Starting with an oldie but a goody: Sometime in the 1930's, this once contained caramel of questionable taste (see the faces of Tracy and Junior!) and a card with a continuing story. More you bought, the more of the story you could read. Nice idea. Coming out of the Great Depression, you needed to have an edge on the competition because a penny actually meant something. The art is crude and at best was probably copied from a Chester Gould (Tracy's creator) panel. I don't see as many for sale these days as I did a few years ago.
In a world filled with gangsters and petty criminals preying on the innocent, Chester Gould's comic strip detective Dick Tracy was the hard-boiled smackdown. This is my collection of Tracy stuff and items of interest, in one place. The place where Tracy hangs his hat.
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
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Starting with an oldie but a goody: Sometime in the 1930's, this once contained caramel of questionable taste (see the faces of Tracy and Junior!) and a card with a continuing story. More you bought, the more of the story you could read. Nice idea. Coming out of the Great Depression, you needed to have an edge on the competition because a penny actually meant something. The art is crude and at best was probably copied from a Chester Gould (Tracy's creator) panel. I don't see as many for sale these days as I did a few years ago.
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