TERRY AND THE PIRATES Adapted From the Famous 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 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 daily strip began October 22, 1934, and the Sunday color pages began December 9, 1934. Initially, the story lines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different, but on August 26, 1936, they merged into a single story line. Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time. Seeking creative control of his own work, Caniff left the strip in 1946, his last Terry strip being published on December 29. The strip was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers between 1934 and 1946. In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Book has several creases on the cover. Sunning on spine.