Four Color #8

Dick Tracy charges straight at the reader on this 1940 Dell cover, tommy gun blazing as bullets spark off a brick wall behind him — Chester Gould's square-jawed detective rendered with all the crisp, hard-boiled confidence that made the strip a national sensation. At a dime for 68 pages of full color, this early Four Color entry delivers an impressive package straight from Gould's own pen. A vivid time capsule of Depression-era crime comics at their most direct and energetic.