Dick Tracy: The Early Years #1

A wonderful artifact of comics history, this 1987 Blackthorne collection brings Chester Gould's original 1931 Dick Tracy newspaper strips to the bookshelf format, with Shel Dorf adding color to Gould's timeless linework. The cover itself reproduces that classic strip aesthetic beautifully — showing Tracy alongside a cast of fedora-wearing figures, with a deli scene panel featuring a cheerful shopkeeper greeting a customer. Billed as an "origin story," Book 1 of The Early Years is an ideal entry point for anyone wanting to experience Gould's sharp-jawed detective exactly as Depression-era readers first did.