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This particular story is a novelization of the 1990 warren beatty movie dick tracy. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977, and various artists and writers have continued it. He made a leap into movies in 1937, when ralph byrd portrayed him in a 15part serial from republic pictures. While he played the part perfectlyformer dick tracy comics scripter max allan collins. The character of dick tracy is a hard hitting, fast shooting, and supremely intelligent police detective who has matched wits with a variety of often grotesquely ugly villains.
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