Steve Canyon Volume 3: 1951-1952

Steve Canyon (IDW Edition) #3

by Milton Caniff, Dean Mullaney (Editor)

In the third volume of The Complete Steve Canyon -- reprinting every strip from 1951 and 1952 -- new and old characters are paired off. Breck Nazaire and Dr. Deen Wilderness return. Steve meets the lovely Duchess of Denver and the sadistic Fungo; gets assigned to Eel Island, where he encounters crusty Colonel Index and his not-so-blushing bride; is sent to protect a government secret at Maumee University, only to reconnect with Summer Olson and meet her mysterious friend, Kate Subjekt; and eventually gets caught in the deep woods with Miss Mizzou and Roy Himmerskorn before coming face-to-face yet again with not only Summer, but the Copperhead herself -- Copper Calhoon!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Strips

336 pages, Hardcover

First published March 5, 2013

Reviews

[Drew]

What? No way did this take me three years to read.

(Narrator: In fact, it took him three years to read.)

[Michael · Rating 5 out of 5]

More superbly paced action-adventure from the master of the action-adventure storytelling.

[Carl Waluconis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reviewing one of the Caniff "Steve Canyon" compilations could be like reviewing all of them. If you like the strip, then you will like it - if not, not. Caniff here displays his well-developed skills at moving a suspenseful narrative supplied with thrills. In this volume, Canyon circling into marriage has more soap opera than most of the stories. In terms of the time period, you have some interesting social history during the Korean War. Also interesting, at one point Steve Canyon says to his betrothed, Summer Olsen, concerning her upscale apartment, "I still think you're running a little dope on the side -- to only the best people of course." Milton Caniff humor, I suppose.