Buy this book on-line GOULD, CHESTER - Edited by Tom Adams,introduced by Max Allan Collins:: : CHESTER GOULD: THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY DAILIES & SUNDAYS 1931-1933 - VOLUME ONEUS.SAN DIEGO,CALIFORNIA.IDW,October,2006. ISBN 9781600103360
US,Landscape 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Stated First printing October,2006.First volume of planned reprinting of 5 decades of Gould's 'Dick Tracy' comic strips.This volume specifically covers 10/12/1931 to 5/20/1933 (12th Oct.1931 - 20th May,1933)] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,3-colour block (brown,pale green and white) pictorial artwork (profile portrait Dick Tracy) by Gould,illustrated dw/dj panels and inner flaps,with gold,black and dark green lettering to front,spine and rear panels; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping, creasing to edges and corners – no nicks, tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges generally bright and clean without toning, foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,original,plain grey cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to spine and immaculate/clean 3-colour block cartoon illustrations repeated to both sets of endpapers.US, landscape 12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,364pp [unpaginated] includes 4-colour block partial cartoon illustrated half-title page,a 3-colour block Dick Tracy side profile portrait illustrated title page, full+part-page cartoon illustrated 3pp introduction by Max Allan Collins,10pp Chester Gould interview by Max Allan Collins and Matt Masteron,with colour thumbnail Tracy cartoon artwork stamp illustrations,3-colour block,3 partial cartoon Plain Clothes Tracy illustrated separator page for 3pp draft b/w cartoon strips sent to Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate,a 3-colour block 4 partial cartoons illustrated separator page of Dick Tracy continuity cartoon strips for 10/12/31 to 5/20/33 [Dailies],a 3-colour block 3 partial cartoons illustrated Non-Continuity Sunday Pages separator page for 34 colour cartoon strips with part-cartoon illustration to verso of last colour strip,and repeated title page from front and repeated 3-colour cartoon illustrated endpapers - similar to front endpapers.
Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional for a book of it's age,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.
The first volume of the complete Chester Gould's DICK TRACY includes the five sample strips that Gould used to sell his groundbreaking strip,as well as nearly 600 comic strips in both b/w+ colour, encompassing the series' beginning,from October,1931 to May,1933.Among these strips are the first appearances of many long-time Dick tracy characters,such as Tess Trueheart,Junior,and Chief Brandon.
The strip was instantly popular and was soon appearing in newspapers across the United States.The strip's popularity also resulted in the creation of numerous 'Dick Tracy' merchandise,including novelizations, toys,and games.
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