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This is a REAL long shot, but I'm going to ask it anyway (in a few places).
Does anyone know where to find (or maybe even remember) a Steve Canyon episode where Summer Olson's kid was jailed in Turkey?
I have looked and couldn't find it.
I vividly recall the last frame of the strip and that incident. It has (suddenly) come to mind dozens of times over the years, and I don't remember the story.
Doesn't ring an immediate bell but as we go off on this search, let me ask......we are talking about the son, right? Not the daughter?
Mind you, this was a comic I read as a young teen in "Stars and Stripes", so while I recall there were two children, I think, I don't know how they quite "came about".
Doesn't ring an immediate bell but as we go off on this search, let me ask......we are talking about the son, right? Not the daughter?
Mind you, this was a comic I read as a young teen in "Stars and Stripes", so while I recall there were two children, I think, I don't know how they quite "came about".
I mean Summer Olson's kid, without looking all over creation, I think the name was Leighton Olson. In "later" years Steve and Summer were "hinted" at being married. The boy/young man was her son from her first marriage.
After Milton Caniff died, the very last frame of the actual strip (according to my memory) shows the young man with something like a burial mound and he said something to the effect of, "I just buried my father." It was powerful. Milton Caniff is dead and with that Steve Canyon is dead, as if Steve Canyon was his alter-ego.
I don't remember Steve Canyon ever having any children of his own. Milton Caniff didn't either, but he sort of adopted a nephew and I think two nieces.
There was also (I think) a frame showing the signatures of famous cartoonists of the day maybe one frame after that, but the last frame of the actual story was as described above.
The episode about the Turkish jail may have been sometime around when Turkey joined NATO.
Okay, then Leighton was the small kid, with the tall wispy long haired blonde girl and the short bald headed guy that looked like a miniature Uncle Fester? The football kid who could drop kick oodles and oodles tens of yards? Wasn't there a snow storm where they had flares on the goal posts?
she's our hero's cousin Poteet. At least one source said she was his ward for a time.
In doing research for this, I see there was a bit more than just the comic strip in the newspapers, such as a comic book and at least a movie. With that in mind, maybe there were different stories going around and the one you are looking for might be there?
Okay, then Leighton was the small kid, with the tall wispy long haired blonde girl and the short bald headed guy that looked like a miniature Uncle Fester? The football kid who could drop kick oodles and oodles tens of yards? Wasn't there a snow storm where they had flares on the goal posts?
she's our hero's cousin Poteet. At least one source said she was his ward for a time.
In doing research for this, I see there was a bit more than just the comic strip in the newspapers, such as a comic book and at least a movie. With that in mind, maybe there were different stories going around and the one you are looking for might be there?
The old man you are thinking of was probably Happy Easter, a wealthy eccentric. The blonde girl, maybe Poteet. The little boy in some scenes grew up. It's Leighton Olso, Jr. I don't remember much about a great teenage football talent.
By the time the strip gained real popularity (as in TV show), I was pretty much beyond the comic book stage, although I do vaguely recall there may have been such comic books at the local drug store. I followed it in the daily newspaper. I'm from Dayton, where Milton Caniff grew up, and it was pretty big stuff there.
Thanks for the links, but I got a "Forbidden" with the first one. The second was a bit informative. Someone on another board said Ohio State University has copies of all of Caniff's stuff, but I haven't gotten there yet.
This is a REAL long shot, but I'm going to ask it anyway (in a few places).
Does anyone know where to find (or maybe even remember) a Steve Canyon episode where Summer Olson's kid was jailed in Turkey?
I have looked and couldn't find it.
I vividly recall the last frame of the strip and that incident. It has (suddenly) come to mind dozens of times over the years, and I don't remember the story.
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