Volume Seven contains over 500 Dick Tracy comic strips from the series' early years, this time covering material that originally ran from January 1941 through June 1942.

Chester Gould hits his stride, as he introduces four of his most grotesque villains: Pruneface, Laffy, Mrs. Pruneface, and Flattop!

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!

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!

This volume introduces Mumbles-one of Dick Tracy's greatest villains-and sees Tracy form the Crime Stoppers Club, teaching young boys and girls crime detection techniques. The fascinating (and sometimes grotesque) parade of characters continues, including Coffyhead, Hypo, Bronko, Kiss Andtell, Acres O'Riley, Heels Beals, and Autumn Hews.

Chief Brandon steps down, and wait 'til you see who's the new Chief! Then, Sam Catchem joins the force, Sparkle Plenty charms everyone, and two major characters tie the knot! And the villains? Well, Chester Gould continues to invent one grotesque, evil bad guy after another, as Wormy, Pearshape, Big Frost, Sleet, Talcum Freely, Sketch Paree, and Mousey make life miserable for Tracy and company.

Dick and Tess's house fire bombed! B.O. Plenty riddled with bullets! Sam Catchum apparently crushed to death! This volume's villains include Blowtop, T.V. Wiggles, Dr. Plain, and Empty Williams. Plus a baby named Bonnie Braids is born, Vitamin Flintheart returns, and who's the mysterious woman named Crewy Lou?

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!

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."

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.

Chester Gould ups the ante in his assault on juvenile delinquency in the startling-and literally haunting-conclusion to the Flattop Jr. saga. Meanwhile, the squad room becomes co-ed when Lizz permanently joins the cast. 

The 1950s just about come to a close as Chester Gould introduces one character after another whose crimes start off as relatively petty but who end up trapped in larger and more deadly conspiracies. New characters include the gamecock queen Miss Egghead, Cuban secret serviceman Wunbrow, the tragic Headache, and bizarre Popsie and her mother.

Dick Tracy meets Spots (a small-time grifter who suddenly gets big-time ambitions), a hitman named Halfa Million and his brother, the syndicate boss "Willie-the-Fifth," plus a legal eagle named Flyface, one of Chester Gould's most visually memorable villains.

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! 

Dick Tracy leaps into the Space Age when Diet Smith's experimental Space Coupe brings back a visitor from outer space! Meet... Moon Maid, the most outrageous character in the strip's entire history.

Two worlds are in turmoil when the inter-species romance between Junior and Moon Maid heats up. Can the twinkling of little antennae be too far in the future?

The adventures of this iconic square-jawed detective fighting a menagerie of grotesque villains remains one of the highlights in the history, of not just comics, but crime fiction in general. This series is ripe to introduce the strip to crime prose readers who haven't previously ventured into comics.

Chester Gould's morality play enters the late '60s, as the cartoonist tackles concepts of retribution, constitutional rights, economic warfare, and Space Age intrigue-all amidst the usual array of murder and violence.

Dick Tracy closes out the 1960s by moonlighting-literally! The master sleuth takes a part-time second job as Head of Security and Law Enforcement for Diet Smith's operations based on the moon. Soon, Tracy learns that an international crime syndicate, the Apparatus, has infiltrated Smith's organization on the lunar surface. 

Having returned to policing duty on Planet Earth, former Space Sheriff Tracy finds a world markedly changed from the one he left. 

The square-jawed detective fights a menagerie of grotesque villains in this staple of comics and crime fiction!

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.

Cartoons for Victory showcases the wartime work by cartoonists including Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, Al Capp, Harold Gray, Charles Addams, Herblock, Peter Arno, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Hank Ketcham, and many others.

Spanish cartoonist Marti incorporates elements of Scorsese's Taxi Driver with the brutal squashed perspectives of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy to create an eye-popping tale of urban justice as meted by the "Cabbie".

Coupling the grand guignol morality of Paul Schrader and Martin Scorseses Taxi Driver with the squashed black-and-white perspectives and grotesque human physiognomy (and humanity) that defines Chester Goulds Dick Tracy, Martis The Cabbie (starring the eponymous hero known only as the Cabbie) was first published in installments in 1980s Spain, a product of a life lived under, and coming out of, Francos fascist dictatorship.In Volume One (initially published in 2011), the Cabbies fathers coffin is stolen in an act of vengeance for the Cabbies vigilantism right after his mother tells him his inheritance is inside! Cabbie takes to the mean streets in a quest to find it.

ESTIMATED ARRIVAL: APRIL 29, 2025

Considered the first comic book with original material ever produced, 1933's "Detective Dan, Secret Op. 48" was a landmark. It only lasted one issue before morphing into the Dan Dunn newspaper strip.