The Celebrated Cases Of Dick Tracy: 1931-1951
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of the graphic novel, one square-jawed detective redefined American popular culture — and The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy: 1931-1951 presents the definitive anthology of that legacy, collecting twenty years of Chester Gould's groundbreaking comic strip in a single, landmark volume. Edited by Herb Galewitz and introduced by the legendary mystery writer Ellery Queen, this collection chronicles the relentless crime-fighting crusades of Dick Tracy as he faces off against a rogues' gallery of memorably grotesque villains — from Flattop to The Blank — across the gritty, Depression-era streets of an unnamed American city. Gould's strip was never merely entertainment; it was a cultural provocation, presenting violence, consequence, and moral certainty in a visual idiom that was wholly new to newspaper readers of the era. Gould's bold, expressionistic artwork and razor-sharp dialogue established a visual grammar that would influence generations of cartoonists, filmmakers, and crime writers, cementing Dick Tracy as one of the towering achievements of the American comics form. This anthology stands as an essential document of 20th-century popular art, capturing the anxieties and aspirations of a nation caught between the Depression and the dawn of the Cold War. For collectors, historians, and lovers of sequential art alike, this volume poses a tantalising question: in a world of escalating crime and moral ambiguity, what does it truly cost to be the good guy?
Author: Chester Gould
Format: Hardback
Genre: Cartoons & comic strips
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Long before the age of the graphic novel, one square-jawed detective redefined American popular culture — and The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy: 1931-1951 presents the definitive anthology of that legacy, collecting twenty years of Chester Gould's groundbreaking comic strip in a single, landmark volume. Edited by Herb Galewitz and introduced by the legendary mystery writer Ellery Queen, this collection chronicles the relentless crime-fighting crusades of Dick Tracy as he faces off against a rogues' gallery of memorably grotesque villains — from Flattop to The Blank — across the gritty, Depression-era streets of an unnamed American city. Gould's strip was never merely entertainment; it was a cultural provocation, presenting violence, consequence, and moral certainty in a visual idiom that was wholly new to newspaper readers of the era. Gould's bold, expressionistic artwork and razor-sharp dialogue established a visual grammar that would influence generations of cartoonists, filmmakers, and crime writers, cementing Dick Tracy as one of the towering achievements of the American comics form. This anthology stands as an essential document of 20th-century popular art, capturing the anxieties and aspirations of a nation caught between the Depression and the dawn of the Cold War. For collectors, historians, and lovers of sequential art alike, this volume poses a tantalising question: in a world of escalating crime and moral ambiguity, what does it truly cost to be the good guy?