Complete Dick Tracy Dailies and Sundays HC (2006-2021 IDW) By Chester Gould comic books 2017-2019

Volume 21 - 1st printing. "Moon Maid 52 Gang: 1962-1964!" Story and art by Chester Gould. 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. Prior to venturing where no detective has gone before, Tracy deals with some very earthbound-and gruesomely entertaining-adventures, including the use of napalm (!) to flush out a gang of crooks from their hideout. In these strips from August 27, 1962 through April 12, 1964 Tracy mixes it up with the criminal 52 Gang-each named for a card in the poker deck-who have found a novel way to dispose of the corpses of their enemies, Junior is smitten by a girl who literally wants him dead, Sparkle Plenty falls into the hands of crazed modern artists and their ape accomplice, and (six months before it happened in the "real world") a doctor has perfected heart transplant surgery-but in this case it's on unwilling victims! Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 272 pages, B&W. Cover price $44.99.

Volume 22 - 1st printing. "Mr. Bribery/Ugly Christine: 1964-1965!" Story and art by Chester Gould. 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? Back on Earth, Diet Smith introduces the Two-Way Wrist Television fifty years before the Apple Watch, while Moon Maid turns vigilante and a series of events reveal a mob plot to kill both her and Dick Tracy. The clues eventually lead to Mr. Bribery, who proudly displays his collection of shrunken heads of the people who have crossed him. Volume 22 includes the complete comic strips from April 13, 1964 through December 26, 1965. Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 272 pages, B&W. Cover price $44.99.

Volume 23 - 1st printing. "Haf-and-Haf/Mr. Bribery: 1966-1967!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

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. Tracy is on the trail of the aptly named Mr. Bribery and his equally grotesque sister, Ugly Christine, in a story that also features a substance-abusing witch doctor and a shelf of shrunken heads. Meanwhile, newlyweds Junior and Moon Maid enter the story, and Dick Tracy's troubles are compounded when he comes face to face with master criminal Haf-and-Haf, one side of whose face is hideously disfigured. Included are all strips from December 27, 1965 to July 2, 1967.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 264 pages, B&W. Cover price $44.99.

Volume 24 - 1st printing. "Chin Chillar Posie: 1967-1969!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

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. The stakes, however, seem higher, and the body count soars: death in space, on the high seas, behind closed doors-by gun, by laser, by asphyxiation, by explosion, and by freezing. Plus, a special feature about the aborted 1967 Dick Tracy TV show from the same producer who made Batman a pop culture icon. Included are all strips from July 3, 1967 to April 2, 1969.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 264 pages, B&W.

Cover price $44.99.

Volume 25 - 1st printing. "Scorpio Diamonds: 1969-1970!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

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.

All this and more in these classic Chester Gould comic strips, from April 3, 1969, to December 23, 1970.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 296 pages, B&W.

Cover price $44.99.

Volume 26 - 1st printing. "Pouch Chameleon: 1971-1972!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

Having returned to policing duty on Planet Earth, former Space Sheriff Tracy finds a world markedly changed from the one he left. Feeling handcuffed by expanded legal protections afforded suspects and stricter guidelines of evidence, Tracy all but begs bad guys to shoot first, and he may get his wish, thanks to nemeses such as explosion-crazed Jonny Scorn, the hand grenade-toting revolutionary called El Tigress, and the aptly-named Dope King. These early '70s adventures also see the dauntless detective facing off against one of the strip's best late-era grotesque villains: Pouch, who uses a repulsive hidden flap in his neck to hide anything from stolen diamonds to automatic pistols.

Volume 26 collects all dailies and Sundays from December 24, 1970 to September 27, 1972.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 296 pages, B&W.

NOTE: "Chester Gould introduced a new hard-hitting type of realism [that] marked a radical and historical departure: the comics were no longer just funny." - Jerry Robinson, The Comics

Cover price $44.99.