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| Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume 2 (Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Chester Gould, Ashley Wood
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 131618
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 1.5
ISBN: 1600100376
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781600100376
ASIN: 1600100376
Publication Date: May 9, 2007
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Product Description
Presenting a deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. The second volume of this multi-year project includes nearly 500 comic strips from May 1933 to January 1935. This special second volume also features an exclusive essay from Consulting Editor and longtime Tracy writer Max Allan Collins. Each volume will feature book design from award-winning designer/artist Ashley Wood.
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 Fast-paced adventure by an American comics master May 10, 2007
21 out of 21 found this review helpful
This review is from my "Tony's Tips" column in COMICS BUYER'S GUIDE...
I planned to pace myself reading The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume Two [IDW Publishing; $29.99], but that plan went awry pretty quick. This volume reprints the strip - both dailies and Sundays - from May 21, 1933 to January 29. 1935. As author and Gould successor Max Allan Collins recounts in his introduction to this volume, Gould was learning while he was earning, refining his storytelling while creating one of the most exciting comic strips of all time. The action moved as fast as speeding bullets and it often seemed like Tracy or sidekick Junior or girlfriend Tess were in mortal peril weekly. It must have been maddening for readers of the era to have to wait an entire day to find out what would happen to Gould's good guys and bad guys. I breezed through eight months' of the strip in a morning and couldn't turn the pages fast enough.
I'd still be reading if I didn't have to stop to write this review. The sacrifices I make for you...
Tracy has already amassed a number of mortal enemies as this volume opens and their aggregate hankering to rid themselves of the detective puts him and his loved ones in life-threatening peril on a far too frequent basis. But the hatred of the villains is just as likely to work against them. It's a dangerous dance and there are casualties on both sides.
Junior emerges as a star in his own right during these strips. He's smart, tough, and a crack shot. But, just when you think he's invincible, his youthful naivety gets him into a seemingly hopeless jam. No wonder he was such a popular character back in the day. Indeed, the more I read of these early strips, the more I'm convinced he was the main inspiration for Batman's Robin.
Besides 20 months of the strips themselves and the insightful Collins introduction, this second book also features the conclusion of the 1980 Gould interview conducted by Collins and Tracy expert Matt Masterson. Though Gould often has to be prompted to remember specific details of his work, his drive, loyalty, and strength of character come through loud and clear.
There are books I can't imagine not being in the library of a serious comics buff. This is one of them.
The Complete Chester Gould's Dick Tracy Volume Two earns the full five out of five Tonys.
 The further adventures of Plainsclothes Tracy November 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
In the early 1930s, a new comic became one of the most popular strips ever, especially in the category of crime comics. Dick Tracy, created by Chester Gould, continues to be published today, albeit as a pale shadow of its former self. Although the strip would hit its peak in the 1940s with villains like Flattop and Pruneface, even the earlier strips (with their more ordinary crooks) have their merit.
On the side of law and order, besides Dick Tracy, are fellow detective Pat Patson, adopted son Junior and love interest Tess Trueheart. As Volume 2 (covering 1933 to 1935) begins, two old villains are forging an alliance behind bars: the brainy Stooge Viller and the tough Steve the Tramp. Later will come a series of adventures with crime boss Big Boy and his gang.
The rather freakish-looking (although many of Gould's characters are at least slightly strange-looking) Jean Penfield tries to win Tracy's heart even as she writes a crime expose. Her efforts fail, but not before she fights things out with Tess. The latter strips deal with the return of the pathetic Mary Steele, Junior's real mother who gets entangled with criminals even as she watches her son from a distance.
From a writing standpoint, Gould is no Chandler or Hammett, but the mediums are different, something that needs to be recalled as you read these strips - they were supposed to be read one-a-day, not months worth at a time. And while certainly entertaining, the ability to tell a continuing story is not nearly as good as other contemporary strips such as Frank King's wonderful Gasoline Alley. This volume, however, is still early Gould, and his skills are still being honed. While not a top choice among the early comics now being reprinted, this is still worth picking up for fans of this era.
Dick Tracy Vol 2 September 14, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this book. I have recently become quite enamored with Dick Tracy. I am making my way through the Golden Age comic characters and these compiled editions are wonderful to read.
As per Dick Tracy's life, the book is almost like a visual novel. He and Tess have their ups and downs, the kid, Junior, struggles with changes in his life and even falls into a gang of crime, and Dick Tracy shows that though he's good, he's not always perfect.
I really enjoyed the interview with Gould in the beginning of the book that detailed Tracy's orgins as a mob-fighting Sherlock Holmes, and also gives and approximate age for him (around 25 when the strip starts).
If you like love, mystery, suspense, and a bit of 1930's CSI: Dick Tracy style, you will enjoy this book.
Dick Tracy rides again. January 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This second volume of the complete Dick Tracy reprints the strips from May 21, 1933 to January 29, 1935. This is great, exciting stuff. Tracy has rematches with the villains Steve the Tramp, Stooge Viller and Big Boy. And new villains like Larceny Lu, Doc Hump and Boris Arson are introduced. Many other significant events occur. Junior's biological father dies and his biological mother is found. Tess Trueheart gets a rival for Dick's affection named Jean Penfield. Tracy gets a friendly rival in the police department, an English detective named J. Scotland Bumpsted. And that just begins to scratch the surface of the action packed exploits within this book. Highly recommended to fans of classic adventure comic strips.
Dick Tracy The Thirties July 10, 2007
This book is OK but not as good as DICK TRACY THE THIRTIES- TOMMY GUNS AND HARD TIMES which was published by Chelsea House about 30 years ago and covered about the same period along with 12 Sunday pages (including Cigarette Sadie) in color.This one starts at a later date while the old one began with the second story. And finally it weighs a ton which makes it uncomfortable for an older person to read.Of course, what is not to like about Tracy in the Thirties.
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