Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy

This book collects the strip from when it was started during the depression, through the war years, and into the early post war. The cast of characters, the story lines, and settings provide insight into an era fading from memory. It's a morality play from a simpler though poorer time the country is nostolgic for. Good and evil are black and white. Innocents are led astray by cold hearted killers, shown the error of their ways, and forgiven. The storys take place in a time during which the US went from facing the greatest hardships it had known to finding itself a superpower. It was physically a different country, heavily industrial, agricultural, without television, linked with railroads instead of interstate highways. Dick Tracy was the prototype of today's tough, smart cops, MacGyver and CSI in a time when a cop had little to rely on besides his own eyes and brain. He always got his man - if he (or she) didn't earn some horrible end first. Crime doesn't pay. It's great fun to read.

I first found this book at a library when I was 13 and could never stop checking it out. This book covers every famous Dick Tracy case with superstar villains such as Mumbles, Flattop, and all the others using the daily and Sunday comic strips. It's great to read along and watch Dick evolve from crude drawings to the now famous two way wrist radio to the two way wrist tv. This book is the topper to any great collection.

This was an outstanding collection of comic strips that made up the career of my favorite crime fighter Dick Tracy.I began reading Dick Tracy comic strips at the age of 5 in the Beaumont Enterprise. Dick Tracy was the embodiment of forces of good crushing the forces of evil.I am now 50 and I still enjoy Dick Tracy. This book is the best of Dick Tracy. You have an earlyhistory of the beginning of Tracy's crime fighting career.Thisbook features some of Tracy's most evil villains.You have the Blank,Mary X,Jerome Trohs and Momma,Little Face Finny,the Mole,B.B. Eyes,88 Keyes,Flattop,the Summer Sisters,the Brow and Gravel Gertie,Breathless Mahoney,B.O. Plenty,Mumbles,and Pear Shape.This is a must buy for the serious Dick Tracy fan.Thisis the finest of Dick Tracy.Read this and you will become a fan of Dick Tracy too.