Comic books in 'Golden age reprints'

Circa 1951. Reprints cover and stories from Captain Marvel Adventures #102. Stories include "The Earth Destroyer," "The Magic Mix-Up," and "The Adventure Within An Adventure..." by (w) Otto Binder. 7" x 10-1/4". B&W interior. 6d. 36pgs.

Circa 1951. Reprints cover and stories from Captain Marvel Adventures #118. Stories include "Sivana's Sound Plague," "The Pie Plot," and "The Space Orphan" by (w) Otto Binder. 7" x 10-1/4". B&W interior. 6d.

Circa 1951. Reprints cover and stories from Captain Marvel Adventures #105. Stories include "The Mysterious Invisible Monster," "Dogcatcher," and "The Fountain of Life" by (w) Otto Binder. 7" x 10-1/4". B&W interior. 6d.

Add to cart Near Mint $41.00

Add to cart Near Mint $41.00

Volume 1 - 1st printing. "1931-1933!" Clover Press and The Library of American Comics prove that size does matter as we fulfill fans' long-standing requests to produce new editions of the first six volumes of Chester Gould's The Complete Dick Tracy. This is no simple reprinting - these volumes have been reformatted to be the same larger size as Volumes 7 through 29. In this premiere offering, we return again to those hardscrabble days of 1931, when tragedy in the Trueheart family puts young Dick Tracy on the police force and pits him against mobster "Big Boy," Larceny Lu, the counterfeiter Alec Penn, the nefarious "Stooge" Viller, and Steve the Tramp! As an added bonus, the first thirty-four Tracy Sunday pages, with stories separate from the daily continuity, have been rescanned to make them sharper and cleaner than their original reprinting. There's never been a better time than now to get reacquainted with Chester Gould's crime-busting plainclothesman, with the publication of the new bigger edition of The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 1! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 280 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.95.

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Volume 2 - 1st printing. "1933-1935!" It's all about family in the Complete Dick Tracy Volume 2, as Clover Press and The Library of American Comics bring this early entry into the series' standardized format. That means larger pages in a book that looks great on the shelf with its companions. Between the covers, the spotlight's on Junior Tracy as he and his biological father cross paths with the notorious "Stooge" Viller and his sister, Maxine. Then "Big Boy" leaves Junior hospitalized before "Confidence" Dolan locks the boy in the can. Dick Tracy's subsequent encounter with secret operative J. Scotland Bumpsted puts the evil Larceny Lu on the run to California. There she meets Junior's long-lost mother, who gives Junior a Scotty pup named Oscar and Tracy a way to bring villainous Boris Arson to justice. Chester Gould's high-octane stories set pulses raising and hearts beating faster in the reformatted, super-sized, all-action The Complete Dick Tracy Volume 2! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 280 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.99.

Volume 3 - 2nd and Later Printings. "1935-1936!" Presenting the third volume of IDW Publishing's deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. Volume Three once again contains over 500 comic strips from the series' early years, this time covering material that originally ran from January 1935 through June 1936. This special volume features an introduction from Consulting Editor and longtime Tracy writer Max Allan Collins. Each volume features book design from award-winning designer/artist Ashley Wood. Hardcover, 10-in. x 7 1/2-in., PC/PB&W. Cover price $29.99.

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11-in. x 8 1/2-in. Edition

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "1935-1936!" PLawless days like the mid-1930s needed the toughest policemen to dispense justice—men like Dick Tracy! In Volume 3 of his long-running series, the bold detective tangles with Zora Arson, her escaped-con brother, Boris, and the evil Cutie—who gets cute by springing a death trap involving two famished bobcats! Clover Press and The Library of American Comics are re-presenting Chester Goulds earliest Dick Tracy stories in the larger format used throughout most books in the series, so Tracys battles against gangsters look bigger and better than ever. The action hits closer to home when the Tracy familys acquaintance, Toby Townley, learns that justice is blind after the small grift she runs makes her realize that prison stripes are the new black. Then Dick Tracy tries an experiment in reform, transforming hardened criminal Lips Manlis into straight-arrow Bob Honor – but is it true theres no Honor among thieves? This new edition of Dick Tracy Volume 3 puts Chester Goulds great stories into a great package! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.99.

