Complete Terry And The Pirates, Vol.
6: 1945-1946 (Complete Terry & the
Pirates) by Milton Caniff by Milton
Caniff
A Triumphant Ending! (And Some Advice)
In the final volume of The Complete Terry and The Pirates, reprinting every
strip from the years 1945 and 1946, World War II comes to an end, and
then Milton Caniff says goodbye to his greatest creation. Readers will be
sometimes delighted, sometimes shocked by their last visits with the
Dragon Lady, Pat Ryan, Burma, Hu Shee, Snake Tumblin, Papa Pyzon,
Tony Sandhurst, Baron de Plexus, Nastalthia Smythe-Heatherstone, Jane
Allen, Deeth Crispin, and April Kane.
Personal Review: Complete Terry And The Pirates, Vol. 6:
1945-1946 (Complete Terry & the Pirates) by Milton Caniff by
Milton Caniff
This volume, the 6th and last, cover the last 2 years of Caniff's work on this
strip. After this he would go on to do Steve Canyon, leaving T&P to be
done by George Wunder.

We get our last visit with several characters done by Caniff. Terry is the
main focus of the strip now. Pat Ryan is seen a bit at the begining before
he leaves. We once again see Connie or Big Stoop, but without Ryan.
We twice see the Dragon Lady, and in her second apperance, she seems
to be going after Terry like she used to go after Ryan. We also get to see
Hu Shee at the begining, and a final, brief appearance of Burma. We see
a few other characters, good and bad, from previous years.
April Kane returns before Terry moves on.
The ending of the war is handled in the first third or so. Because of the
delay between creating the strip and when its published, Terry & friends
are stuck on an island in the Pacific and think the war is still going on.
With little fanfar we learn its over, and we move to the post-war
Occupation. Terry returns to China and further adventures.
One does wonder what happens with these characters under Wunder.
The fate of several characters are left up in the air. Others have asked for
a reprint of those years, tho I doubt we will see them.
Its also interesting how much the final year is to Steve Canyon. While
Terry is a undercover agent of the Air Force, he is working for a small
airfreight service in China and getting into adventures. This is very similiar
to how Steve Canyon started out before Canyon re-uped into the Air
Force. I assume Terry also probably rejoined the air force as things
changed in China, but don't know, having never read any of the post-Caniff
Terry.
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