Terry And The Pirates: Meet Burma
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the ink-stained pages of 1936 America emerges one of the most dazzling femmes fatales in comic strip history — Burma, the cunning nightclub singer whose arrival in Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates electrified a generation of newspaper readers. This collection chronicles the classic adventure strips featuring Burma's unforgettable debut, presenting Caniff's masterful black-and-white artwork alongside the razor-sharp storytelling that made the strip a cultural institution. Set against the exotic, danger-laden backdrop of Asia, the narrative plunges young Terry Lee and the roguish Pat Ryan into high-seas intrigue, treachery, and the irresistible orbit of Burma herself. Caniff, often hailed as the Rembrandt of the comic strip, wielded his brush with a cinematic authority that revolutionised sequential art, borrowing visual grammar from Hollywood film noir to create panels of breathtaking shadow and drama. Published by Nostalgia Press with editorial design by Bill Chadbourne and under the stewardship of publisher Woody Gelman, this volume stands as a vital archival tribute to a landmark era in American popular culture. For admirers of classic illustration, golden-age adventure, and the origins of the graphic narrative form, Terry and the Pirates: Meet Burma is an indispensable window into the strip that changed everything — and the woman who stole the show.
Author: Milton Caniff
Format: Paperback
Published: 1976, Nostalgia Press, Inc.
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
From the ink-stained pages of 1936 America emerges one of the most dazzling femmes fatales in comic strip history — Burma, the cunning nightclub singer whose arrival in Milton Caniff's Terry and the Pirates electrified a generation of newspaper readers. This collection chronicles the classic adventure strips featuring Burma's unforgettable debut, presenting Caniff's masterful black-and-white artwork alongside the razor-sharp storytelling that made the strip a cultural institution. Set against the exotic, danger-laden backdrop of Asia, the narrative plunges young Terry Lee and the roguish Pat Ryan into high-seas intrigue, treachery, and the irresistible orbit of Burma herself. Caniff, often hailed as the Rembrandt of the comic strip, wielded his brush with a cinematic authority that revolutionised sequential art, borrowing visual grammar from Hollywood film noir to create panels of breathtaking shadow and drama. Published by Nostalgia Press with editorial design by Bill Chadbourne and under the stewardship of publisher Woody Gelman, this volume stands as a vital archival tribute to a landmark era in American popular culture. For admirers of classic illustration, golden-age adventure, and the origins of the graphic narrative form, Terry and the Pirates: Meet Burma is an indispensable window into the strip that changed everything — and the woman who stole the show.