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In 1953, Canada Dry offered a "premium giveaway" with a case of its ginger ale—one minibook in a trilogy series of Terry and the Pirates strips by Wunder printed by Harvey Comics. Other incarnations of Caniff's work included a television series and a radio show. The August–September 1953 issue (#6) of Mad featured a satire by Wally Wood entitled "Teddy and the Pirates" where Teddy and Half-Shot Charlie encounter the Dragging Lady.
Terry and the Pirates has been cited by fellow comic illustrator Doug Wildey as one of his main inspirations for the 1964 Hanna Barbera television cartoon Jonny Quest. Robert Culp said that the comic strip Terry and the Pirates was his inspiration for the "tone" and "spirit" and "noir heightened realism" of the 1965 NBC TV series, I Spy, when he was writing the pilot. Umberto Eco's novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana references Terry and the Pirates, and its title comes from the Italian translation of one of the various adventures.
In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the "Comic Strip Classics" series of commemorative postage stamps.
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