TERRY AND THE PIRATES The Master Collection Volume 2

Sparks fly when Terry, Pat and Connie have their first meeting with the beautiful blonde Burma.  Then things get really hot when the Dragon Lady and her men lay siege to Blaze's encampment! A twist of fate puts Pat in charge of the Dragon Lady's forces, but they're mistaken for soldier-of-fortune pirates when the Chinese Army storms their position. Another entire year of both Sunday and Daily strips, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs. The two continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories -- and cast of characters -- are happily united once and for all. Meanwhile, in the Daily Saga, fists fly when Terry, Connie, and Pat are taken prisoner by the insidious Captain Judas! The famous Burma strips from March 16-21 steamed up the national audience and became one of the most imitated sequences in comic strip history. Later, cat claws are unsheathed against the backdrop of plague on the plantation run by Stan and Wendy Wingate, Burma takes a dive, and with the daily and Sunday strips integrated into a unified story line the boys once again confront the Dragon Lady before running afoul (accent on the foul!) of Papa Pyzon. The Library of American Comics and Clover Press together publish Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, the ultimate edition of Caniff's masterpiece. The Sundays are presented 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. Terry has been collected several times previously, but never as well and uniformly as this. Along with Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, this is perhaps the most beloved of all adventure strips of the 1940s. And Caniff's storytelling technique as well as his artwork would influence the current comic book artists as well as the next generation from the 1930s to the 1950s. This is the Holy Grail of adventure strips. "Caniff's Terry and the Pirates...introduced a cinematic storytelling technique to the comics page, so early in the sound era that filmmakers like Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock told him they cribbed ideas from him for camera set-ups." - Los Angeles Times