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* HeadgearHeadstone: When Milton Caniff died, the last strip to run was a tribute including a panel by Bill Mauldin. This showed Mauldin's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII soldier Willie sticking a rifle-sized pen into the ground while Steve, in flight suit, set a pilot's helmet atop the pen. (The rest of the tribute was the signatures of twenty or thirty other cartoonists.)
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* BiblesFromTheDead: In one of the storylines surrounding Poteet Canyon's college days, one of her fellow students goes looking for a part-time job and is recruited by a pair of conmen running this scam, who plan to use him as a fall guy if they hit trouble.
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* ScammingTheBereaved: In one of the storylines surrounding Poteet Canyon's college days, one of her fellow students goes looking for a part-time job and is recruited by a pair of conmen running this scam, who plan to use him as a fall guy if they hit trouble.
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what America is really like. They eventually settle on ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.
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**In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what America is really like. They eventually settle on''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.
**A 1981 Sunday strip has Steve dreaming of fighting in the dying days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and attempting and failing to flee a German pilot looking to finish off his damaged plane. Steve is saved by the engagement of another pilot in a Sopwith Camel, and as he waves to his benefactor, the benefactor waves back with a [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} distinctly canine paw]].[[note]]The original, which Caniff inscribed for and sent to Charles Schulz, is reprinted in the book ''Peanuts: A Golden Celebration''.[[/note]]
**In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what America is really like. They eventually settle on
**A 1981 Sunday strip has Steve dreaming of fighting in the dying days of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and attempting and failing to flee a German pilot looking to finish off his damaged plane. Steve is saved by the engagement of another pilot in a Sopwith Camel, and as he waves to his benefactor, the benefactor waves back with a [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} distinctly canine paw]].[[note]]The original, which Caniff inscribed for and sent to Charles Schulz, is reprinted in the book ''Peanuts: A Golden Celebration''.[[/note]]
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what [[EagleLand America]] is really like. They eventually settle on ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what [[EagleLand America]] America is really like. They eventually settle on ''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what [[EagleLand America]] is really like. They eventually settle on Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives.
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what [[EagleLand America]] is really like. They eventually settle on Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives.''Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives''.
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* ShoutOut: In one storyline, Steve's cargo company has to choose a film to show the princess of Not-Tibet what [[EagleLand America]] is really like. They eventually settle on Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives.
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Steve Canyon was an ex-Air Force pilot running his own air-transport business, which brought him into contact with a variety of adventures. When the Korean War broke out in real life, Caniff had Steve rejoin the Air Force, where he remained for the rest of the strip's run, transitioning after Korea into Cold War counter-espionage.
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Steve Canyon was an ex-Air Force pilot running his own air-transport business, which brought him into contact with a variety of adventures. When the Korean War UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar broke out in real life, Caniff had Steve rejoin the Air Force, where he remained for the rest of the strip's run, transitioning after Korea into Cold War counter-espionage.
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* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: Canyon returned to military service when the Korean War broke out.
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* UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks: Steve had been in the Army Air Force during the Second World War, and returned to military service in the USAF once the Korean War broke out, and remained there for the rest of the strip.
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* AcePilot: Steve, of course, but many others show up in the strip's long run.
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* UsefulNotes/TheKoreanWar: Canyon returned to military service when the Korean War broke out.
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* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Steve smoked a pipe, to show that he wasn't your usual rough-and-tumble pilot. He was a ''thinking man's'' fighter jock.
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* WeaponTombstone: When Caniff died, the final installment of the strip was followed by a tribute from his fellow cartoonists, featuring a depiction by Bill Mauldin of a weapon tombstone in which the weapon was an enormous pen.
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''Steve Canyon'' is an action-adventure comic strip that ran from 1947 to 1988. It was created, written, and drawn by Milton Caniff, the creator of ''ComicStrip/TerryAndThePirates''.
Steve Canyon was an ex-Air Force pilot running his own air-transport business, which brought him into contact with a variety of adventures. When the Korean War broke out in real life, Caniff had Steve rejoin the Air Force, where he remained for the rest of the strip's run, transitioning after Korea into Cold War counter-espionage.
In later years, Caniff varied the tone of the strip by interspersing occasional storylines giving the limelight to various members of Steve's supporting cast, in particular his cousin Poteet, who started out as a student and later became a journalist.
The strip inspired a ''Steve Canyon'' TV series in the late 1950s, starring Dean Fredericks. Steve Canyon was also one of the comic strip characters included in the 1972 MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''WesternAnimation/TheManWhoHatedLaughter''.
!!This series provides examples of:
* BiblesFromTheDead: In one of the storylines surrounding Poteet Canyon's college days, one of her fellow students goes looking for a part-time job and is recruited by a pair of conmen running this scam, who plan to use him as a fall guy if they hit trouble.
* EagleSquadron: One extended storyline placed Steve in charge of "The Dragonflies" flying against a "puppet government" in China.
* DaEditor: "Iron" Myke, the editor of the newspaper Poteet starts working for.
* RememberTheAlamo: Parodied. Steve was having a dream, chock-full of anachronisms, about being part of Perry's 1850s expedition to open up Japan. When a quarrel with the local authorities began, he suggested the ambassador say "Remember Pearl Harbor!" as a "So there!" The ambassador used it and then asked Steve, "Where the heck is Pearl Harbor?"
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Steve Canyon was an ex-Air Force pilot running his own air-transport business, which brought him into contact with a variety of adventures. When the Korean War broke out in real life, Caniff had Steve rejoin the Air Force, where he remained for the rest of the strip's run, transitioning after Korea into Cold War counter-espionage.
In later years, Caniff varied the tone of the strip by interspersing occasional storylines giving the limelight to various members of Steve's supporting cast, in particular his cousin Poteet, who started out as a student and later became a journalist.
The strip inspired a ''Steve Canyon'' TV series in the late 1950s, starring Dean Fredericks. Steve Canyon was also one of the comic strip characters included in the 1972 MassiveMultiplayerCrossover ''WesternAnimation/TheManWhoHatedLaughter''.
!!This series provides examples of:
* BiblesFromTheDead: In one of the storylines surrounding Poteet Canyon's college days, one of her fellow students goes looking for a part-time job and is recruited by a pair of conmen running this scam, who plan to use him as a fall guy if they hit trouble.
* EagleSquadron: One extended storyline placed Steve in charge of "The Dragonflies" flying against a "puppet government" in China.
* DaEditor: "Iron" Myke, the editor of the newspaper Poteet starts working for.
* RememberTheAlamo: Parodied. Steve was having a dream, chock-full of anachronisms, about being part of Perry's 1850s expedition to open up Japan. When a quarrel with the local authorities began, he suggested the ambassador say "Remember Pearl Harbor!" as a "So there!" The ambassador used it and then asked Steve, "Where the heck is Pearl Harbor?"
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