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class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>Awards and honors</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Awards_and_honors-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_other_media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_other_media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>In other media</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-In_other_media-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle In other media subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-In_other_media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Radio" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Radio</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li 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For other characters given this name, as well as other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Dick Tracy (disambiguation)">Dick Tracy (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic; background-color: #99C2FF; color: black; padding: 0.25em 1em; font-size: 125%;">Dick Tracy</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Dicktracy1238.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Dicktracy1238.jpg/220px-Dicktracy1238.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="324" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Dicktracy1238.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="260" data-file-height="383" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Chester Gould's Dick Tracy vs. "the Blank" (January 2, 1938)</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Author(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Chester_Gould" title="Chester Gould">Chester Gould</a><br />(original)<br /><a href="/wiki/Mike_Curtis_(writer)" title="Mike Curtis (writer)">Mike Curtis</a><br />(current writer)<br />Charles Ettinger<br />(current artist)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://tribunecontentagency.com/premium-content/comics/dick-tracy/">https://tribunecontentagency.com/premium-content/comics/dick-tracy/</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status/schedule</th><td class="infobox-data">Running</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch date</th><td class="infobox-data">October 4, 1931</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Print_syndication#Comic_strip_syndication" title="Print syndication">Syndicate(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tribune_Content_Agency" title="Tribune Content Agency">Tribune Content Agency</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genre(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Action-adventure_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Action-adventure fiction">Action-adventure</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crime_fiction" title="Crime fiction">crime</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Dick Tracy</b></i> is an American comic strip featuring <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(character)" title="Dick Tracy (character)">Dick Tracy</a>, a tough and intelligent police detective created by <a href="/wiki/Chester_Gould" title="Chester Gould">Chester Gould</a>. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the <i><a href="/wiki/Detroit_Mirror" title="Detroit Mirror">Detroit Mirror</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-ME_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ME-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was distributed by the <a href="/wiki/Tribune_Media_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribune Media Services">Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate</a>. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977,<sup id="cite_ref-ME_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ME-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and various artists and writers have continued it. </p><p>Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of films, including <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1990 film)"><i>Dick Tracy</i></a> (1990) in which <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> played the lead. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Tom_De_Haven" title="Tom De Haven">Tom De Haven</a> praised Gould's <i>Dick Tracy</i> as an "outrageously funny American Gothic", while Brian Walker described it as a "ghoulishly entertaining creation" which had "gripping stories filled with violence and pathos".<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bw_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comic_strip">Comic strip</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Comic strip"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Creation_and_early_years">Creation and early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Creation and early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Basing the character on U.S. federal agent <a href="/wiki/Eliot_Ness" title="Eliot Ness">Eliot Ness</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="Source provides no substantiation for claimed connection to Dick Tracy. Primary source reference from Tracy creator Chester Gould needed. (November 2021)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> Gould drafted an idea for a detective named "Plainclothes Tracy" and sent it to <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Medill_Patterson" title="Joseph Medill Patterson">Joseph Medill Patterson</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Tribune_Content_Agency" title="Tribune Content Agency">Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate</a>. 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 <i>Dick Tracy</i> was first published on October 4, 1931. The strip was instantly popular and was soon appearing in newspapers across the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-bw_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The strip's popularity also resulted in the creation of numerous <i>Dick Tracy</i> merchandise, including novelizations, toys, and games. In April 1937, a poll of adult comic strip readers in <i><a href="/wiki/Fortune_(magazine)" title="Fortune (magazine)">Fortune</a></i> voted <i>Dick Tracy</i> their third favorite comic strip after <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie" title="Little Orphan Annie">Little Orphan Annie</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Popeye" title="Popeye">Popeye</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-bw_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <i>Dick Tracy</i> was also attacked by some journalists as being too violent, a criticism that would dog Gould throughout his time on the strip.<sup id="cite_ref-bw_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bw-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evolution_of_the_strip">Evolution of the strip</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Evolution of the strip"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="WristRadio"></span> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg/170px-Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="214" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/95/Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg/255px-Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/95/Dick_Tracy_and_2-Way_Wrist_Radio.jpg 2x" data-file-width="281" data-file-height="354" /></a><figcaption>Dick Tracy and the famous 2-Way Wrist Radio.</figcaption></figure> <p>On January 13, 1946,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Martin_Cooper_(inventor)" title="Martin Cooper (inventor)">Martin Cooper</a>'s invention of the mobile phone and may have inspired later <a href="/wiki/Smartwatch" title="Smartwatch">smartwatches</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The two-Way Wrist Radio was upgraded to a two-Way Wrist TV in 1964.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This development also led to the introduction of an important supporting character, Diet Smith, an eccentric industrialist who financed the development of this equipment. </p><p>In late 1948, a botched security detail led to the death of the semi-regular character Brilliant, the <a href="/wiki/Blindness" class="mw-redirect" title="Blindness">blind</a> inventor of the Two-Way Wrist Radio (among other devices) whereupon Chief Brandon, Dick Tracy's superior on the police force and a presence in the strip since 1931, resigned in shame and Pat Patton was promoted to police chief in Brandon's place on Tracy's recommendation after declining promotion himself, previously having been Tracy's buffoonish partner. A new character was introduced in December of 1948 named Sam Catchem to take Patton's place as Tracy's sidekick.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_1950s">The 1950s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The 1950s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Dyke_Dick_Tracy.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Spike_Dyke_Dick_Tracy.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="183" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="183" /></a><figcaption>In 1949, <a href="/wiki/Spike_Jones" title="Spike Jones">Spike Jones</a> was caricatured in the <i>Dick Tracy</i> dailies as Spike Dyke</figcaption></figure> <p>Gould introduced topical story lines about television, <a href="/wiki/Juvenile_delinquency" title="Juvenile delinquency">juvenile delinquency</a>, <a href="/wiki/Police_corruption" title="Police corruption">graft</a>, <a href="/wiki/Organized_crime" title="Organized crime">organized crime</a>, and other developments in American life during the 1950s; elements of <a href="/wiki/Soap_opera" title="Soap opera">soap opera</a> depicted 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. </p><p>Gould incurred some controversy when he had Tracy live in an unaccountably ostentatious manner on a police officer's salary, and he responded with a story wherein Tracy was accused of corruption and had to explain the origin of his possessions in detail. In his book-length examination of the strip, <i>Dick Tracy – The Official Biography</i>, Jay Maeder suggested that Gould's critics were unsatisfied by his explanation. Nevertheless, the controversy eventually faded, and the cartoonist reduced exposure to Tracy's home life. </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dicktracy10121941.