Page "Terry and the Pirates (comic strip)" Paragraph 38

After Caniff's departure, Terry and the Pirates became a " zombie strip " and was assigned to Associated Press artist George Wunder.

Wunder drew highly detailed panels, but some critics, notably Maurice Horn, claimed that it was sometimes difficult to tell one character from another and that his work lacked Caniff's essential humor.

Nevertheless, he kept the strip going for another 27 years until its discontinuation on February 25, 1973, by which time Terry had become a full-grown man and reached the rank of Colonel.