 In his biography, "Meanwhile...", Caniff stated that he hated the serial for changing so much of his comic strip, and that "I saw the first chapter and walked out screaming".Young explorer Terry Lee and his grown-up sidekick, Pat Ryan, arrive in the Asian jungles in search of Terry's father, Dr. Herbert Lee.The elder Lee is an archaeologist, and the leader of a scientific expedition seeking evidence of a lost civilization.