Dick Tracy: Colorful Cases of the 1930s

by Chester Gould, Jeff Kersten (Contributor), Peter Maresca (Editor)

In the early 1930s, Chester Gould dramatically altered the comics landscape with a new style of gritty realism torn from Chicago's headlines. With this new kind of storytelling came a new way of coloring comics, a style as bold and vibrant as the stories themselves. Now for the first time, Sunday Press presents Dick Tracy in the original colors and full tabloid size-and just in time for Tracy's 85th birthday. This collection of Sunday newspaper comics from 1931 to 1939 features Gould's most infamous villains of the decade in four complete stories, plus forty more fabulous Sunday pages. Experience the adventures of the world's most famous comic strip detective just as they appeared more than three-quarters of a century ago.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels

168 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2016

About the author

Chester Gould was a U.S. cartoonist and the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977. Gould was known for his use of colorful, often monstrous, villains.

Reviews

[Dan Blackley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great color pages. Book is huge but it is great to read some of the cases in the 30's.

[Charlie Beck · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent look at a class comic strip. Even if you already have the IDW collections, it's fantastic to see the strip in the original size and original colors. Gould was a master, even early on.

The editors select some definitely essential stories, but it's a shame we can't see the entire decade like this.