Steve Canyon Milton Caniff Original Comic Strip Art 1973 Vintage Panel RARE

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Steve Canyon Milton Caniff Original Comic Strip Art 1973 Vintage Panel RARE:
$99.99

Offered for sale an original cut panel from an original daily strip of Milton Caniff\'s \"Steve Canyon\" (dated: 9/23/73, 1/3 panels), featuring a nice close up of the main character and his love interest, and is a RARE opportunity to own an original work of art from this legendary comic series (see bio info below). The panel measures 7\" x 7\", is in \"FAIR\" condition (see details above), and is very suitable for framing and display. The asking price is $99.99 with FREE shipping/handling (U.S. Domestic Orders only),and is the only example of it\'s kind offered for sale on ! Overseas buyers please add for additional S/H costs, and CA State Residents please add 9% sales tax. Thanks for visiting my sale listing, and feel free to contact me with further questions or comments!

note: this panel was cut apart and used for educational purposes back in the 1970\'s by one of the first nationally known lecturers about comic art, so it has a unique and interesting back story, and was part of a larger pedigree collection that surfaced a few years ago.

Steve CanyonMilton Caniff\'sSteve Canyon(November 17, 1963)

Steve Canyonwas a long-runningAmericanadventurecomic stripby writer-artistMilton Caniff. Launched shortly after Caniff retired from his previous strip,Terry and the Pirates,Steve Canyonran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988, shortly after Caniff\'s death. Caniff won theReuben Awardfor the strip in 1971.

Contents[hide]

1History
2Characters and story
3Models
4Other media
- 4.1Comics and strip collections
- 4.2Cinema
- 4.3Television
- 4.4Novels
5Real world depictions
6References
7External links

History[edit]

By 1946, Caniff had developed a worldwide reputation for hissyndicatedTerry and the Pirates. However, the rights for the strip he had created, written and drawn (forChicago Tribunenewspaper syndicate editor CaptainJoseph Patterson), were entirely owned by the syndicate. Seeking creative control, Caniff negotiated withField Enterprisesfor a new strip on which he could retain ownership.[1]The last Caniff episode ofTerry and the Piratesappeared in December 1946, and thenGeorge Wundertook over the strip. Caniff\'s new strip,Steve Canyon, debuted in 168 newspapers.

Many strip creators before and since employ uncredited assistants or ghost artists, and Caniff was no exception. In 1952, he hiredcomic bookartistDick Rockwell(nephew of famed illustratorNorman Rockwell) as his assistant. While Caniff scripted and drew the main characters, Rockwellpenciledandinkedsecondary characters and backgrounds. Rockwell continued onCanyonuntil Caniff\'s death on May 3, 1988.[2][3]

Milton Caniffwith film actressCarol Ohmart, the model for Copper Calhoon in 1947.[citation needed]

The last syndicatedSteve Canyonstrip was a tribute to Caniff in two panels, one drawn by cartoonistBill Mauldin, the other containing the signatures of 78 fellow cartoonists.

On June 23, 1997, an authorized 50th anniversarySteve Canyonstrip was published by theAir Force Times, a civilian weekly newspaper covering theUnited States Air Force.Steve Canyonand the U.S. Air Force having been created the same year, the shared anniversary was celebrated withSteve Canyonappearing as part of a 96-page insert,The First Fifty Years: U.S. Air Force 1947-1997. Drawn in the style of aSunday strip, the story and art for this commemorative were provided by Air Force Master SergeantRuss Maheras, with coloring byCarl Gafford. On Monday, September 24, 2007,Air Force Timespublished a 60th anniversarySteve Canyonstrip by Maheras.[4]The color, Sunday-style strip depicts Brigadier General Steve Canyon in Afghanistan, and story[edit]

Steve Canyon was an easygoing adventurer with a soft heart. Originally a veteran running his own air-transport business, the character returned to theU.S. Air Forceduring theKorean Warand stayed in the military for the remainder of the strip\'s run.

Initially, his buddies were fellow veterans, and romantic interest was provided by Copper Calhoon, a kind of capitalist version of the popular Dragon Lady character Caniff had created forTerry and the Pirates. Eventually, Canyon developed a sometime-sidekick in crotchety millionaire adventurer Happy Easter, along with a permanent love interest in Summer Olson, Calhoon\'s private secretary (Canyon and Olson were pronounced \"man and wife\" in the first panel of the April 25, 1970 daily strip). General Philerie was based on legendary World War II heroPhil Cochran, who came fromErie, as noted in the character\'s name (Phil-Erie). Cochran had been the model for Flip Corkin fromTerry and the PiratesandCanyonincluded a Terry-like major character called Reed Kimberley.

