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Calling All Crimestoppers: Errata Noted!
Loyal Dick Tracy reader Kendall Smiley pointed out that the Sunday on page 111 of Volume 19 contained a duplicate panel, which meant that there’s also a panel missing. Here’s the correct, complete...
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Calling All Space-Age Beauties!
Finally! The eight letters that forever changed America’s favorite police strip… M…O…O…N……M…A…I…D! It’s (literally!) out of this world action in the twenty-first volume of our COMPLETE DICK TRACY — on...
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Head’s Up: October is Dick Tracy’s 85th Birthday!
Half a year after Moon Maid entered Dick Tracy’s (and Junior’s!) life, the syndicate’s nationwide contest attracted many contestants. Here’s the announcement ad in Editor & Publisher from June 6,...
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Time Changes Everything — and Everyone!
In my house, when I was a boy growing up, we always had a “junk drawer,” that catchall where everything went that didn’t quite fit anywhere else. When my siblings or I would complain that we couldn’t...
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Movietone News (The CTNYN Edition)
Hollywood has been on my mind a lot the past few weeks. It started while assembling the week’s worth of puzzles that ran in this space a short time ago; each installment contained one Hollywood...
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A Bicentennial Look Back
During a cold, snowy first week of 2017 here in New England, two things occurred to me: [1] we’re overdue for a Fantasy Comics Page in this space, and [2] 2017 marks the 241st anniversary of the...
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A World of “Hurt”
While there is much to recommend in this science fictional modern age, the Good Old Days had at least some advantages. One of them was the ability to walk into an honest-to-Pete bookstore and pick out...
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When “Quick Takes” Meet “Coming Attractions”—
— You get a piece like this one, in which we answer the often-asked question, “What’s ahead for LOAC in the months to come?” Firstuvall, we got your space opera right here! As 2017 unfolds you’ll see...
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Episode 001 with special guest Bruce Canwell
Welcome to the very first episode of the Library of American Comics & EuroComics Podcast, hosted by Dean Mullaney and Kurtis Findlay! In this episode, Dean and Kurtis discuss Disney’s Christmas...
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Episode 002 with special guest Lorraine Turner
Dean and Kurtis are back for the second episode of the Library of American Comics & EuroComics Podcast! In this episode, Dean and Kurtis discuss Li’l Abner, Vol. 9, Dick Tracy, Vol. 24, Superman:...
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2017: The LOAC Year in Review
The Library of American Comics marked its tenth year of publication this summer, and using this milestone as a launching point, 2017 was the year LOAC took the comics world by storm. The familiar “word...
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Back to the Shelves
Several years ago we took some time in this space to show you what my LOAC bookshelf looked like. I shelve my books in alphabetical order by author, or by publisher where that makes more sense — for...
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Buongiorno from Bologna!
Here’s LOAC Art Director Lorraine Turner with Francesco Meo of the Italian comics publisher Cosmo Editoriale. We had lunch with Francesco today in Bologna, renewing the friendship we established at...
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Episode 008 with special guest Jeff Kersten
Dean Mullaney is on vacation so LOAC Associate Editor Bruce Canwell joins Kurtis Findlay for another episode of the Library of American Comics & EuroComics Podcast! In this episode, Bruce and...
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JUST ANNOUNCED: Dick Tracy, Vol. 25: 1969-1970
This coming December, the Dynamic Detective wraps up another decade of upholding the law in The Library of American Comics’ THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY, Vol. 25: 1969-1970! As if being a detective wasn’t...
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Barry One, Pearl Two
A few months ago in this space I showed you some photos of our LOAC books, arrayed on my bookshelves — you can see it here, if you’d like a refresher. More recently, we received some impressive...
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Worlds Collide
On Sunday, June 24, the world of Dick Tracy was paid a visit by a very special guest. For Better or For Worse’s Michael Patterson attended Junior Tracy’s book signing, hoping to get his copy signed....
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JUST ANNOUNCED: The Complete Dick Tracy, Vol. 26: 1971-1972
Your favorite yellow-clad, hard-boiled copper is back for more in THE COMPLETE DICK TRACY, VOL. 26: 1971-1972! Coming in June 2019, this new collection presents hundreds of Chester Gould strips that...
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A Coming Attraction of a Different Sort
The holiday hustle and bustle is affecting a lot of us (and a lot of you, too, I bet!), but though 2018 still has nineteen days left as I pen these words, it’s not too early to be looking forward to...
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The “LOAC 2018 Year in Review” Sandwich: A Ten-Book Filling Between Two CANYONs
Early in each new year we look back at the prior twelve months in LOAC-Land. It provides our readers with a handy one-stop checklist of our most recent books — and it helps remind us of what we were up...
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