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Dicktracy10121941.jpg" decoding="async" width="281" height="354" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="281" data-file-height="354" /></a><figcaption>Chester Gould's Dick Tracy vs. Duke (October 12, 1941)</figcaption></figure> <p>Tracy's cases generally incriminated independent operators rather than organized crime—with a few exceptions, such as <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_%22Big_Boy%22_Caprice" title="Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice">Big Boy</a>, a fictionalized version of <a href="/wiki/Al_Capone" title="Al Capone">Al Capone</a> and the strip's first villain. Tracy contended with a series of big-time mobsters in the 1950s, such as the King, George "Mr. Crime" Alpha, Odds Zonn, and Willie "The Fifth" Millyun, after events like the <a href="/wiki/Kefauver_Hearings" class="mw-redirect" title="Kefauver Hearings">Kefauver Hearings</a>. As Tess faded into the background, Tracy took, as his assistant, the rookie policewoman Lizz Worthington, a photographer who becomes a highly capable police officer, which was a rare female character type for its time. </p><p>From 1956 to 1964, the <i>Dick Tracy</i> Sunday page was accompanied by a <a href="/wiki/Topper_(comic_strip)" title="Topper (comic strip)">topper</a> humor strip called <i>The Gravies</i> and drawn by Gould and his assistants. </p><p>The 1950s are often considered the strip's artistic and commercial prime, which is thought to come to an end with the 1959 story with the villains The Fifth and his colleague, Flyface. In that story, The Fifth was Gould's criticism of the constitutional <a href="/wiki/Right_to_silence" title="Right to silence">right to silence</a> with the gangster invoking that right for any question, which his cohort and legal representation, Flyface, was a caricature of lawyers as a repellent man constantly swarmed by flies as was most of his family as well. In that story, Gould's creative weaknesses began to become more obvious with his vitriolic overlong condemnation of the <a href="/wiki/Rights_of_the_accused" class="mw-redirect" title="Rights of the accused">rights of the accused</a> and any new restraint on police practices no matter how justified, while his grotesque style for his villain characters began to alienate contemporary readers enough to prompt newspapers to drop the strip.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Space_period">Space period</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Space period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As technology progressed, the methods that Tracy and the police used to track and capture criminals took the form of increasingly fanciful <a href="/wiki/Atom" title="Atom">atomic</a>-powered gadgets developed by Diet Smith Industries. This eventually led to the 1960s advent of the Space Coupe, a spacecraft with a magnetic propulsion system. This marked the beginning of the strip's "Space Period," which saw Tracy and friends having adventures on the Moon and meeting <a href="/wiki/Moon_Maid_(comics)" title="Moon Maid (comics)">Moon Maid</a>, the daughter of the leader of a race of humanoid people living in "Moon Valley" in 1964. After an eventual sharing of technological information, Moon technology became standard issue on Tracy's police force, including air cars, flying cylindrical vehicles. The villains became even more exaggerated in power, resulting in an escalating series of stories that no longer resembled the urban crime drama roots of the strip. During this period, Tracy met famed cartoonist Chet Jade, creator of the comic strip <i>Sawdust</i>, in which the only characters are talking dots. </p><p>One of the new characters, Mr. Intro, was only manifested as a disembodied voice. His goal was world domination in the vein of a <a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a> villain. Tracy eventually used an atomic laser beam to annihilate Intro and his island base. </p><p>Junior married Moon Maid in October 1964. Their daughter Honey Moon Tracy had antennae and magnetic hands. In the spring of 1969, Tracy was offered the post of Chief of Police in Moon Valley. However, he ended up back on Earth when the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a> mission in 1969 showed that the moon was barren of all life. Many of the accoutrements of the space period stories remained for many years afterward, such as the Space Coupe and much of the high-tech gadgetry. Moon Maid receded from the storyline. </p><p>The stories of this period took an increasingly condemnatory tone pertaining to contemporary court decisions concerning the <a href="/wiki/Rights_of_the_accused" class="mw-redirect" title="Rights of the accused">rights of the accused</a>, which often involved Tracy being frustrated by legal technicalities. For example, having caught a gang of diamond thieves red-handed, Tracy was forced to let them walk because he could not <i>prove</i> beyond a reasonable doubt that the diamonds were stolen. As he saw the thieves get off without penalty, Tracy was heard to grumble, "Yes, under today's interpretation of the laws, it seems it's the police who are handcuffed!" </p><p>The strip was criticized for advocating violence. For instance, Moon Maid, incensed at a woman being attacked by a criminal and no one helping her in an obvious reference of the <a href="/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese" title="Murder of Kitty Genovese">Murder of Kitty Genovese</a>, becomes a mysterious murderous vigilante to Dick Tracy's open approval in violation of his profession's ethics<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1968. On June 7 — the day after Senator <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Robert F. Kennedy">Robert F. Kennedy</a> was killed by an assassin — the strip's final panel announced, "Violence is golden, when it's used to put down evil." The strip was obviously prepared weeks before the assassination, but the timing of the strip's publication attracted negative attention. Some newspapers dropped the strip as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1960 to 1974, the strip's newspaper coverage dropped from 550 to roughly 375<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1970s">1970s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1970s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tracydickmarch870.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a3/Tracydickmarch870.jpg" decoding="async" width="287" height="346" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="287" data-file-height="346" /></a><figcaption>Color guide for <i>Dick Tracy</i> (March 8, 1970)</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1970s, Gould modernized Tracy by giving him a longer hairstyle and a <a href="/wiki/Mustache" class="mw-redirect" title="Mustache">mustache</a> and added a <a href="/wiki/Hippie" title="Hippie">hippie</a> <a href="/wiki/Sidekick" title="Sidekick">sidekick</a>, Groovy Grove, to appeal to young audiences. Groovy's first appearance in print, as it happened, occurred during the same week as the <a href="/wiki/Kent_State_shootings" title="Kent State shootings">Kent State shootings</a>. Groovy remained with the strip on and off until his death in 1984. </p><p>Shortly before his retirement, Gould drew a strip in which Sam, Lizz, and Groovy held Tracy down to shave off his mustache. </p><p>At this time, the standard publication size and space of newspaper comics was sharply reduced; for example, the <i>Dick Tracy</i> <a href="/wiki/Sunday_strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday strip">Sunday strip</a>, which had traditionally been a full-page episode containing 12 panels, was cut in size to a half-page format that offered, at most, eight panels—these new restrictions created challenges for all comic artists. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plenty_family">Plenty family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Plenty family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Plenty family was a group of goofy <a href="/wiki/Redneck_(stereotype)" class="mw-redirect" title="Redneck (stereotype)">redneck</a> yokels headed by the former villain Bob Oscar ("B.O."), along with Gertrude ("Gravel Gertie") Plenty. Gravel Gertie was introduced as the unwitting dupe of the villain the Brow, who was on the run from Dick Tracy. The family provided a humorous counterpoint to Tracy's adventures. The Plenty sub-story was decades long and saw Sparkle Plenty grow from an infant to a young married lady, eventually becoming a beautiful fashion model. Sparkle Plenty's 30 May 1947 birth became a significant mainstream media event, with spinoff merchandising and magazine coverage.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Plenty family appeared with Tracy in a story that occurred in a bank, where "B.O." found a way to prevent thieves from snatching an envelope of money from a counter. </p><p>In the 24 April 2011 strip, B.O. and Gertie had a second child, Attitude,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a boy who is as ugly as Sparkle is beautiful. His face has yet to be shown. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crimestoppers'_Textbook"><span id="Crimestoppers.27_Textbook"></span>Crimestoppers' Textbook</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Crimestoppers' Textbook"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Beginning September 11, 1949, the Sunday strip included a frame devoted to a page from the "Crimestoppers' Textbook", a series of handy illustrated hints for the amateur crime-fighter.