Archives - Chester Gould, the Father of Dick Tracy and the American Crime Comic

from History of Comic Books Podcast · host JT Wheatley

And now for a reposting of this rambling and too brief second part of this biography of Chester Gould, as he takes his Dick Tracy creation into one of the most popular characters in comics while fending off numerous imitators.

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