Terry and the Pirates

Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)

Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. Captain Joseph Patterson, editor for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate, had admired Caniff’s work on the children's adventure strip Dickie Dare and hired him to create the new adventure strip,...

is an American comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 that originally ran from October 22, 1934 until February 25, 1973. The daily and Sunday strips ran separate storylines until August 25, 1936. A revival series (re-imagining the strip and setting it in the current day) ran from March 26, 1995 until July 27, 1997.

Milton Caniff

Milton Caniff

Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.-Biography:...

Daily-Only Stories

• 001 - “The Lost Gold Mine” (10/22/34 to 1/25/35)
• 002 - “On a Mystery Cruise” (1/26/35 to 6/8/35)
• 003 - “Thugs and Lovers” (6/10/35 to 12/19/35)
• 004 - “St. Louis Blues on the Road to Mandalay” (12/20/35 to 4/23/36)
• 005 - “A Jewel of a Woman” (4/24/36 to 8/24/36)

Sunday-Only Stories

• 006 - “Enter the Dragon Lady
  Dragon Lady (character)
  The Dragon Lady, also known as Madam Deal, was a well-known character in the popular U.S. comic strip Terry and the Pirates, created by Milton Caniff, and in the movie serial, comic books, and TV series based on the comic strip. Her real name is Lai Choi San.The Dragon Lady first appeared in 1934...
  
  ” (12/9/34 to 3/10/35)
• 007 - “The Skull and the Dragon” (3/17/35 to 9/1/35)
• 008 - “Blaze and the Dragon” (9/8/35 to 1/26/36)
• 009 - “In Command” (2/2/36 to 8/23/36)

Combined Stories

• 010 - “Return of the Dragon Lady” (8/25/36 to 10/14/36)
• 011 - “Papa Pyzon” 10/15/36 to 2/4/37)
• 012 - “Sandhurst” (2/5/37 to 6/3/37)
• 013 - “On Trial” (6/4/37 to 9/9/37)
• 014 - “Burma's Return” (9/10/37 to 10/29/37)
• 015 - “Underwater Piracy” (10/30/37 to 12/19/37)
• 016 - “The Bandit General of the Guerilla War” (12/20/37 to 2/15/38)
• 017 - “The Duel” (2/16/38 to 4/3/38)
• 018 - “On the Road” (4/4/38 to 5/5/38)
• 019 - “War Profiteer” (5/6/38 to 7/10/38)
• 020 - “Papa Bountiful” (7/11/38 to 11/1/38)
• 021 - “In the Money” (11/2/38 to 12/8/38)
• 022 - “Shanghaied in Indo China” (12/9/38 to 2/26/39)
• 023 - “The Rescue of April Kane” (2/27/39 to 4/23/39)
• 024 - “The Dance” (4/24/39 to 7/2/39)
• 025 - “With the Guerillas” 7/3/39 to 9/9/39)
• 026 - “Siege” (9/10/39 to 11/4/39)
• 027 - “Wife Dealing and Gun Running” (11/5/39 to 3/9/40)
• 028 - “Babysitting” (3/10/40 to 6/7/40)
• 029 - “Prison Break” (6/8/40 to 9/1/40)
• 030 - “Ransom” (9/2/40 to 11/24/40)
• 031 - “Blue Tiger” (11/25/40 to 2/4/41)
• 032 - “Decoy” (2/5/41 to 4/27/41)
• 033 - “The Taste of Freedom” (4/28/41 to 6/22/41)
• 034 - “Raven Nevermore” (6/23/41 to 10/20/41)
• 035 - “Blackmail” (10/21/41 to 1/23/42)
• 036 - “Refugees” (1/34/42 to 3/29/42)
• 037 - “Normandie Meets the Dragon Lady” (3/30/42 to 6/12/42)
• 038 - “With the Air Corps” (6/13/42 to 8/21/42)
• 039 - “Terry the Spy” (8/22/42 to 12/19/42)
• 040 - “Flip Solo” (12/20/42 to 2/19/43)
• 041 - “Terry Joins Up” (2/20/43 to 3/21/43)
• 042 - “Escape” (3/22/43 to 5/16/43)
• 043 - “Amnesia” (5/17/43 to 8/29/43)
• 044 - “On the Wing” (8/30/43 to 10/29/43)
• 045 - “Jungle Rescue” (10/30/43 to 12/17/43)
• 046 - “The Fair Sex Revealed” (12/18/43 to 2/4/44)
• 047 - “Madame Shoo-Shoo” (2/5/44 to 5/19/44)
• 048 - “Jungle Monkeyshines” (5/20/44 to 7/24/44)
• 049 - “Honor Among Correspondents” (7/25/44 to 10/24/44)
• 050 - “Willow Kidnapped” (10/25/44 to 12/25/44)
• 051 - “The Dragon and the Snake” (12/26/44 to 4/3/45)
• 052 - “Back Among the Pirates” (4/4/45 to 5/18/45)
• 053 - “Marines to the Rescue” (5/19/45 to 9/2/45)
• 054 - “Wedding Bells” (9/3/45 to 11/5/45)
• 055 - “Forced Landing” (11/6/45 to 12/28/45)
• 056 - “Still the Traitor” (12/29/45 to 3/12/46)
• 057 - “Mustering the Post-War Crew” (3/13/46 to 5/17/46)
• 058 - “Unrequited Revenge” (5/18/46 to 7/16/46)
• 059 - “Nasty Trouble” (7/17/46 to 10/8/46)
• 060 - “Fanning Old Flames” (10/9/46 to 12/29/46)

George Wunder

George Wunder

George S. Wunder was a cartoonist best known for his 26 years illustrating the Terry and the Pirates comic strip....

