for a respectable twenty-seven years until its discontinuation in 1973 , by which time Terry had become a full-grown man and reached the rank of Colonel . MORE:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Terry_and_Pirates_2-29-36_Strip.png MORE:   http://comicsradio.blogspot.com/search/label/Terry%20and%20the%20Pirates MORE:  http://www.animationarchive.org/2007/03/comics-milton-caniffs-steve-canyon.html In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classics series of commemorative