Steve Canyon

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Statue of Steve Canyon in Idaho Springs

Steve Canyon is a comic strip by the US comic artist Milton Caniff .

Framework for action

Steve Canyon is a former Air Force pilot who, as a pilot for the airline Horizons Unlimited , experienced numerous adventures in various exotic locations after the Second World War , had to defend himself against various villains and broke many women's hearts. Against the backdrop of the Cold War , experiences changed and during the Korean War Canyon rejoined the Air Force, which he belonged to until the end of the series and where he made it to lieutenant colonel .

Appear

Since Caniff did not own the rights to Terry and the Pirates and saw his artistic freedom restricted, he gave up the series at the end of 1946 and switched to the Chicago Sun-Times , which had offered him a guarantee fee of 520,000 US dollars . Due to Caniff's outstanding reputation, Steve Canyon was signed to 162 newspapers before the comic was first published, without the comic being known in detail, and first appeared on the front page of the Chicago Sun-Times on January 13, 1947 , followed by the first Sunday page six days later.

Steve Canyon was continued by Caniff, who was supported by William Thomas Overgard , Frank Engli , Ray Bailey , Alex Kotzky and Dick Rockwell , among others , until his death in 1988. Rockwell, in particular, helped Caniff in the latter years of his life when he restricted himself to texting due to his deteriorating health. In total, Steve Canyon , whose last strip appeared on June 4, 1988, was reprinted in 450 newspapers. On the occasion of the death of Milton Caniff on June 4, 1988, instead of the Steve Canyon strip, a single picture based on Steve Cayon appeared , which was accompanied by the signatures 78 artist colleagues, including Will Eisner , John Cullen Murphy and Dik Browne . In contrast to Terry and the Pirates , Caniff retained the rights to Steve Canyon .

In German-speaking countries, excerpts from Steve Canyon appeared in six albums from 1985 to 1988 by Feest Verlag . The translation for the first five albums comes from Volker Staub, the sixth album was translated by Bernd Leibowitz.

Based on the comic, a total of 34 half-hour episodes of a television series called Steve Canyon were filmed between 1958 and 1960 . The main actor was Dean Fredericks .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 244 .
  2. ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 255 .
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 89 .
  4. ↑ Andreas C. Knigge: 50 Classic Comics. From Lyonel Feininger to Art Spiegelman . Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 2004, ISBN 3-8067-2556-X , p. 76 .
  5. ^ William Thomas Overgard at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2009
  6. ^ Frank Engli at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2009
  7. ↑ Ray Bailey at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2009
  8. ↑ Alex Kotzky at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2009
  9. ↑ Dick Rockwell at lambiek.net (English) , accessed March 9, 2009
  10. ↑ a b Uwe Anton: Milton Caniff died . In: Andreas C. Knigge (Ed.): Comic Jahrbuch 1989 . Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-36565-5 , pp. 366 .
  11. ↑ Wolfgang J. Fuchs: 60 years of adventure trips . In: Andreas C. Knigge (Ed.): Comic Jahrbuch 1989 . Ullstein-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main; Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-36565-5 , pp. 143 .
  12. ↑ Milton Caniff at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on March 9, 2009
  13. ↑ Milton Caniff at comicguide.de , accessed on March 9, 2009
  14. ↑ Steve Canyon at imdb.com (English) , accessed March 9, 2009