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Caniff achieved worldwide acclaim for his syndicated Terry and the Pirates by the year 1946. However, he had a problem with having full creative control over the strip as the Chicago Tribune newspaper syndication head Captain Joseph Patterson owned all the rights for the particular strip he created, wrote, and drew. This led Caniff to make further negotiations with Field Enterprises persuading them to let him create a new strip that would come with ownership.Steve Canyon was “marketed and distributed by King Features, which was subcontracted as Field’s selling agent”[4]. A testament to Caniff’s popularity was that even before publication, over sixty clients consented to run Steve Canyon. He also got the opportunity to capture the last episode of Terry and the Pirates in December 1946, after which George Wonder took over the comic strip. Caniff was also able to debut at the hugely popular Steve Canyon strip in 168 newspapers. In the set of 1950s, the strip was very much boasted about, leading to both Caniff and Steve Canyon becoming covers of Time in 1947 and Newsweek in 1950.
Numerous comic strip artists prior to and after Caniff have utilized non-credited aides or ghost artists, and he did as well. He employed comic book artist Dick Rockwell, the nephew of American illustrator Norman Rockwell, as his assistant. Caniff’s main characters were written and drawn by Caniff himself while Rockwell inked and penciled the supporting characters and other miscellaneous elements. Rockwell worked on Canyon until the 3rd of May 1988, when Caniff died.[5][6] The last Steve Canyon comic strip was a two panel remembrance of Caniff, the first drawn by cartoonist Bill Mauldin, while the second consisted of the signatures of 78 other cartoonists.
In 1997, on June 23, an authorized 50th anniversary Steve Canyon strip was published by Air Force Times, a civilian weekly newspaper covering United States Air Force. They published a special issue commemorating the first Steve Canyon-and US Air Force anniversary in which Steve Canyon was a character in the 96-page insert titled ‘The First Fifty Years: US Air Force 1947-1997′ has a cover illustrated in the style of a sunday strip. The story and artwork for this piece were supplied by Air force Master Seargant Russ Maheras and it was colored by Carl Gafford. On 24th September 2007, Air Force Times published a 60th anniversary edition of canyon featuring a strip by Moser, and in this color dipcited sunday style strip, brigadier general Steve canyon was investigating Taliban activity in Afghanistan.
Steve Canyon was a warmhearted carefree explorer. He was a former veteran who ran his own air transport business. During the Korean War, he permanently returned to US Air Force, and remained until the end of the strip-run. After that he worked in Air Force intelligence and operations.
To begin with, his companions were other veterans, and romantic interest was supplied by Copper Calhoon a sort of capitalistic version of the popular Dragon Lady character Caniff had drawn for Terry and the Pirates. Gradually Canyon acquired a impatient millionaire explorer sidekick called Happy Easter and a steady romance with Summer Olson, who used to be Calhoon’s personal assistant. (Canyon and Olson were “man and wife” in the first panel of the April 25 1970 daily strip.) General Philerie was based on the legendary Phil Cochran from World War II, who was an ace flyer and came from Erie, as noted in the character’s name “Phil – Erie”. Cochran was, of course, the model for Flip Corkin from Terry and the Pirates.
Steve Canyon was her guardian when Poteet Canyon came into his life in the mid 1950s. She went to Maumee University and then ventured into journalism, starting at a regional newspaper, but for years it was shrouded how she was related to him and why was she sent to him. At a nearby airfield, she had befriended Bitsy Beekman who worked on a prestigious magazine like ‘Vogue’. From the late 1960s to late 70s, other stories started to shift towards the Summer’s son from her first marriage, Leighton Olson Jr. who became a drug addict then rode the wave of anti-war activism and went to Maumee University. He was able to maintain some stability when he started dating Stalky Schweisenberger while attending her college.
With Canyon returning to serve in the military, the storyline turned around the responsibilities of American citizens along with the Cold war intrigue. Caniff became more patriotic during this time. These themes helped many of the readers accommodate his shift in tone. He was always obsessed with the struggle of soldiers and during Christmastime, through Canyon, he made sure to remind readers of the great sacrifices they go through.
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