Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 9 - Hardcover

Gould, Chester

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1600105327 ISBN 13: 9781600105326

Publisher: IDW Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

• Chester Gould's fertile imagination continues at a breakneck pace, as he introduces The Brow, Flattop, Shaky, Breathless Mahoney, Measles, Gravel Gertie, B.O. Plenty, and the Summer Sisters!
• Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, and containing all daily and Sunday comic strips from March 23, 1944 through September 19, 1945, this volume features an introduction by Max Allan Collins, and includes a special feature by Jeff Kersten of the Dick Tracy Museum about the famous radio program, "Dick Tracy in B-Flat," starring Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope!

-The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time.” - Scoop

About this title

About the Author:

Chester Gould (1900–1985) was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, the son of a newspaperman and grandson of a circuit-riding preacher. He attended Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) before transferring to Northwestern University in Chicago, from which he graduated in 1923. He produced the minor comic strips Fillum Fables and The Radio Catts before striking it big with Dick Tracy in 1931. Originally titled Plainclothes Tracy, the rechristened strip became one of the most successful and lauded comic strips of all time, as well as a media and merchandising sensation. He was twice accorded the “Cartoonist of the Year” Reuben Award by his peers. Gould continued to write and illustrate Dick Tracy until his retirement in 1977.

From Booklist:

These 1944–45 newspaper strips open with the demise of Flattop, perhaps the most notorious of Tracy’s trademark villains, and introduce such other grotesque miscreants as the Brow, Shakey, and Breathless Mahoney (Madonna in the 1990 movie). Far more significant, though, are the first appearances of two characters who would remain long-standing members of the strip’s supporting cast: redneck farmers “B. O.” Plenty and Gravel Gertie. Gould’s distinctively blunt artwork was never more effective than in these wartime installments, which are shockingly violent even by Tracy’s brutal standards. --Gordon Flagg

About this edition

• Publisher: IDW Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1600105327
• ISBN 13: 9781600105326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264