Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched his wits with variety of colorful villains, many based on real-life gangsters. This comic strip was created by cartoonist Chester Gould, the Dick Tracy strip made deput apperance on October 4, 1931-1977. Chester introduced the violent comic strips which reflected the violence of 1930s in Chicago. He kept up with and studied the best fighting/detective techniques, forensic science, advanced gadgetry.
The history of Dick Tracy is that he proposed to a girl named Tess Trueheart. After returning home , they walked in on the middle of a robbery. Interrupted they shoot Tess' father Emil and kidnaps Tess. Dick wants justice done, so he swiftly in the police force, and nine days later was appointed to the plainsclothes detective division. After rescuing Tess, he continues with his new career.
The strip's villain are arguably the strongest appeal to the story. Gould most favor villain is Flattop Jones, a freelance hitman with a large head as flat as an aircraft carriar's flight deck. Flattop was hired to murder Tracy, and he came within hair's breadth of accomplishing that before deciding to first blackmail his employers for more money. This proved to be a fatal mistake since it gave Tracy time to signal for help, and he eventually defeated his assassin in a spectacular fight scene even as the police were storming the hideout. When Flattop was eventually killed, fans went into morning.
In later years, Dick Tracy made film debut in 1937, a Republic Pictures movie serial starring
Ralph Byrd.
Lauren Bray
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