DICK TRACY Tracy's Wartime Memories & America's Most Favorite Detective

Tracy's Wartime Memories & America's Most Favorite Detective Set. Tracy's Wartime Memories: The gangster known as "Big Boy" learned that he was dying and had less than a year to live. Big Boy was still seeking revenge on the plainclothesman who sent him up the river, and he wanted to live just long enough to see Tracy's death. He put out an open contract on Tracy's head worth $1 million, knowing that every small-time hood in the city would take a crack at the famous cop for that amount of money. One of the would-be collectors rigged Tracy's car to explode but inadvertently killed Moon Maid instead of Tracy in the explosion. This collection includes comic strips featuring Dick Tracy going up against Nazi spies, Flattop, Shaky, Pruneface, and Mrs. Pruneface! America's Most Favorite Detective contains several scholarly essays about the Dick Tracy comic strip, as well as profiles of the creators, press releases and other promotional materials, overviews of significant characters and stories, and reprints of several storylines. Cover artwork by Chester Gould. The original creator of Dick Tracy, Chester Gould, retired from comics in 1977. His last Dick Tracy strip appeared in print on Sunday, December 25 (Christmas Day) of that same year. The following Monday, Dick Tracy was taken over by Max Allan Collins and longtime Gould assistant Rick Fletcher. Gould's name remained in the byline for a few years after his retirement as a story consultant. Out of Print. Condition: Fine. Light edge wear and cover wear. Lightly bumped corners. Wartime has wrinkles on back cover near bottom of spine.