Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror, [1] …

Dick Tracy became a policeman to avenge the murder of Emil Trueheart, the father of Tracy’s longtime love interest, Tess. Tracy was portrayed as an incorruptible plainclothes detective in a Midwestern …

Dick Tracy: Directed by Warren Beatty. With Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Charlie Korsmo. The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances …

Learn more about the Dick Tracy comic strip, its cast of characters, and creator Charles Ettinger & Joe Staton & Mike Curtis.

In 2018, IDW began publishing a 4-issue Dick Tracy comic book miniseries, written by Lee & Michael Allred and penciled by Rich Tommaso. This was the first original Dick Tracy material produced for …

October 4, 1931 Dick Tracy first appears published only in the Detroit Sunday Mirror, with Cigarette Sadie in companion October 12, 1931 Dick Tracy in daily continuity first appears published in the NY …

Dec 24, 2025 · by Charles Ettinger and Mike Curtis “Dick Tracy’s” hard-hitting, fearless style secured the square-jawed detective’s place in American culture as the iconic lawman who keeps the streets safe. …

Dick Tracy was a radio show from 1935-48, and the character was featured in a series of novels and Big Little Books during that time, as well. He made a leap into movies in 1937, when Ralph Byrd …

Dick Tracy The titular hero of the strip. Dick Tracy was born in 1909 (eight years after creator Chester Gould). In 1931, before even joining the police, he had captured his first villain Pinkie the Stabber. …

Dick Tracy also served as the model for yet another icon of American culture. Bob Kane credited Dick Tracy as the inspiration for his own creation, the Batman, and Gould's menagerie of grotesque …