Tag: Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy Wacky Wobbler
Back in the 1990s, before Funko marketed their popular POP! line, they made Wacky Wobblers. As the name implies they are bobble-head characters. Here’s one I just added to my collection… Dick Tracy!
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SACRAMENTO (UPI) —State crime sleuths today folded up their comic pages and gave up hope of finding clues to the riddle of San Francisco’s Zodiac killer in the Dick Tracy cartoon series.
Agents of the State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation began checking two months worth of Tracy comics on the theory they might find some parallels between the San Francisco killer of five persons and the “Scorpio” leader of the “Zodiac Gang ” being hunted down by Tracy.
“We gave the whole thing up,” Earl Bauer, senior analyst in the crime laboratory, said today. “We didn’t find any-thing that tied it up at all. We gave it up.”
“They’re just in two different worlds,” Bauer said of the real and fictitious Zodiacs.
He said the killer began using the Zodiac symbol before it appeared in the comic strip. Aug 17.
Zodiac, who has bragged of his crimes in cryptic notes to police and newspapers, shot a young couple to death in a lovers lane near Vallejo last Dec. 20, killed another girl and wounded her companion near Vallejo July 5, stabbed Hartnell and killed his coed companion Sept. 27, and shot a San Francisco cab driver to death Oct. 11.
Dick Tracy’s Crime Stopper Lab
Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers Lab by Porter Chemical Company.
The set included: an 8″ tall working microscope with 60X magnification, Official Dick Tracy Fingerprint Book, Dick Tracy’s Crime Stoppers Textbook No. 1., magnifying glass, and fingerprint pad.
Super Comics, July, 1941
Johnny Ramm, looking rather smug as he reads the headlines of Dick Tracy’s disappearance
Dick Tracy The Super-Detective
Dick Tracy The Super-Detective, Big Little Book, 1939
Happy Birthday Chester Gould
Happy 120th Birthday to Chester Gould November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985
Dick Tracy Vs Cueball
The second Dick Tracy Movie by RKO and the last with Morgan Conway in the lead
Dick Tracy, Detective
In what was the first of 4 RKO releases based on Chester Gould’s comic strip character we find Dick Tracy on the trail of a serial killer called Splitface.
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Dick Tracy Christmas
Chester Gould artwork from an early 50s Christmas card