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Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop...

Dick Tracy is a long-running comic strip featuring a popular and familiar character in American pop culture. Dick Tracy is a hard-hitting, fast-shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of colorful villains, many based on real-life gangsters. ("Dick" is also American slang for detective.) Created by cartoonist Chester Gould, the strip made its debut appearance on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977. Chester Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips, reflecting the violence of 1930s Chicago. Gould also did his best to keep up with the latest in crime fighting techniques and, while Tracy often ends a case in a shootout, he uses forensic science, advanced gadgetry and plain hard thinking to track the bad guy down. It has been suggested that this comic strip was the first example of the police procedural mystery story. Others have noted that actual "whodunit" plots were relatively rare in the stories since the comic strip format is not suited for that kind of plot. The real focus, they argue, is the chase, with a criminal seen