Terry and the Pirates, Vol. 3 1936-1937 (Flying Buttress Classics Library)

by Milton Caniff

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918348080
• ISBN13: 9780918348081
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Contains the classic October Sunday Corkin lecture

Volume 18 of the Flying Buttress classics library is the May 1943 - October 1943 continuity, containing the famous October 17 Sunday episode in which Corkin delivers the Congressionally-recognized "Flight Officer" speech. Like other Sunday pages in the volume it is reproduced in black and white. While Terry was training with Flip Corkin in the previous episode Corkin's galpal, army nurse Taffy Tucker, survived a near-fatal dose of morphine but was left for dead. Found by Pat Ryan , Connie, Big Stoop and Texan marine Joss Goode, amnesiac Taffy is taken to a USN base where she falls afoul of Japanese spies. Meanwhile Terry's pilot training is continuing, despite distractions including mysteriously familiar French Air Force pilot Capitaine Midi and the beautiful Grett Murmer, stewardess for the Chinese national airline. Terry gets his wings and a down-to-earth lecture on responsibility from Flip Corkin just before the Japanese attack the airbase.

Great, but doesn't have the famous Corkin speech

Although marked "1943," volume 17 of the Flying Buttress classics library is the November 1942 - May 1943 continuity. Collectors beware! This sequence does NOT contain the famous October 17 Sunday episode in which Corkin delivers the Congressionally-recognized "Flight Officer" speech, which is to be found in the next album, "Taffy at War" (volume 18). Brought to a secret Japanese airbase by beautiful Axis spy Rouge in the previous episode, Terry Lee now aids U.S. paratroopers as they assault the base. Meanwhile USAAF pilot Corkin, supporting the raid, is shot down and must manage to survive the wiles of BOTH Rouge and a downed Japanese pilot. Eventually returning to base he is reunited with his galpal, army nurse Taffy Tucker. Terry's spying for the Kuomintang government has been more or less successful so he is rewarded with a commission as an air force cadet. Flip Corkin takes him under his wing but meanwhile Taffy is kidnapped by Rouge who gives her a near-fatal dose of morphine. Left for dead, her mindless body is found by Connie and Big Stoop, who bring her to Pat Ryan and Texan Joss Goode, USMC. Excellent drama-adventure from "The Rembrandt of the comic strip."