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11-in. x 8 1/2-in. Edition

Volume 4 - 1st printing. "1936-1938!" Story and art by Chester Gould. Faceless foes bookend the stories in Dick Tracy Volume 4, the latest entry in the Clover Press/Library of American Comics reissue of the original six Dick Tracy volumes in the larger format that became the series standard. The intrepid detective and his friends tackle invisible enemies when they square off against the notorious Purple Cross Gang and their masked leader. Later, Tracy and Pat Patton come to grips – and blows! – with The Blank, whose look predates The Question, whose name predates The Shining, and whose unmasked face harkens back to Lon Chaney as Quasimodo! Sandwiched between those two tales, Tracy is caught in a web of intrigue along with three amoral young girls, millionaire wastrel Johnny Mintworth and his mother, plus the powerful mobs fronted by Collie Vinsso and Danny Supeena. Chester Gould puts menace in every shadow and death around every corner in Dick Tracy Volume 4! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in. , PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.99.

Add to cart Near Mint $34.00

Add to cart Near Mint $34.00

Volume 5 - 1st printing. "1938-1939!" Story and art by Chester Gould. Cover by Ashley Wood. Dick Tracy Volume 5 kicks off with a human trafficking story that could be torn from todays headlines, as the dauntless detective encounters a captive woman who bears a striking resemblance to real life sex symbol Dorothy Lamour! That woman, Noana, is just one of the lively characters Chester Gould introduces as Clover Press and The Library of American Comics continue to re-release the original six Dick Tracy volumes in the larger size that will allow the entire series to exist in one uniform format. In these exciting tales, Tracy goes undercover to bring down the elusive mobster Ramm; joins forces with Junior and bumbling newcomer Brighton Spotts to foil the plans of wanted man Jojo Nidle; and pays a heavy price as he teams with G-Man Jim Trailer to thwart the schemes of an international criminal named Karpse and his icy sweetheart, Marro—but what does it take to stop the criminal rampage of that deformed gunsel, Scardol? Savor the larger-size, non-stop action in Dick Tracy Volume 5 to find Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.99.

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Volume 6 - 1st printing. "1939-1941!" Story and art by Chester Gould. The 1930s give way to the 40s and Chester Gould makes things personal in this sixth volume of the Dick Tracy series. First comes a story of broken hearts and wilted flowers, as Tess Trueheart jilts her detective boyfriend for an ex-ballplayer who schemes to inherit millions, and hell kill anyone who gets in his way – including Tess! An encounter with small-time dognapper puts Tracy on the trail of a gang of fur thieves, and then hardened criminal Stooge Viller softens up, thanks to his young daughter, but not before he drops Dick Tracy into a dastardly death trap! The detective, meanwhile, crosses paths with an abandoned infant and an amnesiac chanteuse and sees that crime is for couples when the diminutive Jerome and his hulking bride, Mamma, sew death and destruction from city streets to the western plains, while the suave mastermind Krome decides to part ways with his traitorous girlfriend by permanently parting her hair! This book paves the way for the debut of The Mole and the Great Grotesque Villains who follow and completes the Clover Press and Library of American Comics transformation of the first six volumes of the Dick Tracy series into the larger-sized, standard format of the series. Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 264 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $59.99.

Volume 9 - 2nd and Later Printings. "1944-1945!" Story and art by Chester Gould. 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! With an introduction by Max Allan Collins, and 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! 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. Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 264 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.

