before a new encounter with Nazi collaborator Papa Pyzon! Papa is exactly who he seems, yet his henchman, Mr. Hutch, may have a different trick up his sleeve. Meanwhile, the trick up April''s sleeve is less successful, positioning Terry to weather a wintry storm with the delightful Fob Cobb and the prune-faced Ilse Grosse-Nach. It''s like getting both candy and a lump of coal in one''s Christmas stocking! ufeff This tabloid-sized Volume 11 containing the 1945 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

"The comic that set the standard for exotic danger, adventure, romance, and femme fatales." -- Comics Beat "The great strip of World War II. The Casablanca of comics." -- Tom De Haven The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 7, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! Embroiled in the guerilla struggle against the invader, Terry meets "Madame Lustre" (AKA Burma!) and matches wits German officers Kiel and Wolff. When Terry eventually reunites with Dude Hennick and Raven Sherman, the stage is set for one of the greatest stories in comics history, with Death waiting to strike unexpectedly. Terry's road leads back to Hong Kong for a major reunion and a welcome-home kiss from April, but the delightful Miss Kane has secret troubles in the form of small-time grifter Sammy the Tapper. Everyone's fortunes are poised to change as Christmas arrives and America charges headlong into World War II! This tabloid-sized Volume 7 containing the 1941 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

"Caniff visualized his setup with a cinematic flair that remains thrilling because it is played straight." -- The New Yorker "Arguably the greatest of all adventure strips." -- The Washington Post The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 6, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! Invader soldiers scatter the occupants of Singh-Singh's outpost, forcing Pat, Blaze, and April to flee. They take refuge at Raven Sherman's orphanage just in time for an outbreak of cholera (this is refuge?). Returning to the city, Raven meets the mysterious Hu Shee, while Pat is reunited with Terry, Big Stoop, and Connie and crosses paths with old friend Dude Hennick. All the newcomers to the cast--together with the Dragon Lady, no less!--fall prey to the schemes of Chopstick Joe. A strike by invader forces separate Terry and Hu Shee from the others, setting up an encounter with the elusive Chinese guerrilla leader known only as the Blue Tiger! This tabloid-sized Volume 6 containing the 1940 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

oeCaniff's complete run on the strip is strongly recommended for all libraries. [He introduced] one colorful and memorable character after another-including heiress Normandie Drake, the slippery and beautiful Burma, and perhaps the series' finest creation, the haughty, dangerous, and complex Dragon Lady.' - Library Journal The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 5, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! In the heart of Indo-China Terry, Pat, Connie, and Big Stoop take the good (teenaged southern belle April Kane) with the bad (the twin villainy of Baron DePlexus and Sanjak). Later, back in Hong Kong, competition from young Deeth Crispin III forces Terry to take dancing lessons-from the Dragon Lady! When the dust settles the three kids are scooped up and held captive in an expansive net that also leaves Pat and the Dragon Lady in the clutches of Warlord Klang! Escape causes the heroes to scatter. Pat and April are snatched up by Cap'n Blaze and his daughter, Cheery-who really fails to live up to her name!-with the menace of Singh-Singh lurking in the wings'¦ This tabloid-sized Volume 5 containing the 1939 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terryand the Pirates: The Master Collection. Reproduced from Milton Caniff's personalset of color syndicate tabloid proofs that were unavailable for previous books,this series is the ultimate edition of Caniff's masterpiece. We present theSundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever beforebeen reprinted -- an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to passup. The complete strip will be collected in twelve deluxe 11" x 14"hardcover volumes, with a complementary thirteenth volume by Dean Mullaney andBruce Canwell that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the strip. Terryand the Pirates debuted in October 1934. For the next twelve years, Caniff wouldweave a spell of exotic adventure, sex appeal, and humor. The cartoonist set thestrip in exotic China, where historic events occurring in the region during the1930s provided the raw material from which he blended fantasy and reality tocreate an extraordinary graphic narrative. The series introduces young TerryLee, his adult pal Pat Ryan, their sidekick Connie, as well as an array ofunforgettable brigands such as Captains Judas and Blaze, and the two toughestwomen to ever sail on the China Seas: the alluring Burma and the inimitableDragon Lady. No cartoonist has so heavily influenced his medium as hasMilton Caniff, and no comic strip has had more imitators than Terry and thePirates. Terry and the Pirates was read by 31 million newspaper subscribersbetween 1934 and 1946. Vol. 1 collects all dailies and Sundays from thestrip's beginning on October 22, 1934 through the end of 1935 in a deluxe 192pp, 11" x 14", hardcover. "In the first few years of Terry and thePirates, Milton Caniff invented the visual and textual language that defines thevery vocabulary of all adventure and character-based comic art.... It is thegreatest adventure comic strip ever done--a genuine masterpiece of its artform." -- Howard V. Chaykin

Miss Lace is back and she's with Hermes Press! Milton Caniff's famous good girl, created just for servicemen during WW II, known to G.I. Joes everywhere as "Lace," is available to all her fans in a deluxe hardcover art book reprinting the entire run of the strip. Move over Rita Hayworth -- sultry, sassy Miss Lace and her daily adventures are given the royal treatment with a host of extras including a detailed intro by noted Caniff historian R.C. Harvey, complete with unused art, documentary materials, advertising art, and more.

The adventures of Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon continue with year 1956 of the landmark strip.

Featuring the stories which ran throughout the Ninth year of the adventure strip and into very early 1956. Featruring: "Twice Broken Heart" and "Scarlet Princess", and more. Featuring a new page layout which presents each detailed panel 20% larger than previous volumes of the groundbreaking strip.

Based on the popular comic strip "Terry and the Pirates," here is Milton Caniff''s 1942 novel, "April Kane and the Dragon Lady."

Steve Canyon flies again in these adventures from 1954. Features the stories Evangeline, Overreaching and In Formosa's Dire Straits.

Fourth volume of this classic Caniff strip. Steve Canyon 1950 collects strips from January 29 to October 7, and includes the stories Missionary, Mechanical Brain, Rallying Point and Serge Blu. Steve and his crew dodge corrupt government agents, are captured by music-loving Russian bandits and otherwise narrowly escape all sorts of trouble!

The swashbuckling adventures of the American dream flyboy begin in Steve Canyon 1947.

Collected interviews with the master cartoonist who created Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon