Ah, Milton Caniff. I own the first four volumes of The Complete Terry and the Pirates. Also have a large number of scans on it on my computer, in case I can figure out which story line to post a third of.
I've got to say I like the earlier storylines when Terry was a boy the best. Specifically, after Connie developed into a valued friend and became somewhat less of an unfortunate racist stereotype, but before Connie and Terry and Pat Ryan all went their separate ways.
Those old strips offer a really interesting look at the culture of the 1940s. Like when Pat Ryan was going to be forcibly married to a Chinese peasant woman, who would be "a millstone around his neck for the rest of his life." Because, you know, marriages between unwilling parties conducted at gunpoint by bandits were apparently both legal and binding back then, so long as a Christian clergyman officiated.