Written and illustrated by Milton Caniff

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Written and illustrated by Milton Caniff

The saga continues in Terry and the Pirates Volume 3, reproduced from Milton Caniff’s personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs!

The Dragon Lady gets a bang out of her time with Papa Pyzon, but Terry, Pat, and Connie escape, only to have their first meeting with the lowest of the low, Tony Sandhurst—and is Pat in for a surprise when he meets Mrs. Sandhurst! Despite saving Sandhurst’s miserable life on multiple occasions, Tony connives to bring charges against Pat. Friends and a former lover help acquit him, even as Connie finds a new ally, the gentle giant, Big Stoop. Burma and Captain Judas both make return appearances, and the year ends with Terry, Burma, and Connie assisting ragtag Chinese peasants, unaware a new menace grows near.

The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, the ultimate edition of Caniff’s masterpiece. We present the Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted—an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

Vol. 3 collects all dailies and Sundays from 1937 in a deluxe 164 pp, 11″ x 14″, hardcover.

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Written and illustrated by Milton Caniff

Volume 2 of this landmark series—reproduced from Milton Caniff’s personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs—features the iconic 1936 daily and Sunday adventures, which continue their separate paths until the end of August when the stories—and cast of characters—are happily united once and for all.

In the Sunday Saga, Pat and Cap’n Blaze have it out across a checker board! Then things get really hot when the Dragon Lady and her men lay siege to Blaze’s encampment! A twist of fate puts Pat in charge of the Dragon Lady’s forces, but they’re mistaken for soldier-of-fortune pirates when the Chinese Army storms their position. It takes timely intervention from a surprising source to gain their freedom.

Meanwhile, in the Daily Saga, fists fly when Terry, Connie, and Pat are taken prisoner by the insidious Captain Judas—and sparks fly when the boys have their first meeting with beautiful, blonde Burma! The famous strips from March 16-21 steamed up the national audience and became one of the most imitated sequences in comic strip history. Later, cat claws are unsheathed against the backdrop of plague on the planation run by Stan and Wendy Wingate, Burma takes a dive, and with the daily and Sunday strips integrated into a unified storyline the boys once again confront the Dragon Lady before running afoul (accent on the foul!) of Papa Pyzon.

The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, the ultimate edition of Caniff’s masterpiece. We present the Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted—an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.Vol. 2 collects all dailies and Sundays from 1936 in a deluxe 164 pp, 11″ x 14″, hardcover.

Available in a Vol. 1 & 13 bundle for $120 through Cloverpress.us

ODYSSEY OF THE CHINA SEAS
By Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell

This exclusive 13th volume of Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection is only available through CloverPress.us. Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell tell the history of the comic strip and its impact on culture in the 30s, 40s and beyond! This volume is loaded with behind the scenes sketches, artwork, photos, including many that have never been seen before!

Single copies of Vol. 1 are sold out! Now only available in a Vol. 1 & 13 bundle for $120 through Cloverpress.us

Written and illustrated by Milton Caniff

The Library of American Comics and Clover Press are proud to publish Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection. Reproduced from Milton Caniff’s personal set of color syndicate tabloid proofs that were unavailable for previous books, this series is the ultimate edition of Caniff’s masterpiece. We present the Sundays in an unmatched color fidelity and larger than they have ever before been reprinted—an unparalleled upgrade that no Terry fan can afford to pass up.

The complete strip will be collected in twelve deluxe 11″ x 14″ hardcover volumes, with a complementary thirteenth volume by Dean Mullaney and Bruce Canwell that tells the behind-the-scenes story of the strip.

Terry and the Pirates debuted in October 1934. For the next twelve years, Caniff would weave a spell of exotic adventure, sex appeal, and humor. The cartoonist set the strip in exotic China, where historic events occurring in the region during the 1930s provided the raw material from which he blended fantasy and reality to create an extraordinary graphic narrative. The series introduces young Terry Lee, his adult pal Pat Ryan, their sidekick Connie, as well as an array of unforgettable brigands such as Captains Judas and Blaze, and the two toughest women to ever sail on the China Seas: the alluring Burma and the inimitable Dragon Lady.

No cartoonist has so heavily influenced his medium as has Milton Caniff, and no comic strip has had more imitators than Terry and the Pirates. Terry and the Pirates was read by 31 million newspaper subscribers between 1934 and 1946. Vol. 1 collects all dailies and Sundays from the strip’s beginning on October 22, 1934 through the end of 1935 in a deluxe 192 pp, 11″ x 14″, hardcover.

Written and illustrated by Lynn Johnston

The whole family is coming and going in Volume Seven of For Better or For Worse: The Complete Library! Grandpa Jim moves into the Patterson home, while Elizabeth moves in with her boyfriend! Michael and Weed move to Toronto, but then Michael moves again when he and Deanna get married! Plus, the Pattersons step out of their comfort zones when Elly buys a bookstore, Elizabeth starts a teaching job, April forms a garage band, and Michael and Deanna expect their first child! More laughs, tears, heartache and smiles from Lynn Johnston as she takes her strip into the 21st Century! Included are every comic strip from January 2, 2000 to May 27, 2003.

Written and illustrated by Lynn Johnston

Romance is in the air as Michael starts dating a girl he hasn’t seen since childhood. Something tells him that she is “the one,” but only if he can first make it through the stress of attending university! The trials of school affect his younger siblings, as Elizabeth struggles to find her identity in the halls of high school and April begins kindergarten! Meanwhile, Elly has to deal with the loss of a loved one, and John comes to peace with hitting the big 5-0. And if that isn’t enough, Gordon and Tracey have a baby, Weed and Mike go on a world tour, and Lawrence meets his father for the first time! Lynn Johnston closes out the ’90s with pathos, affection, and of course, laughter! Includes every comic strip from September 1, 1996 through the end of 1999.

Written and illustrated by Chester Gould

This is it!

After 46-years-two months-and-twenty-one-days writing and drawing Dick Tracy Chester Gould retired at the age of 77. In these historic final strips, Gould pits his dynamic detective against the latest in a long line of grotesque villains—Pucker Puss, the hitman who literally spits death at his opponents. Tracy, meanwhile, takes his law and order campaign to television, while his past catches up to him when a criminal he helped convict twenty years ago puts the detective on his “to kill” list. To round out this volume, the squad room is kept busy with two members of B.O. Plenty’s extended family who are anything but law-abiding—Perfume Plenty and her larcenous cousin Dade. All this and more in the ultimate volume of Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, collecting strips from March 15, 1976 to December 25, 1977.