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Photo, Print, Drawing Terry and the Pirates. "Boy what a smeller-cellar this dump is!" / by Milton Caniff.

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Title

  • Terry and the Pirates. "Boy what a smeller-cellar this dump is!" / by Milton Caniff.

Summary

  • Eleven-panel comic strip shows Terry as an Army Air Force officer and a friend visiting a nightclub in China where a dancer named Rouge is scheduled to perform. The friend makes an ill-advised mention of a bombing mission over Canton that is picked up by the waiter. Later Terry is shown in the apartment where Rouge is giving him a bed. Terry muses that as a spy, he is not effective. When Rouge returns, and the lights dim, Terry realizes that the people in the building must be operating a radio transmitter. Terry and the Pirates was an adventure strip begun in 1934, featuring Terry, a teenage boy, and his older friends in China. Terry matured as the strip continued, and he served in the military during World War II.

Names

  • Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988, artist

Created / Published

  • 1942 Sept. 27 [published date]

Headings

  • -  World War, 1939-1945--Covert operations--American--China--1940-1950

Format Headings

  • Comics--American--1940-1950.
  • Ink drawings--American--1940-1950.

Genre

  • Comics--American--1940-1950
  • Ink drawings--American--1940-1950

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Caption label from exhibit Cartoon America: Milton Caniff, a.k.a. the "Rembrandt of the Comic Strip," transformed the comic adventure strip in the 1940s through his ground-breaking creations Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. This eleven-panel comic strip contains key elements of his exemplary work fascinating characters; gripping story lines dramatically realized; and convincingly rendered exotic locales. The star, Air Force officer Terry Lee, and a friend visit a nightclub where Rouge, a striking dancer, performs. Later, Terry settles in the apartment where Rouge has given him a bed, when the lights dim, he realizes that a radio transmitter is being operated in the building.
  • -  Copyright 1942 by News Syndicate Co., Inc.
  • -  Inscribed: For Art Wood - long memory and patience - regards- Milton Caniff, April '69.
  • -  Forms part of: Art Wood Collection of Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress).
  • -  Exhibited: Cartoon America: Highlights from the Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature, Library of Congress, 2006-2007.
  • -  Unprocessed in WOOD/Comicstrips/Caniff.92
  • -  Source: Encyclopedia of American comics, p. 359 ljr

Medium

  • 1 drawing : ink and opaque white over graphite underdrawing, with paste-ons ; 71.5 (two sheets combined) x 54.2 cm (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 06582 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.06582
  • cph 3g12590 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g12590

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2004676892

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-06582 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-12590 (color film copy transparency)

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-06582 (digital file from original drawing) LC-USZC4-12590 (color film copy transparency)
  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2001:055-4 [item] [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Caniff, Milton Arthur, Artist. Terry and the Pirates. "Boy what a smeller-cellar this dump is!" / by Milton Caniff. China, 1942. [Sept. 27 published date] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004676892/.

APA citation style:

Caniff, M. A. (1942) Terry and the Pirates. "Boy what a smeller-cellar this dump is!" / by Milton Caniff. China, 1942. [Sept. 27 published date] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2004676892/.

MLA citation style:

Caniff, Milton Arthur, Artist. Terry and the Pirates. "Boy what a smeller-cellar this dump is!" / by Milton Caniff. [Sept. 27 published date] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2004676892/>.