The Steve Canyon and Miss Mizzou collection, 1952-1996.

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The Steve Canyon and Miss Mizzou collection, 1952-1996.

Contains 307 original Steve Canyon cartoons from August 1 to December 31, 1952, the December 1952 issue of "Saga: True Adventures for Men" which includes the article "Steve Canyons Girls," an Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity publication on the Miss Mizzou Scholoarship Pageant of 1958, photocopies of newspaper clippings and photocopies of pages from Savitar (the yearbook of University of Missouri--Columbia). The newspaper clippings deal mostly with the selection of Bek Stiner as the model for Miss Mizzou and Milton Caniff and Bek Stiner's visit to the University of Missouri in 1952. The pages from Savitar highlight the Miss Mizzou Scholarship Pageant.

3 items (1 binder, 1 booklet and 1 magazine issue)

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Caniff, Milton Arthur, 1907-1988

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American cartoonist, best known for the long-running comic strips Terry and the pirates and Steve Canyon. Lived for many years in New City, NY as a neighbor of Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, Maxwell Anderson, Alan Jay Lerner, and others. Also an original board member of the Kurt Weill for Music thanks to his long association with Lenya. Caniff died in 1988. From the description of An oral history interview with Milton Caniff / conducted for the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music by Donald Spo...

Stiner, Bek.

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