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Sunday, December 16, 2025

This Day In Arf History: The Dragon Lady Debuts

In 1937, Milton Caniff’s sizzling villainess Dragon Lady debuted today in Terry and the Pirates. She became a pop culture icon, and the term entered the American vocabulary as a term for a tough and domineering seductress.

During WWII the Dragon Lady was a popular image painted on American bombers.

Caniff claimed that Joan Crawford was the visual inspiration for the Dragon Lady.

Check out my new book Clean Cartoonists Dirty Drawings. You’ll see in that tawdry tome a incredible Caniff drawing of the Dragon Lady like you’ve never seen her before—hubba! hubba! The Caniff drawing of the Dragon Lady, alone, is worth the price of the book, it’s so hot! There’s a preview of the book on a special Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings website here.

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