Editing Terry and the Pirates (section)

== Publication history ==
The [[daily strip]] began October 22, 1934, and the [[Sunday strip|Sunday color pages]] began December 9, 1934.<ref name=Holtz>{{cite book |last1=Holtz |first1=Allan |title=American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide |date=2012 |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |location=Ann Arbor |isbn=9780472117567 |page=379}}</ref> Initially, the storylines of the daily strips and Sunday pages were different, but on August 26, 1936, they merged into a single storyline.

Although ''Terry and the Pirates'' had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time. Seeking creative control of his own work, Caniff left the strip in 1946, his last ''Terry'' strip being published on December 29. The following year, with the [[Field Syndicate]], he launched ''[[Steve Canyon]]'', an action-adventure strip of which Caniff retained ownership,<ref>[http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2010/04/obscurity-of-day-hit-or-miss.html Holtz, Allan. "Obscurity of the Day: Hit or Miss", April 13, 2010.]</ref>  which ran until shortly after his death in 1988.<ref name=toon/>

After Caniff's departure, ''Terry and the Pirates'' was assigned to [[Associated Press]] artist [[George Wunder]]. Wunder drew highly detailed panels, but some critics, notably [[Maurice Horn]], claimed that it was sometimes difficult to tell one character from another and that his work lacked Caniff's essential humor. Nevertheless, Wunder kept the strip going for another 27 years until its discontinuation on February 25, 1973, by which time Terry had reached the rank of colonel.{{citation needed|date = February 2012}}

===Reboot===
On March 26, 1995, [[Michael Uslan]] and the [[Brothers Hildebrandt]] produced an updated version of the strip which carried over no continuity with the original. The Dragon Lady is portrayed as a Vietnam War orphan. The Hildebrandt/Uslan team left the strip and was replaced on April 1, 1996, with the team of [[Dan Spiegle]] (art) and Jim Clark (writing). The strip ended on July 27, 1997.<ref name=toon/>