comicbooks.com Join Free
The Original Dick Tracy Comic Album #2 cover
Cover: Chester Gould

The Original Dick Tracy Comic Album #2

Jan 1990 · Gladstone · 5.95 USD; 8.35 CAD
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free
“The Origin of the Two-Way Wrist Radio”
About this Collection

This volume collects classic Dick Tracy newspaper comic strips from the 1930s, featuring Chester Gould's iconic detective in early adventures. The second entry in Gladstone's reprint series, it showcases the strip's formative years with its distinctive art and hard-boiled storytelling.

writer, artist, inker, letterer Chester Gould · cover Chester Gould

Find on

Search eBay for The Original Dick Tracy Comic Album #2
No confirmed live listings for this exact issue right now — this opens an eBay search.

Where to buy

$37.89 🛒 Buy on Amazon
The Original Dick Tracy Comic Album #2

Sell my copy

Have this issue — or a whole collection? Get a fair offer from us, skip the marketplace fees and the hassle.

We Buy Collections ▸
Fast, fair offers · we handle grading & shipping

Full credits

writer, artist, inker, letterer Chester Gould
cover pencils, inks Chester Gould

Full plot ⚠ may contain spoilers

▸ Reveal full plot — may contain spoilers

As the story opens, Diet Smith tells Tracy that he has killed a man. B. O. Plenty sees a burglar emerge from the basement of Diet Smith's house. He tells Tracy, who finds a strange watch dropped by the burglar. TRcy examines it closely in his lab and discovers that it is a two-way radio. With Smith's help, Tracy uses it as a communications tool for the police. Irma, thinking Smith cheated her son out of his invention, attempts to kill Smith as he takes a bath. Thinking she has succeeded, Irma shoots herself. Brilliant swears vengeance but changes his mind at the hospital.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).

Reviews

Reader reviews

No reader reviews yet.