(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!

(W/A/CA) Chester Gould Lawless days like the mid-1930s needed the toughest policemen to dispense justice?men like Dick Tracy! In Volume 3 of his long-running series, the bold detective tangles with Zora Arson, her escaped-con brother, Boris, and the evil ?Cutie??who gets cute by springing a death trap involving two famished bobcats! Clover Press and The Library of American Comics are re-presenting Chester Gould?s earliest Dick Tracy stories in the larger format used throughout most books in the series, so Tracy?s battles against gangsters look bigger and better than ever. The action hits closer to home when the Tracy family?s acquaintance, Toby Townley, learns that justice is blind after the small grift she runs makes her realize that prison stripes are the new black. Then Dick Tracy tries an experiment in reform, transforming hardened criminal ?Lips? Manlis into straight-arrow Bob Honor ? but is it true there?s no Honor among thieves? This new edition of Dick Tracy Volume 3 puts Chester Gould?s great stories into a great package!

(W/A/CA) Chester Gould The 1930s give way to the ?40s and Chester Gould makes things personal in this sixth volume of the Dick Tracy series. First comes a story of broken hearts and wilted flowers, as Tess Trueheart jilts her detective boyfriend for an ex-ballplayer who schemes to inherit millions, and he?ll kill anyone who gets in his way ? including Tess! An encounter with small-time dognapper puts Tracy on the trail of a gang of fur thieves, and then hardened criminal Stooge Viller softens up, thanks to his young daughter, but not before he drops Dick Tracy into a dastardly death trap! The detective, meanwhile, crosses paths with an abandoned infant and an amnesiac chanteuse and sees that crime is for couples when the diminutive Jerome and his hulking bride, Mamma, sew death and destruction from city streets to the western plains, while the suave mastermind Krome decides to part ways with his traitorous girlfriend by permanently parting her hair! This book paves the way for the debut of The Mole and the Great Grotesque Villains who follow and completes the Clover Press and Librar