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About Dick Tracy. When crime rears its ugly head, DICK TRACY...
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Creation and early years
Basing the character on U.S. federal agent Eliot Ness,[better source needed] Gould drafted an idea for a detective named "Plainclothes Tracy" and sent it to Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Patterson suggested changing the hero's name to Dick Tracy, and he also put forward an opening storyline in which Tracy joined the police after his girlfriend's father was murdered by robbers. Gould agreed to these ideas, and Dick Tracy was first published on October...
Evolution of the strip
On January 13, 1946, the two-Way Wrist Radio was introduced; it would become one of the strip's most immediately recognizable icons. This radio wristwatch, worn by Tracy and members of the police force, inspired Martin Cooper's invention of the mobile phone and may have inspired later smartwatches. The two-Way Wrist Radio was upgraded to a two-Way Wrist TV in 1964.This development also led to the introduction of an important supporting character, Diet Smith, an eccentric industrialist who fin...
The 1950s
Gould introduced topical story lines about television, juvenile delinquency, graft, organized crime, and other developments in American life during the 1950s; and elements of soap operadepicted Dick, Tess, and Junior (along with the Tracys' baby daughter Bonnie Braids) at home as a family. Depictions of family life alternated with the story's crime drama, as in the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend Model being accidentally killed by her brother. Gould i...
Chester Gould won the Reuben Awardfor the strip in 1959 and 1977. The Mystery Writers of America honored Gould and his work with a Special Edgar Awardin 1980. This was the first time MWA ever honored a comic strip. In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the Comic Strip Classicsseries of commemorative postage stamps and postcards. On May 2, 20...
Radio
Dick Tracy had a long run on radio, from 1934 weekdays on NBC's New England stations to the ABC network in 1948. Bob Burlen was the first radio Tracy in 1934, and others heard in the role during the 1930s and 1940s were Barry Thomson, Ned Wever and Matt Crowley. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes. On CBS, with Sterling Products as sponsor, the serial aired four times a week from February 4, 1935, to July 11, 1935, moving to Mutual from September 30, 1935, to March 24, 1937, with Bill...
Recordings
Jim Ameche portrayed Tracy in a two-record set recorded by Mercury Records in 1947. The record sleeves were illustrated with Sunday stripsreprinted in black-and-white for children to color.
Comic books
Tracy made his first comic book appearance in 1936 as one of the features included in the first issue of Dell's Popular Comics. These were reprints from the newspaper strip, reconfigured to fit the pages of a comic book, as was the case with most Tracy comic book appearances. Tracy remained a regular feature in Popular Comicsthrough the publication's 21st issue. The first comic book to feature Tracy exclusively was the Dick Tracy Feature Book, published in May 1937 by David McKay Publications...
Fearless Fosdick is a long-running parody of Dick Tracy that appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip in Al Capp's satirical hillbilly comic strip, Li'l Abner(1934–1977).Gilbert Shelton parodied Dick Tracy as "Tricky Prickears" in his Fabulous Furry Freak Brotherscomic strips.The artist Jess Collins used an X-Acto knife and rubber cement to reassemble Gould's strip into Tricky Cad (an anagram of "Dick Tracy"). Gould threatened to sue if the Tricky Cadcollages were publi...The UPA version of Dick Tracy (though already having appeared in the novel) was scheduled to appear as a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.List of Dick TracyvillainsList of Dick TracycharactersNotes Bibliography 1. Roberts, Garyn G. (1993). Dick Tracy and American Culture. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-89950-880-4.
Dick Tracy at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archivedfrom the original on September 9, 2015.- Running
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- October 4, 1931
Genere. poliziesco, fantascienza. Dick Tracy è un personaggio immaginario dei fumetti statunitense creato da Chester Gould. Esordì il 4 ottobre 1931 in una serie di fumetti a strisce distribuita dal Chicago Tribune Syndicate e divenne rapidamente una icona della cultura popolare americana contribuendo a stabilire un nuovo standard per i ...
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dick tracy returns in a new ongoing comic book series from mad cave! A new era for the iconic detective starts here, from bestselling and acclaimed authors Alex Segura and Michael Moreci, as an all-new, noir-infused chapter in the Dick Tracy legacy kicks off with superstar artist Geraldo Borges.
2 mag 2024 · Read the Dick Tracy comic strip from May 25, 2024, and check out other Dick Tracy comics by Joe Staton and Mike Curtis.