<sup id="cite_ref-Holtz_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Holtz-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This was named after a short-lived youth group seen in the strip during the late 1940s, led by Junior Tracy, called "Dick Tracy's Crimestoppers." This feature ended when Gould retired from the strip in 1977, but Max Allan Collins reinstated it, and it is still part of the strip. 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The following Monday, <i>Dick Tracy</i> was taken over by <a href="/wiki/Max_Allan_Collins" title="Max Allan Collins">Max Allan Collins</a> and longtime Gould assistant <a href="/wiki/Rick_Fletcher" title="Rick Fletcher">Rick Fletcher</a>. Gould's name remained in the byline for a few years after his retirement as a story consultant. </p><p>In one of Collins' first stories as the strip's writer, the gangster known as <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_%22Big_Boy%22_Caprice" title="Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice">"Big Boy"</a> learned that he was dying and had less than a year to live. Big Boy was still seeking revenge on Tracy, who had sent him up the river to prison,?and he wanted to live just long enough to see Tracy's death. He put out an open $1 million contract on Tracy worth, knowing that every small-time hood in the city would take a crack at the famous cop for that amount of money. One of the would-be collectors rigged Tracy's car to explode, but inadvertently killed Moon Maid instead of Tracy in the explosion. A funeral strip for Moon Maid explicitly stated that this officially severed all ties between Earth and the Moon in the strip,<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> thus eliminating the last remnants of the Space Period. Honeymoon received a new hairstyle that covered her antennae and she was ultimately phased out of the strip. Junior later married Sparkle Plenty (the daughter of B.O. and 'Gravel' Gertie Plenty), and they had a daughter named Sparkle Plenty Jr. Sparkle had been divorced by her cartoonist husband Vera Aldid, who was thus also removed from the cast. Collins felt that their original marriages were a mistake on Gould's part. In the 1990s, Tracy's son Joseph Flintheart Tracy took on a role similar to Junior's in the earlier strips. </p><p>In addition, Collins removed other Gould creations of the 1960s and 1970s (including Groovy Grove, who was gravely wounded in the line of duty and later died in the hospital; Lizz married him before his death). On a more philosophical level, Collins took a generally less cynical view of the <a href="/wiki/Justice_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice system">justice system</a> than Gould; Tracy came to accept its limitations and requirements as a normal part of the process which he could manage. Extreme technology was phased out, such as the Space Coupe, in favor of more realistic advanced tools such as the Two-Way Wrist Computer in 1987. </p><p>New semi-regular characters introduced by Collins and Fletcher included: Dr. Will Carver, a <a href="/wiki/Plastic_surgery" title="Plastic surgery">plastic surgeon</a> with underworld ties who often worked on known felons; Wendy Wichel, a smarmy newspaper reporter/editorialist with a strong anti-Tracy bias in her articles; and Lee Ebony, an African-American female detective. Vitamin Flintheart reappeared occasionally as a comic-relief figure, the aged ham actor created by Gould in 1944 who had not been seen in the strip for almost three decades. The Plenty family (B.O., Gravel Gertie, and Sparkle) were also brought back as semi-regulars. </p><p>Original villains seen during this period included Angeltop (the revenge-seeking, <a href="/wiki/Psychopathic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychopathic">psychopathic</a> daughter of the slain Flattop), Torcher (whose scheme was arson-for-profit), and Splitscreen (a video pirate). Collins brought back at least one "classic" Gould villain or revenge-seeking family member per year. The revived Gould villains were often provided with full names and marriages, as well as children, and other family connections were developed, bringing more humanity to many of the originally grotesque brutes. "Flattop", particularly, had a number of relatives, all with his characteristic head structure and facial attributes, who turned up one by one to avenge their ancestor on Tracy. </p><p>Rick Fletcher died in 1983 and was succeeded by editorial cartoonist <a href="/wiki/Dick_Locher" title="Dick Locher">Dick Locher</a>, who had assisted Gould on the strip in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Locher was assisted by his son John, who died in 1986. </p><p>Max Allan Collins was fired from the strip in 1992, following a financial reorganization of their comic strip holdings, and <i>Tribune</i> staff writer and columnist <a href="/wiki/Mike_Kilian" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Kilian">Mike Kilian</a> took over the writing. Kilian continued until his death on October 27, 2005. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s">2000s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 2000s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dick Locher was both author and artist for over three years, beginning on January 9, 2006. On March 16, 2009, Jim Brozman began collaborating with Locher, taking over the drawing duties while Locher continued to write the strip.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2005, Tracy was a guest at Blondie and Dagwood's 75th anniversary party in the comic strip <i><a href="/wiki/Blondie_(comic_strip)" title="Blondie (comic strip)">Blondie</a></i>. Later, Dick Tracy appeared in the comic strip <i><a href="/wiki/Gasoline_Alley_(comic_strip)" title="Gasoline Alley (comic strip)">Gasoline Alley</a></i>. </p><p>On January 19, 2011, <a href="/wiki/Tribune_Media_Services" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribune Media Services">Tribune Media Services</a> announced that Locher was retiring from the strip and handing the reins to artist <a href="/wiki/Joe_Staton" title="Joe Staton">Joe Staton</a> and writer <a href="/wiki/Mike_Curtis_(writer)" title="Mike Curtis (writer)">Mike Curtis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new creative team has previously worked together on <i><a href="/wiki/Scooby-Doo" title="Scooby-Doo">Scooby-Doo</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Richie_Rich_(comics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Richie Rich (comics)">Richie Rich</a></i>, and<i> <a href="/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost" title="Casper the Friendly Ghost">Casper the Friendly Ghost</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their first Dick Tracy strip was published March 14, 2011. Until Staton's retirement in October 2021, Staton and Curtis were assisted by Shelley Pleger, who inked and lettered Staton's drawings, along with Shane Fisher, who provides the coloring on the Sunday strips. After Staton's retirement, Pleger took over his artist duties, too, having previously substituted for him in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pleger was in turn succeeded by Charles Ettinger in February 2024. Chicago-area police sergeant Jim Doherty provided "Crimestopper" captions for the Sunday strips and acted as the feature's <a href="/wiki/Technical_advisor" title="Technical advisor">technical advisor</a>. Doherty also introduced a new feature, "Tracy's Hall of Fame" (which replaces the "Crimestopper" panel approximately once each month), in which a real-life police officer is profiled and honored. Doherty was replaced in 2016 by police lieutenant Walter Reimer, who introduced the "First Responders Roll of Honor", which honors real-life police officers, firefighters, and paramedics who died on duty. </p><p>Staton and Curtis reintroduced many of the characters of the ‘40s through the ‘60s, including a second Mr. Crime and a reformed Mole, while introducing more deformed and grotesque villains such as Abner Kadaver, Panda, and the Jumbler. They also brought back all the gadgets and plot elements of the 1960s space era, starting in early 2013, although the reintroduced Moon Maid is not the same as the original; rather, she is a human genetically modified to resemble the original Moon Maid and, thus, is christened Mysta Chimera and placed under Diet Smith's care. They have also done crossovers, with cameos from <i><a href="/wiki/Popeye" title="Popeye">Popeye</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Brenda_Starr,_Reporter" title="Brenda Starr, Reporter">Brenda Starr, Reporter</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Funky_Winkerbean" title="Funky Winkerbean">Funky Winkerbean</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Fearless_Fosdick" title="Fearless Fosdick">Fearless Fosdick</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Spirit_(comics_character)" title="Spirit (comics character)">The Spirit</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Hornet" class="mw-redirect" title="The Green Hornet">The Green Hornet</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/For_Better_or_For_Worse" title="For Better or For Worse">For Better or For Worse</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Friday_Foster" title="Friday Foster">Friday Foster</a></i>, and several long sequences involving <i><a href="/wiki/Little_Orphan_Annie" title="Little Orphan Annie">Little Orphan Annie</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Chester Gould won the <a href="/wiki/Reuben_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Reuben Award">Reuben Award</a> for the strip in 1959 and 1977. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mystery_Writers_of_America" title="Mystery Writers of America">Mystery Writers of America</a> honored Gould and his work with a Special <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Edgar Award">Edgar Award</a> in 1980. This was the first time MWA ever honored a comic strip. </p><p>In 1995, the strip was one of 20 included in the <a href="/wiki/Comic_Strip_Classics" title="Comic Strip Classics">Comic Strip Classics</a> series of commemorative postage stamps and postcards.