Terry and The Pirates (comic Strip) - Reprints

Reprints

NBM, under its Flying Buttress Comics Library line, reprinted all of the Caniff Terry strips (10/22/34 to 12/29/46) in two hardcover series as well as in a series of trade paperbacks. The first 12-volume series contained all of the dailies and the Sundays in black and white. The second 12-volume series contained all of the Sundays in color with each page split between two pages. The daily strips were also printed by NBM in a 25-volume softcover edition (reprinting all of the dailies and the Sundays that ran concurrent storylines) with the strips in a smaller size and a lower quality than the hardcover volumes.

Kitchen Sink Press began a new hardcover reprint series with dailies and Sundays (in color and presented complete on one page, including title bars in the strips from the first year that were omitted from the NBM series), but discontinued it after only two volumes. These out-of-print series can be hard to find.

In March 2007, IDW Publishing announced a new imprint, the Library of American Comics. It published quarterly collections of six hardcover editions reprinting the Sunday strips with their original color alongside the daily strips. The books are 11” x 8.5” oblong and retailed at $49.99 each. The first volume, published September 2007, reprinted strips from October 1934 through the end of 1936. The sixth and last volume appeared in early 2009.