Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy Volume 3: Dailies & Sundays 1935-1936

I expected the grotesques associated with Dick Tracybut was blindsided by the snappy dialog and three dimensional characters which compensated for a certain paucity of plots. Respect to the suppliers who got the book to me in record time.

The third book in the Dick Tracy series brings together the strips from 1935 to 1936. By this time you can really see the strip building to its golden age of the 1940s as Chester Gould comes up with story lines ranging from bank fraud to arson to jail break. The book also has one of the few who dunnit stories in Dick Tracy and it is a story that is remembered fondly by Dick Tracy fans. The strips also introduce Juinors long lost mother who is in the strips for a short time. Her introduction helps to add to the character of Juinor who for a long time was one dimensional. Again there is no iconic villians but like the second book you just don't miss them and the book always manages to keep you gripped. I can't wait for the fourth book.

What can I say. the third volume of this excellent series

A great comic strip that holds up beautifully. Once you start you are hooked. There is a major drawback, though.The sundays are almost impossible to read as they are cruelly reduced in size. An owl would have trouble. You must somehow enlarge them to appreciate them.Still, a 5 star book as are all Tracy books. And most of the great stories - and villains - are on the horizon in volumes 4 and 5.This is the Golden Age of early (pre 1940) comic strips. Also highly recommended are... Terry and the Pirates Little Orphan Annie Krazy Kat Gasoline Alley - possibly the greatest comic strip Moon Mullins - published by a small publisher but worth the troubleHopefully we may soon see The Gumps, Ella Cinders, Bringing Up Father, Polly and Her Pals and Barney Google.

Chester Gould still tells stories with simplified plots in which coincidences play an essential rule. Anyway the characters are evolving and the edition is very pleasant. The only drawback is that the Sunday tables are too small and the script is hardly readable. Fortunately you can follow the plot also skipping the Sunday tables.

This is the third volume of the series that proposes to reprint the complete run of the Dick Tracy comic strip. This particular volume prints the strips from January 30, 1935 to July 12, 1936. Some of the notable events in this volume include: Junior reuniting with his mother, Boris Arson escaping from jail, Dick Tracy temporarily becoming police chief of a small town and Tracy attempting to reform "Lips" Manlis. This is great, exciting stuff, which I recommend to anyone who enjoys vintage adventure comic strips.

This has already been mentioned by other reviewers. There are plenty of melodramatic elements in this volume. Junior being reunited with his mother, the blinding of a cashier at Junior's mother's lunch counter, Pat Patton giving Tracy a blood transfusion to save his life and the conversion of a hoodlum. That about covers this volume and once again, I couldn't put it down and I look forward to beginning volume four!