Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Volume 1

Collects all dailies and Sundays from the strip’s beginning in 1934 through the end of 1935.

Surprise! While they last, this is packaged with Vol 13 at no extra cost!! Never reproduced better, from Milton Caniff’s personal set of color syndicate proofs, unavailable for previous books. The Sundays are presented with unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted — an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up. Plus crystal clear dailies from the beginning, three per page. Vol 13 is all historical material and essays: rare photos, rare bonus artwork, hand-colored Sunday and much more bonus material. The adventure strip that laid the groundwork for generations to come. Caniff’s free wheeling world wide adventures would influence countless comic book and comic strip writers within a short time of Terry’s premiere. And his art style, a pioneering one that incorporated more shadow and suggestion, influenced artists from the beginning of the Golden Age of comics right into the 1950s. The artists who acknowledge his influence are countless, as famous as Alex Toth and Will Eisner, to young turks even into the 1960s and 1970s. Readers who grew up with Terry in their newspapers loved the strip from day one, and every reprint series since then has always done very well. Terry was merchandised in comic books, toys and games, card sets and countless other formats. When Caniff left the strip in 1946 over creative differences with the syndicate, he quickly established his new adventure hero and cast with Steve Canyon, and went on to more decades of adventure, this time on both land and in the air, as Steve was now a daring young pilot. “Even though I’ve read Terry ten times I will read it again because while Milton Caniff was a wonderful artist, he was a great storyteller. And that stamped me as a storyteller. From that moment on, I instinctively realized that storytelling was more important than drawing.” – John Romita, veteran Spider-Man artist. “The Crme de la Creme of Adventure Strips.” Volume 13 is meant as a supplement to the series, packed with wonderful extras that enhance your understanding of how Caniff made his masterpiece. It also includes shots of his models, specialty art he did for fans, special calendars and other Terry-related publications. It’s in a matching full-sized hardcover with dust jacket, 111 pages, written by Bruce Canwell and Dean Mullaney.