[DennyWilson]

A friend of mine sent me this email on a new DICK TRACY site!

Almost 80 years ago, a young cartoonist sent his latest idea to Captain Joseph Patterson, who selected all the comic strips for the CHICAGO TRIBUNE and NY DAILY NEWS. Chester Gould had been submitting for some time, both realistic and funny animal comic strips.  Then he received a telegram from Patterson:  BELIEVE PLAINCLOTHES TRACY HAS POSSIBILITIES.

Did it ever.

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Chester Gould masterminded the adventures of a police detective named DICK TRACY for over 40 years, before turning over the reins to mystery writer Max Allen Collins and various artists.  In the meantime, his "Plainclothes" cop became the hero of film, radio and television.

Monday June 21, various friends and fans of Chester Gould's "ultimate lawman" launch a limited time tribute site to DICK TRACY, featuring facts and fiction about the nation's number one Crimestopper.

http://www.plainclothescomics.com/

Among the many features:

An unpublished comic book story done for DISNEY ADVENTURES.  Written by TRACY scribe Max Allen Collins, and drawn by legendary comic pro JOE STATON, FIREWORKS tells the story of Dick Tracy and his adventures against a criminal gang led by one of his oldest foes. Color by CHARLES GRAY and ED GARCIA.

Real life crimestopper JIM DOHERTY contributes a continued story pitting Tracy against a cunning serial killer.  MURDER IS MY HOBBY.

Film historian BRUCE DETTMAN tells of the adventures of Dick Tracy on film.

Set in the skewed world of the 1960's UPA DICK TRACY cartoons, TRACY KAZALEH relates the quest that unites the infamous rogue's gallery in THE TREASURE OF CAPTAIN CANNONSMOKE. 

And what would a tribute site be without a new comic strip adventure?   MAJOR CRIME SQUAD updates twice a week, with art by JOE STATON, script by MIKE CURTIS, and inks and lettering by SHELLEY PLEGER.  Over the course of the website's life, join Tracy. Lizz and Sam as they face off against two Gould Ghouls long thought dead, and solve the mystery of why Diet Smith's SPACE COUPE was grounded!

And lots more on Tracy's history to come!

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The PLAINCLOTHES site is run by webmaster KIM MC FARLAND, and DICK TRACY is copyrighted by Tribune Media.  His real life adventures can be viewed daily at
http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy 

[boox909]

Thanks for sharing this with us!