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

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.

Volume 27 - 1st printing. "Button Big Brass: 1972-1974!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

With one end of a rope around Tracy's neck and the other end attached to an innocent young boy hanging out of a high-rise window, Chester Gould proves that he can still invent unique death traps for the sharp-jawed detective. The tension and excitement continue throughout the stories collected in this book as Tracy and his team are led on one relentless chase after another. And just when they think they've captured the criminal mastermind known as "Button," he escapes... and escapes again! Things never slow down in Dick Tracy Volume 27, which reprints all dailies and Sundays from September 28, 1972 to July 6, 1974.

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

Cover price $44.99.

Volume 28 - 1st printing. "Brain Lispy: 1974 to 1976!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

The square-jawed detective fights a menagerie of grotesque villains in this staple of comics and crime fiction!

The square-jawed detective fights it out with one thug after another, including Lispy and the visually grotesque villain appropriately named The Brain. These stories are replete with murder, suicide, gangland execution, dope smuggling, a deadly natural disaster, and not one but two main characters on the verge of death.. All this and the return of retired Chief Brandon in the penultimate volume of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, collecting strips from July 7, 1974 to March 14, 1976.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 288 pages, B&W.

Cover price $44.99.

Volume 29 - 1st printing. "Pucker Puss Zero Nought: 1976 to 1977!"

Story and art by Chester Gould.

This volume completes the iconic comics written and drawn by Chester Gould.

After 46 years, 2 months, and 21 days writing and drawing Dick Tracy Chester Gould retired at the age of 77. In these historic final strips, Gould pits his dynamic detective against the latest in a long line of grotesque villains. Tracy, meanwhile, takes his law and order campaign to television, while his past catches up to him when a criminal he helped convict twenty years ago puts the detective on his "to kill" list. To round out this volume, the squad room is kept busy with two members of B.O. Plenty's extended family who are anything but law-abiding-Perfume Plenty and her larcenous cousin Dade. All this and more in the ultimate volume of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, collecting strips from March 15, 1976 to December 25, 1977.

The series is ripe to introduce to crime prose readers who haven't previously ventured into comics.

Hardcover, 11-in. x 8 1/2-in., 288 pages, B&W.

Cover price $44.99.