To add further, we never had Tracy in the papers (and still don’t), so this is my first experience reading it “live”. Tried reading it a few years back, but wasn’t interested..Wish we had gotten him in the paper, would’ve loved to have read the Collins stuff back then. His stories in that book were my favorites, and it’s probably going to be a LONG time before they make it into the current hardcover collections.
@lilyslore“What was the first Dick Tracy story everyone began with?”.My parents got me The Dick Tracy Casebook for Christmas sometime in the early 90s. To be specific, the first story in it is The Hotel Murders from 1936, with Athnel Jones.
On a related note, shame that there’s not many episodes of the Dick Tracy radio show online, the Black Pearl of Osiris being the only (mostly) complete one. Interestingly, that one was reworked into a Superman story (or maybe the Superman one was first, I never compared the dates). I think Tracy/Superman also shared an episode where Junior/Jimmy was freezing to death in the snow (the Pitchbend story, I think?) but didn’t check that one either (it might’ve just been a Superman episode that got mixed in somewhere where it didn’t belong).
I’ll have to check out that OTR. I’ve been burning through episodes of Dragnet and I’ll feel pretty empty inside when I run out of them..Hard for me to find good OTRs, since I’m not very familiar with most of them. I’m nowhere near old enough, and only a handful of them did well enough to still be household names today.
“I was lucky, and got back to reading the strip just when Mike & Joe took over.”.Same here. Out of nowhere, mid-April, I got a sudden urge to see what Tracy was up to. Prior to that, the last time I had checked up on him, he was battling DVD/music pirates (which was tackled again recently with BB Eyes).
To add further, we never had Tracy in the papers (and still don’t), so this is my first experience reading it “live”. Tried reading it a few years back, but wasn’t interested..Wish we had gotten him in the paper, would’ve loved to have read the Collins stuff back then. His stories in that book were my favorites, and it’s probably going to be a LONG time before they make it into the current hardcover collections.