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Loading... Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 14 (edition 2013)by Chester Gould (Author), Dean Mullaney (Editor), Max Allan Collins (Introduction)
Work InformationThe Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Dailies & Sundays, Volume 14: 1951-1953 by Chester Gould
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Nearly 2 years of Dick Tracy strips from the early 1950s, probably the high point of the strip's production. The first story has Crewy Lou on the lam, inadvertently kidnapping baby Bonny Braids Tracy in the process. After a manhunt that must have had readers on tenterhooks (Gould was not above dealing death to innocents), Crewy Lou dies in a fall from a ranger's tower, and Bonny Braids is rescued by an isolated couple in the woods after nearly dying from exposure. Actually, she almost meets the same end again months later. Poor tyke had a rough first year. Junior Tracy has a rough patch too, when his first love, Model, dies after being accidentally shot through the neck by her criminal brother. This was a short storyline, but one that probably moved Gould's readership more than any other story he ever wrote. I still think Gould is overrated, but I'm coming around to enjoying his work as a guilty pleasure of a summer read. ( ) no reviews | add a review
What does Crewy Lou do with Bonny Braids? Dick and Tess's baby isn't the only child in danger in Volume 14- wait 'til you meet Sparkle Plenty's new best friend, "Little Wings," and discover the ominous reason she appears to glow in the dark! Chester Gould also ramps up the violence and death traps, introduces more inventions (closed circuit surveillance, the first broadcast police line-up), and more crazy characters such as Tonsils, Dot View, Mr. Crime, Odds Zonn, Newsuit Nan, and Spinner ReCord, plus the touching story of the girl known as Model. Including all strips from September 16, 1951 - April 18, 1953. No library descriptions found. |
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