Dick Tracy is a square-jawed police detective who fights a rogues' gallery of grotesque criminals, with names like Flattop, Pruneface, The Brow and Mumbles, using the latest scientific methods and gadgets. His two-way wrist radio, introduced in 1946, anticipated the smartwatch by about seventy years.
Gould's art is stark and angular, and his villains are some of the most memorable in comics. The strip was also one of the most violent of its time, with criminals dying in horrible ways. It was filmed in 1990 with Warren Beatty and a lot of prosthetic make-up.