• 061 - “Trouble in Tibet” (12/30/46 to 3/15/47)
• 062 - “Oil Hostage Crisis” (3/16/47 to 9/18/47)
• 063 - “Gun Running Frame-Up” (9/19/47 (to 2/5/48)
• 064 - “Ancient Greed” (2/6/48 to 8/30/48)
• 065 - “The Kidnapping of Chum Fun” (8/31/48 to 1/1/49)
• 066 - “The Bossy Blonde Baroness” (1/2/49 to 3/28/49)
• 067 - “Dame in Distress” (3/29/49 to 7/1/49)
• 068 - “Burgundy and the Bey” (7/2/49 to 9/18/49)
• 069 - “The Prisoner-Smuggling Underground” (9/19/49 to 1/3/50)
• 070 - “Jaws of Matrimony” (1/4/50 to 4/12/50)
• 071 - “The Gold Convoy” (4/13/50 to 7/3/50)
• 072 - “Texas Hospitality” (7/4/50 to 9/24/50)
• 073 - “The Rescue of Janus Janes” (9/25/50 to 1/11/51)
• 074 - “Re-enlisted” (1/12/51 to 2/28/51)
• 075 - “Hold-Out Behind Enemy Lines” (3/1/51 to 4/28/51)
• 076 - “All’s Fair in Love and War” (4/29/51 to 7/3/51)
• 077 - “The Lin Report” (7/4/51 to 10/14/51)
• 078 - “Forced Combat” (10/15/51 to 12/30/51)
• 079 - “Black Market Blood” (12/21/51 to 4/24/52)
• 080 - “Kilocycle Kitty” (4/25/52 to 8/16/52)
• 081 - “Mistaken Identity” (8/17/52 to 11/29/52)
• 082 - “AWOL Agatha” (11/30/52 to 3/29/53)
• 083 - “Mosquito Outfit” (3/30/53 to 9/3/53)
• 084 - “Ransom” (9/4/53 to 12/8/53)
• 085 - “Behind the Bamboo Curtain” (12/9/53 to 3/28/54)
• 086 - “Something Blue” (3/29/54 to 5/28/54)
• 087 - “The General’s Aide” (5/29/54 to 11/6/54)
• 088 - “The Defector” (11/7/54 to 3/28/55)
• 089 - “Operation Twice Fortunate Dragon” (3/29/55 to 7/10/55)
• 090 - “Operation Fall Guy” (7/11/55 to 10/31/55)
• 091 - “The Tower Contract Memo” (11/1/55 to 2/12/56)
• 092 - “Terry’s Folly” (2/13/56 to 7/21/56)
• 093 - “The Secret Refueling System” (7/22/56 to 10/28/56)
• 094 - “Russian Guided Missile” (10/29/56 to 1/7/57)
• 095 - “Accused of Murder” (1/8/57 to 4/1/57)
• 096 - “Diplomatic Pressure” (4/2/57 to 7/7/57)
• 097 - “The Barracuda” (7/8/57 to 10/7/57)
• 098 - “The Red Deserter” (10/8/57 to 1/28/58)
• 099 - “The Sputnik in the Snow” (1/29/58 to 5/19/58)
• 100 - “The Anti-Lee Underground” (5/20/58 to 10/30/58)
• 101 - “Red Propaganda” (10/31/58 to 2/24/59)
• 102 - “The Mysterious Pryn Pasha” (2/25/59 to 7/6/59)
• 103 - “Escape to Freedom” (7/7/59 to 11/3/59)
• 104 - “The Scholar” (11/4/59 to 2/14/60)
• 105 - “Discoverer Deception” (2/15/60 to 6/5/60)
• 106 - “The Academy’s Best and Brightest” (6/6/60 to 9/14/60)
• 107 - “Revenge” (9/15/60 to 12/24/60)
• 108 - “The Dragon Lady Cadet Corps” (12/25/60 to 6/18/61)
• 109 - “Finding One’s Calling” (6/19/61 to 9/26/61)
• 110 - “Delphi Druid and the Russian Ballerina” (9/27/61 to 2/4/62)
• 111 - “The Date-Switching Wager” (2/5/62 to 4/4/62)
• 112 - “The Ghost of Morgan Le Fey” (4/5/62 to 6/11/62)
• 113 - “Raid on the Red Mining Compound” (6/12/62 to 10/21/62)
• 114 - “Red Ransom and Revenge” (10/22/62 to 2/17/63)
• 115 - “The Dragon Lady’s Antique Forgery Racket” (2/18/63 to 6/29/63)
• 116 - “Bedcheck Charlie” (6/30/63 to 10/13/63)
• 117 - “Space Hypnosis” (10/14/63 to 12/23/63)
• 118 - “The Traitor” (12/24/63 to 3/8/64)
• 119 - “Coup in Latin America” (3/9/64 to 6/1/64)
• 120 - “Siamese Sabotage” (6/2/64 to 9/3/64)
• 121 - “Intrigue in India” (9/4/64 to 12/17/64)
• 122 - “Hanoi Hannah and the Red Dragon Spirit” (12/18/64 to 3/22/65)
• 123 - “Near East Pipeline Plot” (3/23/65 to 6/28/65)
• 124 - “La Rubia, Queen of Matadors” (6/29/65 to 10/22/65)
• 125 - “The 88th Republic of China Freedom Army” (10/23/65 to 1/28/66)
• 126 - “Shock Treatment” (1/29/66 to 6/12/66)
• 127 - “Dewey Dawn’s Communist Clairvoyance” (6/13/66 to 9/5/66)
• 128 - “Our Hero” (9/6/66 to 1/22/67)
• 129 - “Nuclear Buzz-Bomb Threat” (1/23/67 to 5/17/67)
• 130 - “U.F.O. Hunting Expedition” (5/18/67 to 9/15/67)
• 131 - “Rescue Mission” (9/16/67 to 1/9/68)
• 132 - “Murder on Punter’s Pride” (1/10/68 to 5/6/68)
• 133 - “The Art of Politics” (5/7/68 to 9/8/68)
• 134 - “The Devil’s Players” (9/9/68 to 12/5/68)
• 135 - “Belisarius’ Pledge of Honor” (12/6/68 to 3/25/69)
• 136 - “Subversion in the Near East” (3/26/69 to 7/8/69)
• 137 - “Sins of the Brother” (7/9/69 to 10/12/69)
• 138 - “The Field Grey Ghost” (10/13/69 to 1/5/70)
• 139 - “Hijacked” (1/6/70 to 6/1/70)
• 140 - “Death and Desecration in the Desert” (6/2/70 to 9/18/70)
• 141 - “Power to the People” (9/19/70 to 11/2/70)
• 142 - “The Decoy” (11/3/70 to 12/27/70)
• 143 - “Harridge’s House of Horror” (12/28/70 to 2/10/71)
• 144 - “Coup D’Etat” (2/11/71 to 4/4/71)
• 145 - “Twelve Oar Bay” (4/5/71 to 5/15/71)
• 146 - “The Living Saint of Serendip” (5/16/71 to 6/19/71)
• 147 - “Theatrical Fraud” (6/20/71 to 7/24/71)
• 148 - “The Final Flight of the Mother Goose” (7/25/71 to 9/3/71)
• 149 - “Puppy Love” (9/4/71 to 10/30/71)
• 150 - “The Nation’s First Dictator” (10/31/71 to 12/13/71)
• 151 - “Congress of Imposters” (12/14/71 to 2/28/72)
• 152 - “Run For the Border” (2/29/72 to 5/21/72)
• 153 - “Private War” (5/22/72 to 7/24/72)
• 154 - “V.I.P. Under the Gun” (7/25/72 to 9/27/72)
• 155 - “Bad Trip Experiment” (9/28/72 to 12/24/72)
• 156 - “Contraband” (12/25/72 to 2/25/73)