Volume 10 - 2nd and later printings. "1945-1947!" Story and art by Chester Gould. Calling all law-abiding citizens-witness the introduction of the famous Two-Way Wrist Radio, created by the aptly named Brilliant! Enjoy an ever-expanding cast that includes Diet Smith, Themesong, and Christmas Early, as well as the return of Vitamin Flintheart and Snowflake, while the two most unlikely characters get married! Thrill to the capers staged by the villains Influence, Shoulders, Itchy, Nilon Hose, and Gargles! Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, with introductions by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Kersten. Containing all daily and Sunday comic strips from September 20, 1945 through March 16, 1947. Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 364 pages, PC/PB&W. Cover price $39.99.

Volume 14 - 2nd and Later Printings. "1951-1953!" Story and art by Chester Gould. What does Crewy Lou do with Bonny Braids? Dick and Tess's baby isn't the only child in danger in Volume 14: wait 'til you meet Sparkle Plenty's new best friend, "Little Wings," and discover the ominous reason she appears to glow in the dark! Chester Gould also ramps up the violence and death traps, introduces more inventions (closed circuit surveillance, the first broadcast police line-up), and more cra-a-zy characters such as Tonsils, Dot View, Mr. Crime, Odds Zonn, Newsuit Nan, and Spinner ReCord, plus the touching story of the girl known as Model! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.99.

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Volume 15 - 2nd and Later Printings. "3-D Magee Open-Mind: 1953-1954!" Story and art by Chester Gould. In this volume we learn the fate of "Little Wings" and her radioactive dad and on a lighter side, we meet Canhead (B.O.'s brother, Kincaid Plenty); his not so light and not so nice ex-wife Pony; and her crony, the downright creepy 3-D Magee. Meanwhile, Tracy has to deal with TNT vests and killer ants while showing Open-Mind Monty that he's no "dummy." Plus, the unlikely duo of Dewdrop and Sticks, the oversized Rainbow Reiley, and Chester Gould's latest and greatest grotesque: Rughead! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 256 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.99.

Volume 16 - 2nd and later printings. "Rughead Mumbles: 1954-1956!" Story and art by Chester Gould. In Volume 16, Chester Gould presents an amazing number of memorable characters: grotesques such as the murderous Rughead and a 467-lb. killer named Oodles, health faddist George Ozone and his wild boys named Neki and Hokey, the despicable "Nothing" Yonson, the amoral teenager Joe Period, and the introduction of nightclub photog-turned policewoman Lizz. Plus for the first time Gould brings back an old villain: Mumbles, who was thought drowned in 1947. And finally, he introduces what may be his most mature story of the 1950s-starring none other than Flattop Jr.! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 260 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.99.

Volume 20 - 2nd and Later Printings. "Brush Spready: 1961-1962!" Story and art by Chester Gould. Dick Tracy embarks on a seven-month-long complicated manhunt when he relentlessly tracks the Brush and a million-dollar sack of cash-but with his foe on the lam without his trademark face wig, Tracy doesn't even know what the murderer looks like! The strip enters its fourth decade as Chester Gould also presents a poignant story that rivals the "Model" narrative, when Tracy has to protect Junior from disturbing news about an important figure from the boy's past. Included are all strips from February 20, 1961 through August 26, 1962. Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 280 pages, B&W. Cover price $39.99.

Volume 29 - 1st printing. "Pucker Puss Zero Nought: 1976 to 1977!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

This volume completes the iconic comics written and drawn by Chester Gould.

After 46 years, 2 months, and 21 days writing and drawing Dick Tracy Chester Gould retired at the age of 77. In these historic final strips, Gould pits his dynamic detective against the latest in a long line of grotesque villains. Tracy, meanwhile, takes his law and order campaign to television, while his past catches up to him when a criminal he helped convict twenty years ago puts the detective on his "to kill" list. To round out this volume, the squad room is kept busy with two members of B.O. Plenty's extended family who are anything but law-abiding-Perfume Plenty and her larcenous cousin Dade. All this and more in the ultimate volume of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, collecting strips from March 15, 1976 to December 25, 1977.

The series is ripe to introduce to crime prose readers who haven't previously ventured into comics.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 288 pages, B&W.

Cover price $44.99.