Dick Tracy

[EmerKeithDavyJack]

Is anybody following the DICK TRACY syndicated newspaper strip not that Mike and Joe have been on it for a while ?????
Do you think an indie title , basically just reprinting the newspaper strip , could swing ? Even one so purist as to be in black & white on the interiors ( Which , according to Joe , is the " true " version of the dalies . ) ?
Probably not...........

[Ish Kabbible]

Isn't IDW already reprinting them in hardcover? They were already reprinted as comics by Blackthorne in the 80s and 90s

[EmerKeithDavyJack]

...I'm referring to Mike curtis and Joe Staton's present-day version , Ish .
GoComics has it in color , the non-colorized " true " B&Ws are at Comic Strip Nation ( Joe has stated - We're Facebook'd - that he considers the B&Ws dailies the " true " , making it one of few such strips now . )

[MajorHoy]

Well, they use to carry Tracy years ago in the New York Daily News, but it's been ages since he was in the Sunday comics section of that paper. And, I must admit, I haven't gone on-line to read the daily strip. (The one newspaper I read daily doesn't have comic strips.)

I still love a bargain book I got as a kid:

The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy, which, interestingly enough, seemed to have some pre-1940 daily strips in color.

I have been tempted to get

Since Celebrated Cases has Oct. 12 - Nov. 13, 1931 and then skips ahead to 1937 with The Blank.

Does anyone know if the Mike Curtis & Joe Staton run is being collected any time soon?

[Ish Kabbible]

I had no idea that Joe Staton was currently working on Dick Tracy. Good for him cuz I always liked his work. They should collect it. I havn't read Tracy since the Max Allan Collins days. I have (thru IDW and Blackthorne) the stripes up to the early Moon Maid period and a Max Allan Collins collection and enjoyed them all

[MajorHoy]

I had no idea that Joe Staton was currently working on Dick Tracy. Good for him cuz I always liked his work. They should collect it. I havn't read Tracy since the Max Allan Collins days. I have (thru IDW and Blackthorne) the stripes up to the early Moon Maid period and a Max Allan Collins collection and enjoyed them all

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[rasx]

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Those strips look really good, we definitely need a collection of that.

[graffiX]

I have been tempted to get

Since Celebrated Cases has Oct. 12 - Nov. 13, 1931 and then skips ahead to 1937 with The Blank.

I have been playing with the idea of buying this myself. I think CBR just posted some preview pages of Volume 14, and reading that it brought back some memories. Not that I read DT in the '50s ('80s) but I've always loved DT.

I was going to start with Vol. 1 and then go from there. Anyone have/recommend this?

[MajorHoy]

I have been playing with the idea of buying this myself. I think CBR just posted some preview pages of Volume 14, and reading that it brought back some memories. Not that I read DT in the '50s ('80s) but I've always loved DT.

I was going to start with Vol. 1 and then go from there. Anyone have/recommend this?

Don't know if this will help you decide or not, but here are a couple scans of very early Dick Tracy they had in The Celebrated Cases.





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[Mark_S]

The daily strip has been a delight.

[Bruce Kent]

That's some amazing art.

[graffiX]

Don't know if this will help you decide or not, but here are a couple scans of very early Dick Tracy they had in The Celebrated Cases.





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Wow, great stuff! Thank you so much for taking the time to post those scans.

I was curious, does anyone know if an original copy of that October Detroit Mirrior of 1931 exists? I was wondering what something like that would cost. I'm sure if copies DO exist, they are far out of my price range. (The reason I ask is part of my collecting focus is collecting first appearances)

[MajorHoy]

By the way, some references to Batman / Gotham City / Penguin in recent strips:

[Alton]

By the way, some references to Batman / Gotham City / Penguin in recent strips:

I guess I'm reading these threads in reverse order.So this is where you got the idea to merge Tracy/Batman/Gordon.Still say that First Wave sours this idea for me.DC fans won't support it anyway.