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 2, 2011, the <a href="/wiki/Tennessee_Senate" title="Tennessee Senate">Tennessee Senate</a> passed Resolution 30, congratulating Mike Curtis and Joe Staton on their professional accomplishments, including <i>Dick Tracy</i>. </p><p>On September 7, 2013, at the <a href="/wiki/Baltimore_Comic-Con" title="Baltimore Comic-Con">Baltimore Comics Convention</a>, <i>Dick Tracy</i> was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Harvey Award">Harvey</a> in the "Best Syndicated Strip or Panel" category. <i>Tracy</i> was simultaneously the oldest continually running strip and the first adventure strip ever to win the Harvey Award in this category.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 6, 2014, <i>Tracy</i> was awarded a second Harvey Award in the newspaper strip category, becoming one of only three strips to win in this category in consecutive years. On September 26, 2015, <i>Tracy</i> won a third Harvey in the same category, becoming one of only three strips to win in three consecutive years. </p><p>On November 6, 2016, at their panel at Akron Comicon, Mike Curtis and Joe Staton were each presented with an Akron Comicon Excellence Award. The inscription on the plaques reads: "2016 AKRON COMICON EXCELLENCE AWARD PRESENTED TO MIKE CURTIS AND JOE STATON FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING NEWSPAPER STRIPS IN THE HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER COMICS!"<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_other_media">In other media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: In other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Radio">Radio</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Radio"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(radio_series)" title="Dick Tracy (radio series)">Dick Tracy (radio series)</a></div> <p><i>Dick Tracy</i> 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, <a href="/wiki/Ned_Wever" title="Ned Wever">Ned Wever</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matt_Crowley" title="Matt Crowley">Matt Crowley</a>. The early shows all had 15-minute episodes. </p><p>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 McClintock doing the sound effects. NBC's weekday afternoon run from January 3, 1938, to April 28, 1939, had sound effects by Keene Crockett and was sponsored by Quaker Oats, which brought <i>Dick Tracy</i> into primetime (Saturdays at 7 pm and, briefly, Mondays at 8 pm) with 30-minute episodes from April 29, 1939, to September 30, 1939. The series returned to 15-minute episodes on the ABC Blue Network from March 15, 1943, to July 16, 1948, sponsored by <a href="/wiki/Tootsie_Roll" title="Tootsie Roll">Tootsie Roll</a>, which used the music theme of "Toot Toot, Tootsie" for its 30-minute Saturday ABC series from October 6, 1945, to June 1, 1946. Sound effects on ABC were supplied by Walt McDonough and Al Finelli. </p><p>On February 15, 1945, <i><a href="/wiki/Command_Performance_(radio_series)" title="Command Performance (radio series)">Command Performance</a></i> broadcast the musical comedy <i>Dick Tracy in B-Flat</i> with <a href="/wiki/Bing_Crosby" title="Bing Crosby">Bing Crosby</a> as Tracy, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> as Flattop, <a href="/wiki/Dinah_Shore" title="Dinah Shore">Dinah Shore</a> as Tess Trueheart, among the cast. Dick Tracy's wedding is repeatedly interrupted as Tracy chases after one villain after another. In the strip, his marriage wasn't until 1950 and his honeymoon was disrupted by his going after <a href="/wiki/List_of_Dick_Tracy_villains#1940s" title="List of Dick Tracy villains">Wormy</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recordings">Recordings</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Jim_Ameche" title="Jim Ameche">Jim Ameche</a> portrayed Tracy in a two-record set recorded by <a href="/wiki/Mercury_Records" title="Mercury Records">Mercury Records</a> in 1947. The record sleeves were illustrated with <a href="/wiki/Sunday_strip" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday strip">Sunday strips</a> reprinted in black-and-white for children to color.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Comic_books">Comic books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Comic books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gould1947.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Gould1947.jpg/170px-Gould1947.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Gould1947.jpg/255px-Gould1947.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Gould1947.jpg 2x" data-file-width="261" data-file-height="382" /></a><figcaption>Chester Gould's cover for 1947 Quaker <a href="/wiki/Puffed_Wheat" class="mw-redirect" title="Puffed Wheat">Puffed Wheat</a> giveaway comic book reprinting early 1940s <i>Dick Tracy</i> strips.</figcaption></figure> <p>Tracy made his first comic book appearance in 1936 as one of the features included in the first issue of <a href="/wiki/Dell_Comics" title="Dell Comics">Dell's</a> <i>Popular Comics</i>. 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 <i>Popular Comics</i> through the publication's 21st issue. </p><p>The first comic book to feature Tracy exclusively was the <i>Dick Tracy Feature Book</i>, published in May 1937 by <a href="/wiki/David_McKay_Publications" title="David McKay Publications">David McKay Publications</a>. McKay's Feature Books were magazines that rotated several popular characters from comics strips through 1938. Three more of McKay's Feature Books starred Tracy in the following months. </p><p>In 1939, Dell started a comic magazine series called "Black and White Comics," essentially identical to McKay's "Feature Books." Six of the 15 issues featured Tracy. In 1941, Dell's "Black and White" series was replaced by the "Large Feature Books," the third issue of which featured Tracy. As with the McKay series, the Dell "Black and White" and "Large Feature" series were abridged reprints of the strip. </p><p>In 1938, <i>Tracy</i> became one of several regular newspaper strips featured in Dell's regular monthly <i>Super Comics</i>, remaining a regular part of that publication until 1948. In 1939, <i>Tracy</i> was the sole feature in the very first issue of Dell's <i><a href="/wiki/Four_Color" title="Four Color">Four-Color Comics</a></i>, which put out more than 1,300 issues starring hundreds of characters between 1939 and 1962. Tracy was featured in seven more <i>Four-Color</i> issues throughout the 1940s. </p><p>Tracy was frequently featured in comic books used as promotional items by various companies. In 1947, for example, Sig Feuchtwanger produced a comic book that was a giveaway prize in boxes of <a href="/wiki/Quaker_Oats_Company" title="Quaker Oats Company">Quaker</a> Puffed Wheat cereal, sponsor of the popular <i>Dick Tracy</i> radio series. </p><p>In January 1948, Dell began the first regular <i>Dick Tracy</i> comic book series, <i>Dick Tracy Monthly</i>. This series ultimately ran for 145 issues, the first 24 of which were published by Dell, after which it was picked up by <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Comics" title="Harvey Comics">Harvey Comics</a>. Continuing the same numbering, Harvey published the series until 1961. As with most previous Tracy comic book incarnations, these were, with the exception of the last few Dell issues which featured original material, slightly abridged and reconfigured reprints of the newspaper strips. </p><p><i>Dick Tracy</i> was revived in 1986 by <a href="/wiki/Blackthorne_Publishing" title="Blackthorne Publishing">Blackthorne Publishing</a> which began as a monthly series (also called <i>Dick Tracy Monthly</i>) but became a weekly one (<i>Dick Tracy Weekly</i>) with issue 25 and lasted 99 issues. <a href="/wiki/The_Walt_Disney_Company" title="The Walt Disney Company">Disney</a> produced a series of three issues as a tie-in for their 1990 film. This miniseries, <i>True Hearts and Tommy Guns</i>, was drawn by <a href="/wiki/Kyle_Baker" title="Kyle Baker">Kyle Baker</a> and edited by <a href="/wiki/Len_Wein" title="Len Wein">Len Wein</a>. The third issue was a direct adaptation of the film. </p><p>In 2018, <a href="/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW Publishing</a> announced a new <i>Dick Tracy</i> comic book by <a href="/wiki/Mike_Allred" title="Mike Allred">Mike Allred</a> (co-writer/cover artist/inker), Lee Allred (co-writer), Rich Tommaso (penciller) and <a href="/wiki/Laura_Allred" title="Laura Allred">Laura Allred</a> (colorist).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Over the years, many reprints of <i>Dick Tracy</i> newspaper strips have been published. Beginning in 2006, <a href="/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW Publishing</a> started the series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Chester_Gould%27s_Dick_Tracy" title="The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy">The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy</a></i>, reprinting the complete strip in hardcover volumes, eventually being done under their <a href="/wiki/The_Library_of_American_Comics" title="The Library of American Comics">The Library of American Comics</a> imprint. The series concluded with the 29th and final volume being released in December 2020. </p><p>Other collections include:<sup id="cite_ref-Hubin_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubin-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>The Exploits of Dick Tracy, Detective: The Case of the Brow</i>. Rosdon, hardcover, 1946.</li> <li><i>The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy: 1931–1951</i>. Chelsea House, hardcover, 1970. - Does not include the Sunday strips</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: His Greatest Cases No. 1 — Pruneface</i>. Gold Medal, paperback, 1975.