On Oct. 4, 1931 Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy launched with the strip above. To commemorate the birthday of my personal favorite strip of all time, I am gathering some of the pieces I have written around Dick Tracy over the last couple of years.
Looking at the Finale of the Strip in 1977
The Many Wild Deaths of Tracy Villains
The Perennial Conservatism of Dick Tracy
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