Milton Caniff () was an American cartoonist, famous for his "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips. During World War II, he drew a strip called "Male Call" which featured a lady named Miss Lace who raises the spirits of the troops. · Description. Milton Caniff created Male Call as his contribution to the war effort and to keep the enlisted men's spirits up. These were drawn strictly for publication in military newspapers. It originally started out as an alternative Terry and Pirates strip prominently featuring Burma but when domestic newspapers complained, Caniff was forced to abandon that idea after only 14 episodes. Male Call. Miss Lace is back and she's with Hermes Press! Milton Caniff's famous good girl, created just for servicemen during WW II, known to G.I. Joes everywhere as "Lace," is available to all her fans in a deluxe hardcover art book reprinting the entire run of the strip/5.
Male Call book. Read reviews from world's largest community for readers. Male Call was a comic strip created and drawn by Milton Caniff on a volunteer basis, exclusively for US military publications during World War II. The strip began Janu. Caniff continued Male Call until seven months after V-J Day, bringing it to a conclusion on March 3, The title of this book is Milton Caniff's Male Call and it was written by Milton Caniff. This particular edition is in a Hardcover format. This books publish date is and it has a suggested retail price of $ It was published by Hermes Press and has a total of pages in the book.
Another strip had her dancing with a man in civilian clothes; a disgruntled GI shoved and mocked him for having an easy life, but Lace's partner was in fact an ex-GI blinded in battle. Caniff continued Male Call until seven months after V-J Day, ending it in March In , Caniff ended his association with Terry and the Pirates. While the strip was a major success, it was not owned by its creator but by its distributing syndicate, the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News, a common. With the outbreak of World War II, Caniff attempted to create a military version of Terry for the Camp Newspaper Service, a military syndicate that supplied features to small armed forces publications. Business complications prevented this, so Caniff created a new comic strip titled Male Call. Its protagonist was Miss Lace, a shapely young woman who preferred enlisted men to officers. Milton Caniff’s Male Call. Many men and women were unable to participate in World War II due to physical maladies like Little Abner’s one-legged creator Al Capp. Cartoonist Milton Caniff was also unable to defend his country and saw this as an opportunity to donate his time and wit back to those on the warfront.
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