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...effort to spark the House War Stamp sales, which have been slumping of late, the War Service Committee is offering as rewards four spicy cartoons from the pen of Milton Caniff, author of the favorite student comic strip, "Terry and the Pirates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Caniff Cartoons will Go to Stamp Buyers | 12/1/1942 | See Source »

...Milton Caniff, the strip's creator, has in year's past been accustomed to send to the crew at Red Top an enlarged, unexpurgated, water-color version of one of his current heroines. Pinned on the wall of the central hall at the New London training quarters are such sultry females as the Dragon Lady, Hu Shee, Burma, Normandie, and April Kane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terry's Girls Won't Inspire Crew for Regatta This Year | 5/21/1942 | See Source »

Dude Hennick, dashing, black-a-vised flyer, will soon reappear in Milton Caniff's comic strip, Terry and the Pirates. When he disappeared, his real-life prototype, black-a-vised Frank L. ("Dude") Higgs, flying for the Chinese, had not been heard from. Dude wrote his sister that he was safe, "between Singapore and Rangoon," after helping fly Allied nationals from Hong Kong to Free China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dumb Friends | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...comic-strip may seem a bit too close to the odor of the breakfast table to be worth serious consideration. The reader who finds a vicarious thrill in pouncing upon "Terry and the Pirates" each morning is apt to overlook the genuine skill of the artist, Milt Caniff, in favor of a few well-turned curves on the body of the Dragon Lady. Each section of Canift's daily feature contains a carefully planned composition, both in regard to figure placement and value rendition. His work is characterized by the decisive manner in which he manipulates lights and darks...

Author: By Jack Wiiner, | Title: Collections & Critiques | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Last week, thirteen days before the Yale-Harvard race, Cartoonist Caniff received a wire. Even though The Dragon Lady had been to Yale, could Harvard have her picture for the boathouse? Cartoonist Caniff-who went to Ohio State-rushed it off (see cut). Yale had not been heard from at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Harvard and the Pirates | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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