Four Color #163

From high atop a rooftop, Dick Tracy crawls with grim determination across the angled beams, the city sprawling far below him — Chester Gould's bird's-eye composition gives this 1947 Dell issue an immediate, vertiginous charge. A figure below reaches upward, adding a sense of urgency to Tracy's precarious perch against the urban backdrop. "Trigger Doom and the Stolen Jewels" promises exactly the kind of hard-boiled adventure that made Gould's square-jawed detective one of comics' most compelling crimefighters.