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: His Greatest Cases No. 2 — Snowflake and Shaky plus The Black Pearl</i>. Gold Medal, paperback, 1975.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: His Greatest Cases No. 3 — Mrs. Pruneface plus Crime, Inc.</i>. Gold Medal, paperback, 1975.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: The Thirties - Tommy Guns and Hard Times</i>. Chelsea House, hardcover, 1978.</li> <li><i>U.S. Classics Series - Dick Tracy: Tracy's Wartime Memories</i>. Ken Pierce Books, paperback, 1986.</li> <li><i>The Complete Max Collins/Rick Fletcher Dick Tracy</i>. Dragon Lady Press, paperback. <ul><li>#1: <i>50th Anniversary Dick Tracy</i>. June 1986.</li> <li>#2: <i>Who Shot Pat Patton?</i>. February 1987.</li> <li>#3: <i>The Ghost of Itchy</i>. August 1987.</li></ul></li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: Meets Angeltop</i>. Berkeley, paperback, 1990.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy #2: Meets the Punks</i>. Berkeley, paperback, 1990.</li> <li><i>The Dick Tracy Casebook: Favorite Adventures 1931-1990</i>. St. Martin's Press, paperback, 1990.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy's Fiendish Foes! A 60th Anniversary Celebration</i>. St. Martin's Press, paperback, 1991.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: Colorful Cases of the 1930s</i>, <a href="/wiki/Sunday_Press_Books" title="Sunday Press Books">Sunday Press Books</a>, hardcover, 2016. <a href="/wiki/ISBN" title="ISBN">ISBN</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-98355-043-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-98355-043-3">978-0-98355-043-3</a></li> <li><i>Dick Tracy: The Collins Casefiles</i>, v1,2,3, Checker Books, 2003–2004.</li></ul> <p>Other editions:<sup id="cite_ref-Hubin_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hubin-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li>The first <a href="/wiki/Big_Little_Book_series" title="Big Little Book series">Big Little Book</a> was a Dick Tracy title and many subsequent ones in the series followed. Some were reprintings of newspaper strips and some alternate between text and original black-and white drawings.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Dick Tracy and the Spider Gang</i>, a novelization of the Republic serial, <a href="/wiki/Big_Little_Book_series" title="Big Little Book series">Big Little Book</a> #1446, the pages alternate between text and black-and-white photos from the movies.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy, Ace Detective</i>. Whitman, hardcover, 1943.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler</i>. Whitman, hardcover, 1945.</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy and the Woo Woo Sisters</i>, Dell, unnumbered paperback with a pictorial back cover but not a <a href="/wiki/Mapback" title="Mapback">mapback</a>, 1947.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Film">Film</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Film_serials">Film serials</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Film serials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Dick Tracy made his film debut in <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(serial)" title="Dick Tracy (serial)">Dick Tracy</a></i> (1937), a 15-chapter <a href="/wiki/Serial_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serial (film)">movie serial</a> by <a href="/wiki/Republic_Pictures" title="Republic Pictures">Republic Pictures</a> starring <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Byrd" title="Ralph Byrd">Ralph Byrd</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DTM-20150218_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DTM-20150218-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Spider Gang was on the loose, tired of Dick Tracy's cunning skills. Through the 15-chapter serial, 15 different cases were solved, all plots by the Spider Gang. Dick Tracy was also in search of his missing brother, Gordon Tracy (<a href="/wiki/Carleton_Young" title="Carleton Young">Carleton Young</a>). The Dick Tracy character proved very popular, and a second serial, <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Returns" title="Dick Tracy Returns">Dick Tracy Returns</a></i>, appeared in 1938 (reissued in 1948). <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy%27s_G-Men" title="Dick Tracy's G-Men">Dick Tracy's G-Men</a></i> was released in 1939 (reissued in 1955). The last was <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_vs._Crime_Inc." class="mw-redirect" title="Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.">Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc.</a></i> in 1941 (reissued as <i>Dick Tracy vs. the Phantom Empire</i> in 1952). </p><p>The sequels were produced under an interpretation of the contract for the first <i>Dick Tracy</i> serial, which gave license for "a series or serial". As a result, Chester Gould received no further money for the sequel serials.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Dick Tracy is portrayed as an <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> agent, or "<a href="/wiki/G-Man_(slang)" class="mw-redirect" title="G-Man (slang)">G-Man</a>", based in California rather than as a detective in the police force of a <a href="/wiki/Midwestern" class="mw-redirect" title="Midwestern">Midwestern</a> city resembling Chicago, and, aside from himself and Junior, no characters from the strip appear in any of the four serials. </p><p>However, comic relief sidekick "Mike McGurk" bears some resemblance to Tracy's partner from the strip, Pat Patton; Tracy's secretary, Gwen Andrews (played by several actresses in the course of the series, including <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Jones_(actor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jennifer Jones (actor)">Jennifer Jones</a> under a variation of her real name, Phyllis Isley), provides the same kind of feminine interest as Tess Trueheart; and FBI Director Clive Anderson (<a href="/wiki/Francis_X._Bushman" title="Francis X. Bushman">Francis X. Bushman</a> and others) is the same kind of avuncular superior as Chief Brandon. </p><p>The first serial, <i>Dick Tracy</i>, is now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Early_feature_films">Early feature films</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Early feature films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Four years after the release of the final Republic serial, Dick Tracy would headline the first of four feature films, produced by <a href="/wiki/RKO_Radio_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="RKO Radio Pictures">RKO Radio Pictures</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1945_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1945 film)">Dick Tracy</a></i> (a.k.a. <i>Dick Tracy, Detective</i>) (1945) was followed by <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_vs._Cueball" title="Dick Tracy vs. Cueball">Dick Tracy vs. Cueball</a></i> in 1946, both with <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Conway" title="Morgan Conway">Morgan Conway</a> as Tracy. Ralph Byrd returned for the last two features, both released in 1947: <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy%27s_Dilemma" title="Dick Tracy's Dilemma">Dick Tracy's Dilemma</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Meets_Gruesome" title="Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome">Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome</a></i>. <i>Gruesome</i> is probably the best known of the four, with the villain portrayed by <a href="/wiki/Boris_Karloff" title="Boris Karloff">Boris Karloff</a>. All four movies had many of the visual features associated with <a href="/wiki/Film_noir" title="Film noir">film noir</a>: dramatic, shadowy photographic compositions, with many exterior scenes filmed at night (at the RKO Encino <a href="/wiki/Movie_ranch" title="Movie ranch">movie ranch</a>). <a href="/wiki/Lyle_Latell" title="Lyle Latell">Lyle Latell</a> co-starred in all four films as Pat Patton. <a href="/wiki/Anne_Jeffreys" title="Anne Jeffreys">Anne Jeffreys</a> played Tess Trueheart in the first two, succeeded by Kay Christopher and finally <a href="/wiki/Anne_Gwynne" title="Anne Gwynne">Anne Gwynne</a>; <a href="/wiki/Ian_Keith" title="Ian Keith">Ian Keith</a> joined the cast as the actor Vitamin Flintheart for two films; Joseph Crehan played Chief Brandon. RKO stocked the films with familiar faces, creating a veritable rogues' gallery of characters: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Mazurki" title="Mike Mazurki">Mike Mazurki</a> as Splitface, <a href="/wiki/Dick_Wessel" title="Dick Wessel">Dick Wessel</a> as Cueball, <a href="/wiki/Esther_Howard" title="Esther Howard">Esther Howard</a> as Filthy Flora, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Lambert_(American_actor)" title="Jack Lambert (American actor)">Jack Lambert</a> as hook-handed villain the Claw; baldheaded, pop-eyed Milton Parsons, mild-mannered <a href="/wiki/Byron_Foulger" title="Byron Foulger">Byron Foulger</a>, dangerous <a href="/wiki/Trevor_Bardette" title="Trevor Bardette">Trevor Bardette</a> and pockmarked, gently sinister <a href="/wiki/Skelton_Knaggs" title="Skelton Knaggs">Skelton Knaggs</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1990_feature_film">1990 feature film</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: 1990 feature film"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1990 film)">Dick Tracy (1990 film)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> produced, directed, co-wrote (uncredited), and starred in the 1990 film <i>Dick Tracy</i>, whose supporting cast includes <a href="/wiki/Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino">Al Pacino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Madonna" title="Madonna">Madonna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glenne_Headly" title="Glenne Headly">Glenne Headly</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Korsmo" title="Charlie Korsmo">Charlie Korsmo</a>. <i>Dick Tracy</i> depicts the detective's romantic relationships with <a href="/wiki/Breathless_Mahoney" title="Breathless Mahoney">Breathless Mahoney</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tess_Trueheart" title="Tess Trueheart">Tess Trueheart</a>, as well as his conflicts with crime boss <a href="/wiki/Alphonse_%22Big_Boy%22_Caprice" title="Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice">Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice</a> and his henchmen. Tracy also begins fostering a young street urchin named Kid. Development of the film began in the early 1980s with <a href="/wiki/Tom_Mankiewicz" title="Tom Mankiewicz">Tom Mankiewicz</a> assigned to write the script. The screenplay was written instead by <a href="/wiki/Jim_Cash" title="Jim Cash">Jim Cash</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jack_Epps_Jr." title="Jack Epps Jr.">Jack Epps Jr.