Chester Gould's fertile imagination continues at a breakneck pace, as he
introduces The Brow, Flattop, Shaky, Breathless Mahoney, Measles, Gravel Gertie,
B.O. Plenty, and the Summer Sisters!
Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, and containing all
daily and Sunday comic strips from March 23, 1944 through September 19, 1945,
this volume features an introduction by Max Allan Collins, and includes a
special feature by Jeff Kersten of the Dick Tracy Museum about the famous radio
program, "Dick Tracy in B-Flat," starring Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Frank
Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope!


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