Four Color #1

Chester Gould's square-jawed detective strides forward in his trademark orange overcoat and fedora, foot raised on a running board as three wary figures crowd behind him in this bold 1939 Dell collection. The bright yellow cover sets a confident, punchy tone that captures Gould's sharp, angular linework at its most appealing. With 68 full-color pages, this early Dick Tracy volume offers a generous helping of hard-boiled adventure straight from the newspaper strips of the era.