</a>, both of <i><a href="/wiki/Top_Gun" title="Top Gun">Top Gun</a></i> fame. The project also went through directors (<a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Landis" title="John Landis">John Landis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Walter_Hill_(director)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Hill (director)">Walter Hill</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Richard_Benjamin" title="Richard Benjamin">Richard Benjamin</a>) before the arrival of Beatty. It was filmed mainly at <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Studios</a>. <a href="/wiki/Danny_Elfman" title="Danny Elfman">Danny Elfman</a> was hired to compose the score, and the film's music and songs were featured on three separate soundtrack albums. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Filmography">Filmography</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Filmography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Republic_Pictures">Republic Pictures</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Republic Pictures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(serial)" title="Dick Tracy (serial)">Dick Tracy</a></i> (1937, serial, 15 episodes, starring <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Byrd" title="Ralph Byrd">Ralph Byrd</a>) <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(serial)#Release" title="Dick Tracy (serial)"><i>Dick Tracy</i></a> (1937, feature version of the above serial, starring Ralph Byrd)</li></ol></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Returns" title="Dick Tracy Returns">Dick Tracy Returns</a></i> (1938 serial, 15 episodes starring <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Byrd" title="Ralph Byrd">Ralph Byrd</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy%27s_G-Men" title="Dick Tracy's G-Men">Dick Tracy's G-Men</a></i> (1939, serial, 15 episodes, starring Ralph Byrd)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_vs._Crime,_Inc." title="Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.">Dick Tracy vs. Crime, Inc.</a></i>(1941, serial, 15 episodes, starring Ralph Byrd)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="RKO_Radio_Pictures">RKO Radio Pictures</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: RKO Radio Pictures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ol><li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1945_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1945 film)">Dick Tracy</a></i> (1945, film starring <a href="/wiki/Morgan_Conway" title="Morgan Conway">Morgan Conway</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_vs._Cueball" title="Dick Tracy vs. Cueball">Dick Tracy vs. Cueball</a></i> (1946, film starring Morgan Conway)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy%27s_Dilemma" title="Dick Tracy's Dilemma">Dick Tracy's Dilemma</a></i> (1947, film starring Ralph Byrd)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_Meets_Gruesome" title="Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome">Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome</a></i> (1947, film starring Ralph Byrd)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Touchstone_Pictures">Touchstone Pictures</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Touchstone Pictures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1990 film)"><i>Dick Tracy</i></a> (1990, film starring <a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(TV_series)" title="Dick Tracy (TV series)">Dick Tracy</a> (1950–1951) - live action television series starring Ralph Byrd</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Dick_Tracy_Show" title="The Dick Tracy Show">The Dick Tracy Show</a></i> (1961) - animated television series with various voices including <a href="/wiki/Everett_Sloane" title="Everett Sloane">Everett Sloane</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mel_Blanc" title="Mel Blanc">Mel Blanc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Famous_Adventures_of_Mr._Magoo" title="The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo"><i>The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo</i>, "Dick Tracy and the Mob"</a> (1965 animated half-hour TV episode with the voices of Everett Sloane and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Backus" title="Jim Backus">Jim Backus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(TV_pilot)" title="Dick Tracy (TV pilot)"><i>Dick Tracy</i></a> (1967) - television pilot starring <a href="/wiki/Ray_MacDonnell" title="Ray MacDonnell">Ray MacDonnell</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Archie%27s_TV_Funnies" title="Archie's TV Funnies">Archie's TV Funnies</a></i> (1971) - features original Dick Tracy mini-episodes using the classic villains and cast from the strip, more faithful in tone than the earlier animated series</li> <li><i>Dick Tracy Special</i> (2010) - thirty-minute special featuring Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) being interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Maltin" title="Leonard Maltin">Leonard Maltin</a></li> <li><i>Dick Tracy Special - Tracy Zooms In</i> (2023) - twenty-five-minute special featuring a <a href="/wiki/Zoom_(software)" title="Zoom (software)">Zoom</a> conversation between Tracy (Beatty), Maltin, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Mankiewicz" title="Ben Mankiewicz">Ben Mankiewicz</a> and Beatty himself</li></ul> <p>The strip has had limited exposure on television with one early live-action series, two animated series, one unsold pilot that was never picked up, and a proposed TV series currently held up in litigation. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_live_action_series">First live action series</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: First live action series"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(TV_series)" title="Dick Tracy (TV series)">Dick Tracy (TV series)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Byrd" title="Ralph Byrd">Ralph Byrd</a>, who had played the square-jawed sleuth in all four Republic movie serials and two of the RKO feature-length films, reprised his role in a short-lived live action <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(TV_series)" title="Dick Tracy (TV series)">Dick Tracy</a></i> series that ran on ABC from 1950 to 1951. Additional episodes intended for first-run <a href="/wiki/Broadcast_syndication" title="Broadcast syndication">syndication</a> continued to be produced into 1952. Produced by P. K. Palmer, who also wrote many of the scripts, the series often featured Gould-created villains such as <a href="/wiki/Flattop_Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="Flattop Jones">Flattop</a>, Shaky, the Mole, Breathless Mahoney, Heels Beals and Influence, all of whom appeared on film for the first time on this series. Other cast members included Joe Devlin as Sam Catchem, Angela Greene as Tess Tracy (née Trueheart), Martin Dean as Junior, and <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Watkin" title="Pierre Watkin">Pierre Watkin</a> as Chief Patton. Criticized for its violence, the series remained popular. It ended, not in response to criticism, but because of Byrd's unexpected, premature death in 1952. The series was filmed on a low budget, with many long hours and a rushed shooting schedule. Many episodes of this series have been released on various public domain TV detective DVD sets. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Animated_cartoons">Animated cartoons</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Animated cartoons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Dick_Tracy_Show" title="The Dick Tracy Show">The Dick Tracy Show</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dicktracy1961cartoon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/42/Dicktracy1961cartoon.jpg/180px-Dicktracy1961cartoon.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/42/Dicktracy1961cartoon.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="368" /></a><figcaption>DVD release of the 1961 cartoon.</figcaption></figure> <p>The first cartoon series was produced from 1960 to 1961 by <a href="/wiki/United_Productions_of_America" title="United Productions of America">UPA</a>. Tracy employed a series of cartoon-like subordinate flatfoots to fight crime each week, contacting them on his two-way wrist radio. <a href="/wiki/Everett_Sloane" title="Everett Sloane">Everett Sloane</a> voiced Tracy and supporting characters and villains were voiced by Jerry Hausner, <a href="/wiki/Mel_Blanc" title="Mel Blanc">Mel Blanc</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benny_Rubin" title="Benny Rubin">Benny Rubin</a>, Johnny Coons, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Frees" title="Paul Frees">Paul Frees</a> and others. These subordinates included "Go-Go" Gomez, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Jitsu_(Dick_Tracy)" title="Joe Jitsu (Dick Tracy)">Joe Jitsu</a>, Hemlock Holmes and the Retouchables, and Officer Heap O'Calorie. 