This book features an article on Alfred Andriola, a former aide to Caniff who went on to create "Kerry Drake", and a retrospective on Caniff's wartime strip for the soldiers, "Male Call". The Steve Canyon strips are from September 27, 1947 to December 31, 1947. New characters are Herr Splitz, a pirate of downed aircraft, Fireball Feeney, master of the snappy patter, and Deen Wilderness, gal doctor of the skyways. Pg. 47, by the way, contains some of Caniff's most atrocious puns, and the Christmas panel is the first of Caniff's poignant remembrances for those no longer with us. ( )