Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff in the tradition of Little Nemo in Slumberland in that there was a running storyline, unlike most modern comics. The daily strip began October 22, 1934, while the Sunday color strips started appearing in December 1934.
Caniff had a contract dispute with his syndicate and left in 1946. He went on to create Steve Canyon, another continuing, action-adventure strip which ran until 1988.
After Caniff left, George Wunder carried Terry and the Pirates for twenty-seven more years until 1973.
In 1953, Canada Dry offered a "premium giveaway" (freebie) with a case of its ginger ale — one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips printed by Harvey Comics. Later incarnations of Caniff's beloved work included a television series and a radio show.
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