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Presenting the third volume of IDW Publishing's deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. Volume Three once again contains over 500 comic strips from the series' early years, this time covering material that originally ran from January 1935 through June 1936. This special volume features an introduction from Consulting Editor and longtime Tracy writer Max Allan Collins. Each volume will feature book design from award-winning designer/artist Ashley Wood.
-The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard for archival comic strip reprints... The research and articles provide insight and context, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material has preserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway to adventure for those discovering them for the first time." - Scoop
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Angela Meyer
reviewed Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, Volume 3 on August 04, 2013
Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy
A rather uneven volume this go-around.
Volume 3's highlights include the continuation of the Boris Arson storyline, the Addie Gothorn mystery, and the character of Mimi from the Lips Manlis arc. As I've mentioned before, Arson is directly influenced by the career of John Dillinger. Another gangster in this volume, Cut Famon, very clearly is modeled after Al Capone. And his tommy gun-toting ma is a takeoff on Ma Barker. Gould's stories are typically products of their times.
But there's a lot of melodrama too. For the better part of 1935, Toby Townley (a parody of Toby Wing) plays a major role in the strip. Toby is a sympathetic character who gets mixed up with the wrong people. In another time, this might have meant death in Gould's universe. But he seems to have been trying to add a second, recurring female character to the strip. Toby would all but disappear from the strip after 1936.
Racial stereotypes also begin to pop up in this volume. Chief Yellowpony is almost passable. But the black valet, "Memphis", is cringeworthy. Thankfully neither stays in the strip for very long.
I'm also not a big fan of the Lips Manlis 'reformed criminal' storyline. Manlis' transition from hoodlum to saint is too easy, too simple. Tracy also seems very out-of-character in this story, with Gould too obviously inserting himself into his main character's thoughts.
Still, this is good material, but comes in a little lower than Volume 2 of the series.
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