Caniff was intensely patriotic, and with Canyon\'s return to the military, the story began to revolve aroundCold Warintrigue and the responsibilities of American citizens. Despite this shift in tone, Caniff was able to maintain thepicaresquequality of his globally set stories. InSteve Canyon, as he did inTerry, Caniff made a special effort to remind readers of servicemen\'s sacrifices at Christmas.[6]

Models[edit]Steve Canyonas it was seen in Chile

Caniff was famous for colorful villains and intriguing female characters, such as Madame Lynx and the lovely exiled ruler, Princess Snowflower. Madame Lynx was based on Madame Egelichi, thefemme fatalespy played byIlona Masseyin theMarx BrothersmovieLove Happy(1949). The character stirred Caniff\'s imagination so much that he hired Ilona Massey personally to pose for him.[7]Besides casting Ilona Massey as Lynx, Caniff patterned Pipper the Piper afterJohn Kennedy,[7]and Miss Mizzou after eitherMarilyn Monroe[7]or actress Bek Nelson-Gordon.[8]The character of Charlie Vanilla (who would frequently appear with an ice cream cone in hand) was based on Caniff\'s longtime friendCharles Russhon, a former photographer and U.S. Air Force lieutenant who became a technical advisor on fiveJames Bondfilms.[9]

Other media[edit]Comics and strip collections[edit]

Harvey Comicsreprinted the strip in a half-dozen 1948 comic books, andDell Comicspublished seven issues of original stories (1953–59) by former Caniff assistant Ray Bailey (who had anticipatedSteve Canyonwith his ownBruce Gentryabout a charter pilot) in theirFour Colorseries (#519, 578, 641, 737, 804, 939, 1033).Steve Canyonwas reprinted byThe Menomonee Falls Gazette,Kitchen Sink PressandComics Revue,[10]withHermes Pressreprinting the comic book in 2011.

Steve Canyon (1950)

Kitchen Sink Press publishedSteve Canyon Magazinefor 21 issues, until replacing it withtrade paperbackcollections using the same numbering:

Steve Canyon v.23 The Scarlet Princess(1989, reprints August 9, 1955 to April 11, 1956)
Steve Canyon v.24 Taps for \'Shanty\' Town(1989, reprints April 12, 1956 to November 28, 1956)
Steve Canyon v.25 Damma Exile(1991,ISBN 0-87816-061-2, reprints Nov 29, 1956 to Sept 24, 1957)
Steve Canyon v.26 War Games(1992,ISBN 0-87816-066-3, reprints Sept 25, 1957 to April 7, 1958)

Kitchen Sink Press also published a one-shotSteve Canyon 3-Dcomic in June 1986 featuring an anaglyph 3D process by Ray Zone.

In 2006,Checker Book Publishing Groupbegan releasing a year-by-year collection ofSteve Canyon:

Steve Canyon: 1948(ISBN 0-9741664-1-3)
Steve Canyon: 1949(ISBN 0-9710249-1-X, February 9, 1949 and February 18, 1950)
Steve Canyon: 1950(ISBN 1-933160-51-9, reprints January 29 to October 7, 1950)
Steve Canyon: 1951(ISBN 1-933160-10-1, reprints October 8, 1950 to Nov 14, 1951)
Steve Canyon: 1952(ISBN 1-933160-55-1, reprints April 9, 1952 to May 14, 1953)
Steve Canyon: 1953(ISBN 1-933160-57-8, reprints May 15, 1953 to August 5, 1954)
Steve Canyon: 1954(ISBN 1-933160-23-3, reprints August 6, 1954 to August 8, 1955)
Steve Canyon: 1955(ISBN 978-1-933160-73-3, reprints August 9, 1955 to 1956; new format)

In 2012,IDW Publishingbegan a new hardcover reprint series in their \"Library of American Comics\".

Steve Canyon v.2: 1949-50(2012)
Steve Canyon v.3: 1951-52(2013)
Steve Canyon v.4: 1953-54(2014)
Steve Canyon v.5: 1955-56(2014)
Steve Canyon v.6: 1957-58(TBP 2015)

Cinema[edit]

In the late 1940s producerDavid O. Selznickconsidered aSteve Canyonfilm seriesstarringGuy Madison, with Madison\'s agentHenry Willsontalking Selnick out of it.[11]

Television[edit]

The strip was adapted into a filmed, half-hourtelevision seriesof 34 episodes onNBCin 1958–59 (with reruns onABCin 1960).Dean Fredericks(1924–99), formerly theHindumanservant onJohnny Weissmuller\'s 1955–56Jungle Jimseries, played Canyon—a troubleshooter for theUnited States Air Force, spending half the season traveling from base to base before becoming the commanding officer stationed at the strip\'s fictitious Big Thunder Air Force Base inCalifornia. With the exception of General \"Shanty\" Towne (in the pilot episode), none of the other supporting characters from the newspaper strip appeared in the series.

From 2008 to 2009, the first 24 episodes were released on DVD; the remaining episodes are said to be in-the-works.[12]

Novels[edit]

A series of novels was published byGrosset & Dunlapin the 1950s. They were all written by Caniff, with illustrations by himself.

Real world depictions[edit]Steve Canyon statue inIdaho Springs, Colorado

A statue of Steve Canyon was erected inIdaho Springs,Colorado, and a nearby mountain canyon was renamed \"Steve Canyon.\" A mosaic of Steve Canyon\'s ward, Poteet Canyon, stands in front of the city fire station in the town ofPoteet, Texas.[13]

The CIA/USAF covert air war in Laos during the Vietnam War was unofficially called the \"Steve Canyon Program\"[link removed by ]