Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors.

Also, the Dragon Lady briefly became an ally ... chance to launch his own creator-owned series, and so he left Terry and the Pirates at the end of 1946 and launched Steve Canyon, a strip about ...