Dickie Dare

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Dickie Dare was the first comic strip created by Milton Caniff . The comic, which appeared in various newspapers from 1933 to 1961, is considered to be the forerunner of Caniff's strip Terry and the Pirates .

Plot and characters

The title hero is the twelve-year-old Dickie, who initially experiences numerous adventures in his imagination with Robin Hood , Robinson Crusoe and various other protagonists. In the spring of 1934 he was given the help of the adult writer Dan Flynn, a friend of Dickie's father, with whom he was embroiled in real adventures. While Dickie appeared in the early years as a twelve-year-old, in the end he matured to become an officer candidate.

Publication and draftsman

Dickie Dare's first adventure appeared on July 31, 1933. After Caniff, who had previously worked on other series, gave up the series in the fall of 1934 because of his work on Terry and the Pirates (the last episode drawn by Caniff appeared on January 1 , 1933 ) December 1934), it was taken over by Coulton Waugh . In 1944 the comic was continued by Waugh's assistant Mabel Odin Burvik. She was followed by Frank Matera , who was in turn replaced by Waugh. This held Dickie Dare until he was hired in 1961.

meaning

Through Dickie Dare , Caniff managed to get the attention of publisher Joseph Medill Patterson , who enticed Caniff to draw a new daily strip for his newspapers with Terry and the Pirates . The constellation of adult daredevils with a youthful companion, as it was given in Dickie Dare from the spring of 1934 , was also the starting constellation of Terry and the Pirates , only the hair color of the two main actors was changed. Dan Flynn was added by Caniff on the advice of a newspaper publisher, who had advised him that the comic strip was intended to appeal in particular to adult buyers of the newspaper.

literature

  • Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 77.
  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 75–76.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milton Caniff at lambiek.net , accessed September 9, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: 50 classic comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 73.