Terry And The Pirates: The Master Collection HC (2025)

“If the ‘Greatest Generation’ had a cartoonist-in-chief, Caniff was it. With the advent of World War II, Terry —originally a boy traveling in China…matured and enlisted in the Army Air Corps. Terry and the Pirates became the unofficially official comic strip of U.S. forces in the Pacific theater.” — NewsweekThe 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.

“Things really begin to happen in the early ’40s. Terry Lee grows up to be a Flight Officer in the Air Force and, played against the background of a World War, takes on considerable dimension. Now Caniff was in his element. Terry was no longer a mere comic strip. It was a war novel!” — Jim SterankoThe saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 11, reproduced from Milton Caniff's personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs! It’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! This tabloid-sized Volume 11 containing the 1945 dailies and Sundays is an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.