"WOWEE! Look at those DVD's go!" says Lt. Colonel Stevenson Burton Canyon, serial number AO-041044 of the United States Air Force, on assignment for OPERATION ZERO LAUNCH at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Today is the day that our distributor, Tempe Video, officially started taking and filling orders from all of the major retail outlets for our initial STEVE CANYON SPECIAL EDITION DVD! The official "street date" is March 18th, that's the date the retail outlets are allowed to start forking over our DVDs to the paying public.

A few of the places that it will be available for purchase will be MoviesUnlimited.com, Amazon.com, DVDEmpire.com,, DeepDiscount.com, DVDPlanet.com, CCVideo.com, DVDUniverse.com, BestPrices.com, BudPlant.com, Buy.com and for rent on Netflix.com. You can also find it at the Collectible Wizard store on Magnolia in Burbank.

This release will both "test the waters" for the Full DVD Series release (later this year) and also provide MUCH NEEDED FUNDS to help pay for all of the work that is being done to get everything ready.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP it's as simple as writing reviews on either Amazon.com's Steve Canyon DVD listing AND/OR The Internet Movie Database Steve Canyon page to spread the word on JUST HOW COOL it is. You can also request your favorite online or retail outlets to make sure they carry it and are well stocked, "ask for it by name". We appreciate all of the help that has come our way from each and every one of you that have written to us and/or ordered the DVD or cap and we thank you.


for more info check out the great Steve Canyon on DVD blog!

I apologize for the delay of Steve Canyon, I packed the computer that had the Daily and Sundays away while I moved into a new house, and I thought I had them updated until October...just got my Internet set up and things will continue as they were...sorry folks!!!

Dan

John Ellis sent me the Special Edition Steve Canyon DVD and hat a couple weeks ago(John Ellis, and Harry Guyton are about the nicest most generous people, and treat fans of Milton Caniff and Steve Canyon great !!), and it was awesome to watch...I would highly recommend it to any Caniff-ite. The show was crisp to look at, the sound was crystal clear(none of that scratchy sound), the packaging was great to look at. Here's a quote from the Steve Canyon on DVD blog that explains what's in the special edition DVD.


This DVD contains 4 hand picked episodes not seen in the US in over 45 years! Episodes of this series are so rare they have been highly sought after and prized by film collectors the world over.



FEATURES:

The first OFFICIALLY AUTHORIZED US release of any episodes of this TERRIFIC SERIES since 1960!

Transferred from the original 35mm film broadcast masters!

4 full half hour episodes and more, featuring the famed comic strip hero created by Milton Caniff.

Full Color Printing Inside And Out In An Industry Standard "Crystal Clear" Clamshell Case

Full Color Silkscreened Factory Glass-Mastered Disc

136 minutes / Black & White

NTSC Full Screen (1:33:1) 24 Frame Progressive!

Region 0 - Playable In All Regions

Digitally Remastered

Digitally Enhanced Stereo Sound

4 full episodes originally broadcast in 1958 with Original Commercials and Network Promos


EXTRAS:


2007 Series Restoration Promo (19:17) (features extended clips from 6 other episodes!!!)

Stills Gallery (1:00)

also the hat is awesome...it is a nice fit, and it's not a ball cap, it's a pilots cap! Which makes it even cooler.

John Ellis over at the Steve Canyon on DVD blog reports that the Caniff Estate will be hosting a panel on Saturday July 28th from 2:30pm to 4:00pm, called REMEMBERING CANIFF/CANYON: 100th/60th (1907/1947-2007) in room 4 of the convention.

John writes:You'll not only get to meet Harry Guyton (Executor of the Estate and Milton's nephew), R.C.Harvey (author of Meanwhile...A Biography of Milton Caniff), Denis Kitchen (Steve Canyon Magazine publisher), Russ Maheras (Steve Canyon's 50th Anniversary comic strip author/artist), Diana Doalson (Milton Caniff's Grand-Niece who was put in the Canyon strip in 1969 by Milt), and myself (John Ellis, Caniff Estate Representative and Steve Canyon DVD Producer) in a rollicking remembrance of all things Caniff, but you'll also get to witness the first public screening of the restored 1959 NBC Steve Canyon episode "Operation Intercept" in over 40 years. This is arguably the best episode of the series and is not to be missed! Don't take my word for it, just google "Steve Canyon and B-47" and read what Time Magazine and others said about the episode."

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The Hollywood Animation Archive is participating in an experiment with the Milton Caniff Estate to auction off a small selection of original daily strips from their archive. Check out the story


Personally, I think what the ASIFA is doing to preserve cartoon art is great.

The definitive biography of the legendary creator of Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon.Milton Caniff was one of the most influential American cartoonists of the 20th century. He rose to prominence during World War II when he took the characters in his Terry and the Pirates strip into the war. The trenchant pragmatic patriotism of the strip warmed the hearts and steeled nerves on the home front as well as the battlefront (one of his strips was read into the Congressional Record.) He went on to create Steve Canyon, which was syndicated from 1947 to Caniff's death in 1988.Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, and Steve Canyon: Meanwhile… traces Caniff's life from the cradle to the grave, marking the milestones in the development of the comic strip that Caniff established. Caniff reshaped the medium and set standards by which all storytelling strips were subsequently judged. Although Caniff adapted to changing fashions, he is best known for innovations such as his impressionistic chiaroscuro drawing style that suggested reality economically with shadow rather than with detail; creating many colorful characters, including the stalwart Pat Ryan from Terry and the Pirates, Burma the shady lady, and, most memorable of all, the Dragon Lady, a beautiful but mysteriously menacing pirate queen who turned Chinese patriot during the War; and enhancing the melodrama of adventure strips by making character development integral to the action-packed plots.While Milton Caniff provides a biography of Caniff and analyzes his storytelling techniques, it also serves as a history of the medium and reveals the inner workings of the syndicate business (at which Caniff was as expert as he was at cartooning). The book traces Caniff's life from the cradle to the grave, and examines the artistic innovations and work routines of a nationally distributed cartoonist whose career was central the development of the artform, marking along the way the milestones in the development of comic strip artistry that Caniff established. The book charts Caniff's rise to fame and fortune through artistic excellence and patriotic fervor when the characters in his comic strip Terry and the Pirates entered World War II, then recounts the decline of his strip Steve Canyon's popularity (whose protagonist served as an unofficial spokesman for the U.S. Air Force from the Korean War until the end of the strip in 1988) when the same brand of patriotism that had inspired admiration during World War II provoked protest during Vietnam, a bittersweet conclusion to a career spent producing a daily feature for 55 years, a record that would stand for a generation. Pre order it today!

Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon