The Hermes Press is leaking slowly reproductions of the famous comic strip titled “Terry and the Pirates.” The talented Milton Caniff created this innovate and artful adventure comic strip in 1934 and continued it until 1944. George Wunder continued the strip until 1973. In this volume are three rather mediocre stories of Terry and his […]
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BOOK REVIEW: Steve Canyon, Volume 1955 to 1956 by Milton Caniff
I opened the cover of this tome with eager anticipation—to read and view another of Caniff’s boffo comic-strip stories about the rousing adventures of the heroic Lieutenant Colonel Steven B. Canyon, USAF. Alas! I was disappointed. I found that Caniff’s stories in this volume had plots that are incongruous to the Steve Canyon mystic, and […]
Black Orchid
A key character in my novel St. Catherine’s Crown is Black Orchid—an incredibly beautiful and seductive female—as only an oriental female can be. She is narcissistic to a faretheewell. Quick to hot temper when provoked, inordinately vain, and having no moral compass; she gets what she wants by whatever means are necessary: treachery, seduction, prevarication. […]