130 five-minute cartoons were designed and packaged for syndication, usually intended for local children's shows. </p><p>UPA was also the production company behind the <a href="/wiki/Mr._Magoo" title="Mr. Magoo">Mr. Magoo</a> cartoons, so it was possible for them to arrange a meeting between Tracy and Magoo in a 1965 episode of the season-long TV series <i><a href="/wiki/The_Famous_Adventures_of_Mr._Magoo" title="The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo">The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo</a></i>. In the episode "Dick Tracy and the Mob", Tracy persuades Magoo (a well-known actor in the context of the <i>Famous Adventures</i> series) to impersonate an international hit man named Squinty Eyes, who he resembles, and infiltrate a gang of criminals made up of Flattop, Pruneface, Itchy, Mumbles and others. Unlike the earlier animated Tracy shorts, this longer episode was played relatively straight, with Tracy getting much more screen time. Pitting Tracy against a coalition of several of his foes was adopted more than two decades later in the <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(1990_film)" title="Dick Tracy (1990 film)">1990 film</a>. </p><p>A second cartoon series was produced in 1971 and was a feature in <i><a href="/wiki/Archie%27s_TV_Funnies" title="Archie's TV Funnies">Archie's TV Funnies</a></i>, produced by <a href="/wiki/Filmation" title="Filmation">Filmation</a>. It adhered more closely to the comic strip, although it was hampered by cruder animation than the UPA shorts, typical of the studio's production standards. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Live_action_television_pilot">Live action television pilot</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Live action television pilot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(TV_pilot)" title="Dick Tracy (TV pilot)">Dick Tracy (TV pilot)</a></div> <p><a href="/wiki/William_Dozier" title="William Dozier">William Dozier</a> produced a pilot for a live action Dick Tracy series in 1967 starring <a href="/wiki/Ray_MacDonnell" title="Ray MacDonnell">Ray MacDonnell</a> in the title role. (Dozier was the producer responsible for the 1966 <i><a href="/wiki/Batman_(TV_series)" title="Batman (TV series)">Batman</a></i> TV series.) The pilot was "The Plot to Kill NATO", featuring "Special Guest Villain" <a href="/wiki/Victor_Buono" title="Victor Buono">Victor Buono</a> as 'Mr. Memory'. The series was not purchased by either <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> or <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a>. <a href="/wiki/Eve_Plumb" title="Eve Plumb">Eve Plumb</a>, who would later find fame as Jan Brady on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Brady_Bunch" title="The Brady Bunch">The Brady Bunch</a></i>, is credited as Bonnie Braids, who does not appear in the pilot, nor does <a href="/wiki/Davey_Davison" title="Davey Davison">Davey Davison</a> as Tess. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Licensed_products">Licensed products</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Licensed products"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Jo-Jo0736.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jo-Jo0736.jpg/220px-Jo-Jo0736.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="325" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jo-Jo0736.jpg/330px-Jo-Jo0736.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Jo-Jo0736.jpg/440px-Jo-Jo0736.jpg 2x" data-file-width="609" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Advertisement for Dick Tracy Rapid-Fire Tommy Gun</figcaption></figure> <p>In the 1960s, <a href="/wiki/Aurora_Plastics_Corporation" title="Aurora Plastics Corporation">Aurora</a> produced a plastic model kit of Dick Tracy sliding down a fire escape ladder into an alley, in hot pursuit with gun drawn. A Dick Tracy Space Coupe model came next. Both have been reissued by Polar Lights. Also in the market were Mattel's Dick Tracy range of <a href="/wiki/Toy_gun" title="Toy gun">toy guns</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1990, <a href="/wiki/Playmates_Toys" title="Playmates Toys">Playmates Toys</a> released a line of action figures called <i>Dick Tracy: Coppers and Gangsters</i> to coincide with the Dick Tracy movie. The figures were 5" tall, stylized with exaggerated comic looks and was accompanied by many accessories.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two figures in the line had limited availability; Steve the Tramp (called "The Tramp" on the package front) was pulled from the assortment after complaints of portrayal of a homeless person as a criminal. The figure of "The Blank" was added to the assortment well after the film's release to keep the secret of the identity of the character. As a result, only limited quantities of these two figures made it to store shelves. </p><p>Various distinct video games tied in with the film were developed. <a href="/wiki/Titus_Software" class="mw-redirect" title="Titus Software">Titus Software</a> did versions many platforms including Amiga, Commodore and MS-DOS. <i><a href="/wiki/Dick_Tracy_(video_game)" title="Dick Tracy (video game)">Dick Tracy</a></i> is a side scrolling action shooting game. The player controls Dick Tracy through five stages.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Commodore 64 version is infamous for being released in an unfinished state (minimal animation for the main character, missing headlines in the linking screens, flick scrolling), and scored Commodore Format magazine's lowest ever review score of 11%. There were also games made for the <a href="/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System" title="Nintendo Entertainment System">Nintendo Entertainment System</a> (1990), <a href="/wiki/Master_System" title="Master System">Master System</a> (1990), <a href="/wiki/Sega_Genesis" title="Sega Genesis">Sega Genesis</a> (1990), and <a href="/wiki/Game_Boy" title="Game Boy">Game Boy</a> (1991).,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a graphic adventure for MS-DOS and the Amiga. </p><p>In 2009, <a href="/wiki/Shocker_Toys" title="Shocker Toys">Shocker Toys</a> released a <a href="/wiki/Monochromatic" class="mw-redirect" title="Monochromatic">monochromatic</a> Dick Tracy action figure as an exclusive product for <a href="/wiki/San_Diego_Comic-Con" title="San Diego Comic-Con">San Diego Comic-Con</a>. The figure appears in a suit with two-way wrist radio. There was also a variant figure released of Dick Tracy in his signature trench coat and fedora with a <a href="/wiki/Tommy_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Tommy gun">tommy gun</a> accessory.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rights_to_adapt_in_other_media">Rights to adapt in other media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Rights to adapt in other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Media outlets reported a legal battle being waged over rights to the Dick Tracy character. Warren Beatty announced plans to make a sequel to his 1990 movie. At the same time, television producers announced plans for a new <i>Dick Tracy</i> TV series. Both sides claimed that they were the legal owners of the rights to Dick Tracy. In May 2005, Beatty sued the Tribune Company, claiming he has owned the rights to the Dick Tracy character since 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pressure from Beatty led to the cancellation of a proposed collaboration between artist <a href="/wiki/Mike_Oeming" class="mw-redirect" title="Mike Oeming">Mike Oeming</a> and writer <a href="/wiki/Brian_Bendis" class="mw-redirect" title="Brian Bendis">Brian Bendis</a> on a new serialized Dick Tracy comic.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The lawsuit was resolved in Beatty's favor, with a U.S. District judge ruling that Beatty did everything contractually required of him to keep the rights to the character.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Fearless_Fosdick" title="Fearless Fosdick">Fearless Fosdick</a></i> is a long-running parody of Dick Tracy that appeared intermittently as a strip-within-a-strip in <a href="/wiki/Al_Capp" title="Al Capp">Al Capp</a>'s satirical hillbilly comic strip, <i><a href="/wiki/Li%27l_Abner" title="Li'l Abner">Li'l Abner</a></i> (1934–1977).</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Shelton" title="Gilbert Shelton">Gilbert Shelton</a> parodied Dick Tracy as "Tricky Prickears" in his <i><a href="/wiki/Fabulous_Furry_Freak_Brothers" class="mw-redirect" title="Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers">Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers</a></i> comic strips.</li> <li>The artist <a href="/wiki/Jess_Collins" title="Jess Collins">Jess Collins</a> used an <a href="/wiki/X-Acto" title="X-Acto">X-Acto</a> knife and rubber cement to reassemble Gould's strip into <i>Tricky Cad</i> (an anagram of "Dick Tracy"). Gould threatened to sue if the <i>Tricky Cad</i> collages were published.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/United_Productions_of_America" title="United Productions of America">UPA</a> version of Dick Tracy (though already having appeared in the <a href="/wiki/Who_Censored_Roger_Rabbit%3F" title="Who Censored Roger Rabbit?">novel</a>) was scheduled to appear as a cameo in the deleted scene "Acme's Funeral" from the film <i><a href="/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit" title="Who Framed Roger Rabbit">Who Framed Roger Rabbit</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daffy_Duck" title="Daffy Duck">Daffy Duck</a> parodied Dick Tracy as "Duck Twacy" in the 1946 <i><a href="/wiki/Looney_Tunes" title="Looney Tunes">Looney Tunes</a></i> cartoon <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Piggy_Bank_Robbery" title="The Great Piggy Bank Robbery">The Great Piggy Bank Robbery</a></i>.