Dick Tracy: The Early Years #3

Blackthorne's 1988 collection brings Chester Gould's celebrated strip-work to the page in handsome form, reproducing the 1931 original newspaper strips with all their crisp, angular charm intact. The cover showcases a striking blue-tinted montage of Dick Tracy at various angles alongside an inset strip panel — Tracy greeting a Mr. Trueheart in a delicatessen — that gives a genuine taste of Gould's clean, expressive linework and period atmosphere. Colorist Shel Dorf complements Gould's art beautifully, and the "origin story" badge makes plain that this Book 1 is where Tracy's world begins.