(W/A/CA) Chester Gould 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!

(W/A/CA) Chester Gould 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!