</li> <li>Dick Tracy was parodied by the <a href="/wiki/Adult_animation" title="Adult animation">adult animated</a> <a href="/wiki/Stop_motion" title="Stop motion">stop motion</a> <a href="/wiki/Sketch_comedy" title="Sketch comedy">sketch comedy</a> TV show <i><a href="/wiki/Robot_Chicken" title="Robot Chicken">Robot Chicken</a></i> in the season 3 episode "Rabbits on a Roller Coaster".</li> <li>Dick Tracy was parodied in 1990 in the Season 8 episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Alvin_and_the_Chipmunks_(1983_TV_series)" title="Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983 TV series)">Alvin and the Chipmunks</a></i>, as "Chip Tracy".</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Yellow_Horse" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Yellow Horse">Chief Yellow Horse</a>, the real-life basis for the <i>Dick Tracy</i> character Yellow Pony</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dick_Tracy_villains" title="List of Dick Tracy villains">List of <i>Dick Tracy</i> villains</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_film_serials" title="List of film serials">List of film serials</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dick_Tracy_characters" title="List of Dick Tracy characters">List of <i>Dick Tracy</i> characters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Go_Comics" class="mw-redirect" title="Go Comics">Go Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Worth" title="Mary Worth">Mary Worth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Allied_Publications" class="mw-redirect" title="National Allied Publications">National Allied Publications</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dick_Tracy&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Notes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-ME-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ME_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ME_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">webpage: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.dicktracymuseum.com/timeline-1/">[1]</a>: notes villains and includes short bio of Chester Gould.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">De Haven, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ew.com/article/1990/10/05/your-guide-classic-comic-strips/">Your guide to classic comic-strips</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a></i>. October 5, 1990. Retrieved December 15, 2018.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-bw-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-bw_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bw_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bw_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-bw_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Walker, Brian. <i>The Comics: The Complete Collection</i>. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2011. (pp. 189-191, 226-231, 259, 370) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780810995956" title="Special:BookSources/9780810995956">9780810995956</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.atf.gov/our-history/eliot-ness">"Eliot Ness"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Bureau_of_Alcohol,_Tobacco,_Firearms_and_Explosives" title="Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">September 27,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Eliot+Ness&rft.pub=Bureau+of+Alcohol%2C+Tobacco%2C+Firearms+and+Explosives&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atf.gov%2Four-history%2Feliot-ness&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Garyn G. Roberts, <i>Dick Tracy and American Culture: Morality and Mythology, Text and Context</i> (McFarland, 2003), p. 38</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-dick-tracy-invented-smartwatch-180954506/">"How Dick Tracy Invented the Smartwatch"</a>. <i>Smithsonian Magazine</i>. The Smithsonian Institution. March 9, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Smithsonian+Magazine&rft.atitle=How+Dick+Tracy+Invented+the+Smartwatch&rft.date=2015-03-09&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smithsonianmag.com%2Fsmart-news%2Fhow-dick-tracy-invented-smartwatch-180954506%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://infostory.com/2011/01/24/the-evolution-of-dick-tracys-wristwatch/">"The Evolution of Dick Tracy's Wristwatch"</a>. January 24, 2011.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Evolution+of+Dick+Tracy%27s+Wristwatch&rft.date=2011-01-24&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Finfostory.com%2F2011%2F01%2F24%2Fthe-evolution-of-dick-tracys-wristwatch%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.dicktracymuseum.com/timeline-1">"Timeline"</a>. <i>The Chester Gould Dick Tracy Museum</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 13,</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Chester+Gould+Dick+Tracy+Museum&rft.atitle=Timeline&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dicktracymuseum.com%2Ftimeline-1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaeder1990" class="citation book cs1">Maeder, Jay (1990). <i>Dick Tracy : the Official Biography</i>. Plume. pp. 183–5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dick+Tracy+%3A+the+Official+Biography&rft.pages=183-5&rft.pub=Plume&rft.date=1990&rft.aulast=Maeder&rft.aufirst=Jay&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaeder" class="citation book cs1">Maeder, Jay. pp. 194–5.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.pages=194-5&rft.aulast=Maeder&rft.aufirst=Jay&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Missing or empty <code class="cs1-code">|title=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#citation_missing_title" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWells2014" class="citation book cs1">Wells, John (2014). <i>American Comic Book Chronicles: 1965-1969</i>. TwoMorrows Publishing. p. 221. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1605490557" title="Special:BookSources/978-1605490557"><bdi>978-1605490557</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Comic+Book+Chronicles%3A+1965-1969&rft.pages=221&rft.pub=TwoMorrows+Publishing&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-1605490557&rft.aulast=Wells&rft.aufirst=John&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaeder" class="citation book cs1">Maeder. p. 198.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.pages=198&rft.au=Maeder&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span> <span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment"><code class="cs1-code">{{<a href="/wiki/Template:Cite_book" title="Template:Cite book">cite book</a>}}</code>: </span><span class="cs1-visible-error citation-comment">Missing or empty <code class="cs1-code">|title=</code> (<a href="/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#citation_missing_title" title="Help:CS1 errors">help</a>)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130630083743/http://cartoonician.com/big-deals-comics-highest-profile-moments/">"<span class="cs1-kern-left"></span>"Big Deals: Comics' Highest-Profile Moments," <i>Hogan's Alley</i> #17, 1999"</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cartoonician.com/big-deals-comics-highest-profile-moments/">the original</a> on June 30, 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 15,</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=%22Big+Deals%3A+Comics%27+Highest-Profile+Moments%2C%22+Hogan%27s+Alley+%2317%2C+1999&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fcartoonician.com%2Fbig-deals-comics-highest-profile-moments%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2011/04/24">Dick Tracy comic strip</a> (via GoComics), April 24, 2011. Retrieved October 8, 2012.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Holtz-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Holtz_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHoltz2012" class="citation book cs1">Holtz, Allan (2012). <i>American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide</i>. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. p. 115. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780472117567" title="Special:BookSources/9780472117567"><bdi>9780472117567</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Newspaper+Comics%3A+An+Encyclopedic+Reference+Guide&rft.place=Ann+Arbor&rft.pages=115&rft.pub=The+University+of+Michigan+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=9780472117567&rft.aulast=Holtz&rft.aufirst=Allan&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADick+Tracy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>Dick Tracy</i>, 13 August 1978. Strip reprinted in <i>Dick Tracy – The Official Biography</i> by Jay Maeder, 1990 (color plate #12).</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2009/03/17/jim-brozman-working-with-locher-on-dick-tracy/">Jim Brozman working with Locher on Dick Tracy The Daily Cartoonist</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2011/01/dick-locher-passes-tms-dick-tracy-to-new-artist-writer.html">Chicago Tribune: Dick Locher passes 'Dick Tracy' to new artist, writer</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111025142512/http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2011/01/dick-locher-passes-tms-dick-tracy-to-new-artist-writer.html">Archived</a> October 25, 2011, at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRosenthal2011" class="citation news cs1"><a href="/wiki/Phil_Rosenthal" class="mw-redirect" title="Phil Rosenthal">Rosenthal, Phil</a> (January 19, 2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111025142512/http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2011/01/dick-locher-passes-tms-dick-tracy-to-new-artist-writer.html">"Dick Locher passes TMS' 'Dick Tracy' to new artist, writer"</a>. <i>Tower Ticker</i>. <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2011/01/dick-locher-passes-tms-dick-tracy-to-new-artist-writer.html">the original</a> on October 25, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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