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Issue Details

Issue	#44
Published	May 1944
Cover Price	0.10 USD
Pages	52
Editing	?
Notes	Indicia title is "TERRY AND THE PIRATES, No. 44." No code number. Copyright 1938 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.

Cover Details

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Baron De Plexus; Slugger Dunn; Bellette [Weazel]
Genre	adventure
Notes	Cover is redrawn version of second panel of 1939.03.27 daily newspaper strip.

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "I have admired the courage and resourcefulness of both you men..."

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Connie; Big Stoop; Reginald Smythe-Heatherstone; Baron De Plexus; Belette [Weazel]
Synopsis	Connie and Big Stoop get a $5,000 reward from Mr. Smythe-Heatherstone and hire servants to do their work for Pat and Terry. Later Connie and Big Stoop get into an auto accident with a mean character named Baron De Plexus and Pat discovers that De Plexus's body guard is an old enemy.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. Sunday strips are part of the continuity, but are not reprinted.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.11.08-1938.11.12, 1938.11.14-1938.11.19, 1938.11.21-1938.11.26, 1938.11.28-1938.12.03

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "You fool! Your fingerprints are on that knife!"

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Connie; Big Stoop; Baron De Plexus; Bellette [Weazel]; Reginald Smythe-Heatherstone; Slugger Dunn
Synopsis	After a confrontation with Baron De Plexus and his bodyguard, Pat decides to leave Hong Kong and take Terry, Connie, and Big Stoop to see Smythe-Heatherstone. Pat is offered the job of investigating the disappearance of Dillon Kane, the manager of a plantation in French Indo-China that happens to be next to one owned by Baron De Plexus. On the way they make the acquaintance of one of De Plexus's men, an American safecracker named Slugger Dunn.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Sunday strips are part of the continuity but are not reprinted except for the first four panels of 1939.01.01.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1938.12.05-1938.12.10, 1938.12.12-1938.12.17, 1938.12.19-1938.12.24, 1938.12.26-1938.12.31, 1939.01.01 [Sunday, first 4 panels]; from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #81 [comic book adaptation]

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "Funny how we've stumbled on things in this Kane disappearance..."

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; April Kane; Madame Sud; Baron De Plexus; Bellette [Weazel]; Slugger Dunn
Synopsis	At the plantation, Pat and Terry meet April Kane, the young sister of Dillon Kane, who has disappeared. Terry sees April later and immediately becomes lovesick. Pat and Connie go into the jungle to search for clues and fall through a hidden trap door into a cave.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Several strips from original run are omitted.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939.01.01-1939.01.14, 1939,01.20-1939.01.21, 1939.01.23-1939.01.25

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "Is shoomike gleam of lights! Under door-place mebbe!"

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Connie; Dillon Kane; Baron De Plexus; Bellette [Weazel]; Slugger Dunn; April Kane; Madame Sud [Sanjak];
Synopsis	Pat and Connie find Dillon Kane being held captive in the cave. Baron De Plexus is perplexed about Pat's disappearance and is arranging to bring three warlords out of China by air, along with a fortune in gold. Terry gets a map that leads him and Big Stoop to the place the others are held captive and they are rescued. Madame Sud shows her real identity as Sanjak, an enemy of De Plexus, who has sent Pat and the others to De Plexis' airstrip.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Sundays are part of the continuity but are omitted.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1939.01.26-1939.01.28, 1939-01.30-1939.02.04, 1939.02.06-1939.02.11, 1939.02.13-1939.02.18, 1939.02.20, 1939.02.21; from Popular Comics (Dell, 1936 series) #83 [comic book adaptation]

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "Stoop, search them for extra weapons!"

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; Connie; Big Stoop; Bellette [Weazel]; Slugger Dunn; Baron De Plexus; Dillon Kane; April Kane; Sanjak
Synopsis	Sanjak shows up at De Plexus' airstrip with a hypnotized April. Sanjak shoots Dillon Kane and takes April along when she takes off in a plane full of gold. Terry and Pat follow in De Plexus' other plane. Back at the plantation, French colonial police arrive and De Plexus has Connie and Big Stoop arrested. De Plexus finds a clue to where Sanjak is taking April. Pat and Terry make a forced landing, but Sanjak eludes them.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Sundays are part of the continuity, but are omitted except for 1939.03.19, which includes panels 5, 6, 7, and 9 of the 11-panel Sunday.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) daily newspaper strips from 1939.02.22-1939.02.25, 1939.02.27-1939.03.04, 1939.03.06-1939.03.11, 1939.03.13-1939.03.18, 1939.03.19 [4 panels of Sunday]

8 page Terry and the Pirates story "So, eet ees well sterilized...now I place the point just below the lobe..."

Characters	Terry Lee, Pat Ryan; Baron De Plexus; Bellette [Weazel]; Slugger Dunn; Sanjak; April Kane
Synopsis	De Plexus and his thugs try to get information on Sanjak in Yankuk, but the populace, even the underworld, refuses to give them any information. De Plexus finally gets a lead about a recluse on a small island. Terry and Pat also arrive in Yankuk and find a dance hall girl who once was Sanjak's pupil, but now hates her. Both parties land on Sanjak's island at the same time. De Plexis and his thugs get the drop on Sanjak first, but the dance hall girl breaks away from Terry and Pat and causes a disruption. Sanjak escapes and starts setting off explosives all over the island.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Panels of 1939.03.22, 1939.03.23, and 1939.03.24 are mixed together. Sundays are part of continuity, but only 1939.03.27 is printed.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939.03.19 [1 panel of Sunday], 1939.03.20-1939.04.01, 1939.04.03-1939.04.08, 1939.04.10 [last two panels], 1939.04.11 [first three panels]; 1939.04.12 [first three panels]

3 page Terry and the Pirates story "You may have hurt my sweetheart, you dog!"

Characters	Terry Lee; Pat Ryan; April Kane; Belette [Weazel], Slugger Dunn; Connie; Big Stoop
Synopsis	The Weazel's girlfriend from the dance hall shoots Pat. Terry rescues April. Sanjak has rigged the island to blow up so Terry grabs Pat and along with April and Slugger Dunn, they start to swim to the mainland. The four are about to go under when a boat spots them and they are rescued by Connie and Big Stoop.
Genre	adventure
Script	Milton Caniff (signed)
Pencils	Milton Caniff (signed)
Inks	Milton Caniff (signed)
Notes	Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color. Original newspaper strips are extensively edited in this sequence.
Reprinted	From Terry and The Pirates (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939.04.13 [first 2 panels], 1939.04.14, 1939.04.15, 1939.04.16 [panels 3 and 4 reversed], 1939.04.17-1939.04.18 [two panels switched from different days], 1939.04.19 [first panel only], 1939.04.21