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COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC (2025)

"Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing will publish a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip, Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages will be reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume One contains more than 800 consecutive strips, from the series' beginning in October 1934 through the end of 1936."

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COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 06 1945-1946 (O/A)

Vol. 6

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 06 1945-1946 (O/A)

Release: April 13, 2011

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 05 1943-1944 (O/A)

Vol. 5

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 05 1943-1944 (O/A)

Release: April 20, 2011

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 04 1941-1942 (O/A) (C: 0

Vol. 4

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 04 1941-1942 (O/A) (C: 0

Release: April 13, 2011

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 03 1939-1940 (O/A)

Vol. 3

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 03 1939-1940 (O/A)

Release: April 20, 2011

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 02 1937-1938 (O/A)

Vol. 2

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 02 1937-1938 (O/A)

Release: April 13, 2011

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 01 1934-1936 (MAY073541)

Vol. 1

CA$67.49

COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 01 1934-1936 (MAY073541)

Release: December 21, 2011

Reading Order

  1. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 01 1934-1936 (MAY073541)

    "Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing will publish a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip, Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages will be reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume One contains more than 800 consecutive strips, from the series' beginning in October 1934 through the end of 1936."

  2. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 02 1937-1938 (O/A)

    "Continuing to celebrate the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW is publishing the second volume of a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip 'Terry and the Pirates.' The Sunday pages will be reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume Two contains more than 800 consecutive strips from the classic late-'30s run."

  3. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 03 1939-1940 (O/A)

    "April Kane has come to China and Terry Lee's life will never be the same! Milton Caniff's newspaper classic shifts into high gear with stories featuring the villainous Sanjak, the outrageous Singh-Singh and the mysterious Hu Shee. This volume also features the first appearance of the pivotal character Raven Sherman. Containing more than 100 lovingly-restored color Sunday pages and over 700 total comic strips, The Complete Terry And The Pirates provides nonstop adventure, comedy and romance, as IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics showcases the incredible work of Milton Caniff, forever known as The Rembrandt of American Comics."

  4. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 04 1941-1942 (O/A) (C: 0

    "America's premiere adventure comic strip thunders to its pre-War crescendo in an October, 1941 storyline so powerful, creator Milton Caniff was forced to take to the radio airwaves to explain why he chose to shock the nation with the death of a major character. In the 1942 strips, the World War drives Terry Lee to join the military, where he meets nurse Taffy Tucker and Army flight instructor Flip Corkin, then gets into plenty of trouble investigating a spy ring! And then there's the women-the strong, beautiful and independent Caniff women. . . . IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics has collected over 700 newspaper strips, including more than 100 Sunday pages restored to their original luster, in this pivotal volume in the Terry and the Pirates saga. With a biographical essay by Bruce Canwell and an introduction by Jerry Robinson. The fourth in a six-volume series edited by Dean Mullaney. 'The greatest adventure comic strip ever done-a genuine masterpiece.' -Howard Chaykin"

  5. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 05 1943-1944 (O/A)

    "IDW Publishing's Library of American Comics has collected over 700 newspaper strips, including more than 100 Sunday pages restored to their original luster in this pivotal volume in the Terry and the Pirates saga. 'If the 'Greatest Generation' had a cartoonist-in-chief, Milton Caniff was it,' says Newsweek. Master storyteller Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates brings 1943-44's battles in the Pacific to life as Flight Officer Terry Lee earns his wings in a Sunday page so powerful, it was entered into the Congressional Record! In this fifth volume of The Complete Terry and the Pirates, old friends and foes cross paths with such major new characters as Terry's comrades-in-arms, Snake Tumblin and the inimitable Hotshot Charlie. There are new romantic interests Willow Belinda, Jane Allen, and Jane McGillicudy-and neither Madame Shoo-Shoo nor Captain Midi are exactly who they seem . . . The fifth in a six-volume series edited by Dean Mullaney. With a biographical essay by Bruce Canwell and an introduction by Jeet Heer."

  6. COMPLETE TERRY & THE PIRATES HC VOL 06 1945-1946 (O/A)

    "In the final volume of the Eisner Award-winning series The Complete Terry and The Pirates, reprinting every strip from the years 1945 and 1946, World War II comes to an end, and then Milton Caniff says goodbye to his greatest creation. Caniff gives curtain calls to many of his vivid, colorful characters. Readers will be sometimes delighted, sometimes shocked by their last visits with the Dragon Lady, Pat Ryan, Burma, Hu Shee, Snake Tumblin, Papa Pyzon, Tony Sandhurst, Baron de Plexus, Nastalthia Smythe-Heatherstone, Jane Allen, Deeth Crispin, and April Kane. Edited and designed by Dean Mullaney. "

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