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Milton Caniff - Dragon Lady Illustration Original Art (1939)
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“Caniff was well known to have prints made of Dragon Lady which he would hand-color and give out to fans requesting artwork, but this stunning piece is all hand-drawn, and was created for a very special person -- Orson Welles! The mat includes an inscription from Caniff, "For Orson Welles -- who knows how to savor melancholy," and is signed and dated, "New York, October 1939." This was one year after the famous Mercury Theater "War of the Worlds" radio program that made Welles a star. Obviously, Mr. Caniff was a fan!”
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Milton Caniff’s Dragon Lady. Ink on paper, digital colour & aging effects.
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Terry and the Pirates (06-01-1939)
by Milton Caniff
Source: Chris K. (comicartfans)
Caniff, Milton - Terry & the Pirates, 6-1-1939, in Chris K.'s TERRY & THE PIRATES Comic Art Gallery Room (comicartfans.com)
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Milton Caniff - Terry and the Pirates Sunday 04/01/1945
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Terry And The Pirates
Art by Milton Caniff
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Milton Caniff
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Original Terry and the Pirates daily strip by George Wunder, October 31, 1956. 60 years ago!
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BHOC: MARVEL TALES #98
Now this was a comic book that I had been eagerly anticipating for several months once I had realized that its reprinting was approaching in the sequence. By 1978, the demise of Gwen Stacy was established canon–even the original Clone storyline was finished by then–but the story of her death was still referenced and talked about like an acknowledged classic. I had really liked Gwen in the other…
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#Amazing Spider-Man#Gerry Conway#Gil Kane#Green Goblin#Gwen Stacy#John Romita#Marvel#Marvel Tales#Milton Caniff#Raven Sherman#Stan Lee#Terry and the Pirates
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July 28, 1941. Launched in October 1934, TERRY AND THE PIRATES eventually emerged as one of the finest newspaper adventure strips of its era, making cartoonist Milton Caniff a celebrity and one of the most-imitated artists in the comics field, along with Alex Raymond. The strip followed the adventures of a white American boy named Terry Lee on the loose in China along with his notional guardian, two-fisted Irish adventurer Pat Ryan. Unlike many comics characters, Terry was not immune to aging; a young boy a the start of the strip, he's a teenager here, and eventually plateaued in his mid-20s. The woman gently deflecting his awkward pass in this strip is Burma, a brassy American nightclub singer with a checkered past — she was wanted by the British for piracy, a hanging offense — and a heart of gold beneath her cynical exterior.
The plots and subject matter of TERRY AND THE PIRATES aren't always palatable today, especially the early continuities, which are full of Exotic Orient hokum and offensive Chinese caricatures, something that diminished but never entirely went away even in later years.
However, Caniff's craft — his visual storytelling, his characterization, his use of light and shadow, his ability to craft complex and entertaining stories full of snappy dialogue and memorable characters — was of the highest caliber. Jack Kirby called Caniff "my art school," and a whole raft of comic book artists who began their careers in the 1940s (including Carmine Infantino, Joe Kubert, and Alex Toth, to name just a few) started off trying to ape Caniff. He represented the big time: In talent, in success, in acclaim, he was what they all wanted to be.
Caniff left TERRY at the end of 1946 because while he was earning a healthy salary, the syndicate owned the strip, so he wasn't getting a piece of the action on adaptations, merchandising, and tie-ins, which was substantial. On January 13, 1947, he launched a new strip, STEVE CANYON, which was all his; it continued until shortly after his death in 1988. After Caniff departed, the syndicate assigned TERRY AND THE PIRATES to George Wunder, who kept it going until 1973.
#comics#newspaper comics#comic strips#terry and the pirates#milton caniff#terry lee#milt caniff's burma#terry and the pirates is also the origin of the dragon lady#who deserves her own post
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Milton Caniff “Terry and the Pirates” Custom Drawing Original Art (1934) Source
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Milton Caniff’s Dragon Lady, inked sketch.
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Terry and the Pirates (1944)
by Milton Caniff
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Milton Caniff - Terry and the Pirates Sunday 02/04/1940
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Original Art - Terry And The Pirates Sunday Comic Strip (June16th1968)
Art by George Wunder
News Syndicate Co. Inc.
#Comics#Comic Strips#Terry And The Pirates#George Wunder#Art#Original Art#Vintage#News Syndicate Co Inc#Film#Television#TV#Radio#OTR#Old Time Radio#1968#1960s#60s
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Terry and the Pirates (1940) serial poster
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#terry and the pirates#1940#milton caniff#adventure#film serial#explorers#adventurers#exotic#yellow peril#dragon lady
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The Fijian Pre-Production of Terry and the Pirates
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