I also heartily endorse the six-volume Terry and the Pirates series - it's superb!

By the way, the Library of American Comics now has its own website, including a blog found here.  The latest entry happens to have a "Terry Top 10" character list composed by Bruce Canwell, who you probably recognize from his wonderful essays in the Terry books.

Not a bad list, though I'd have to find room somewhere for Raven Sherman myself...


"As for contentment, that is a myth.  Give a man everything he wishes and he will be unhappy, because he didn't wish for more; give him more, and he will die of his worries.  Only a turtle, asleep on a sunny log, knows contentment!"
-Merlin to Prince Valiant

            Hal Foster 3-7-43