Dick Tracy Ace Detective
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, 1943. First Edition. 8vo, 7 3/4 x 5 11/4 inches ( 195 x 133 mm), 248 pp., 3 publisher advertisements. Illustrated throughout by the author. Blue stamped paper boards with orange titles on front and spine, pictorial endpapers, front with 1 1/2 inch tear. Facsimile dust jacket. Pages browned as usual for this edition and p. 129 with a tear and chip. Facsimile dust jacket.
An early and desirable wartime appearance of Dick Tracy in novel form, based on the hugely popular newspaper strip created by Chester Gould. Gould supplied the story treatment and illustrations, with the narrative expanded into full-length form for publication. An engaging crossover between comic strip and prose fiction, capturing the hard-boiled energy of the original strip at the height of its popularity. Increasingly sought after by collectors of comic-related material and vintage detective fiction alike.
Condition: Very good.
Item number: 2359
Price: $45.00
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