Art: Greg and Tim Hildebrandt - Writing: Michael Uslan

Michael Uslan

Michael E. Uslan is the originator of the Batman movies and was the first instructor to teach "Comic Book Folklore" at an accredited university...

• R01 - “Enter the Dragon Lady” (3/26/95 to 5/4/95)
• R02 - “Papa Python” (5/5/95 to 6/18/95)
• R03 - “Pirated Plutonium” (6/19/95 to 9/24/95)
• R04 - “Satellite Pirates” (9/25/95 to 12/31/95)
• R05 - “The Trial of the Dragon Lady” (1/1/96 to 3/31/96)

Art: Dan Spiegle

Dan Spiegle

Dan Spiegle is an American comic book and cartoon artist and illustrator . He has had a long career in drawing comics based on movie and television characters, and has worked for companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics and Marvel Comics.-Life and career:In his second year of high school,...

- Writing: Jim Clark

• R06 - “A Fortune in Jade” (4/1/96 to 7/11/96)
• R07 - “Treasure Hunt” (7/12/96 to 11/18/96)
• R08 - “Justice” (11/19/96 to 1/10/97)
• R09 - “Search For the Missing Munitions” (1/11/97 to 4/25/97)
• R10 - “Nuclear Auction” (4/26/97 to 6/22/97)
• R11 - “The Corrupt Politician” (6/23/97 to 7/27/97)

Sources

This information was compiled by consulting all of the original strips published in newspapers between 1934 and 1997. The story titles for the Milton Caniff stories (stories 001 to 060) were taken from Carl Horak’s Terry and the Pirates Companion.