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Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror, and was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977, and various artists and writers have continued it. Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of films, including Dick Tracy in which Warren Beatty played the lead in 1990. Tom De Haven praised Gould's Dick Tracy as an "outrageously funny American Gothic", while Brian Walker described it as a "ghoulishly entertaining creation" which had "gripping stories filled with violence and pathos". Comic strip Creation and early years Basing the character on U.S. federal agent Eliot Ness, Gould drafted an idea for a detective named "Plainclothes Tracy" and sent it to Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Patterson suggested changing the hero's name to Dick Tracy, and he also put forward an opening storyline in which Tracy joined the police after his girlfriend's father was murdered by robbers. Gould agreed to these ideas, and Dick Tracy was first published on October 4, 1931. The strip was instantly popular and was soon appearing in newspapers across the United States. The strip's popularity also resulted in the creation of numerous Dick Tracy merchandise, including novelizations, toys, and games. In April 1937, a poll of adult comic strip readers in Fortune voted Dick Tracy their third favorite comic strip after Little Orphan Annie and Popeye. However, Dick Tracy was also attacked by some journalists as being too violent, a criticism that would dog Gould throughout his time on the strip. Evolution of the strip On January 13, 1946, the two-Way Wrist Radio was introduced; it would become one of the strip's most immediately recognizable icons. This radio wristwatch, worn by Tracy and members of the police force, inspired Martin Cooper's invention of the mobile phone and may have inspired later smartwatches. The two-Way Wrist Radio was upgraded to a two-Way Wrist TV in 1964. This development also led to the introduction of an important supporting character, Diet Smith, an eccentric industrialist who financed the development of this equipment. In late 1948, a botched security detail led to the death of the semi-regular character Brilliant, the blind inventor of the Two-Way Wrist Radio (among other devices) whereupon Chief Brandon, Dick Tracy's superior on the police force and a presence in the strip since 1931, resigned in shame and Pat Patton was promoted to police chief in Brandon's place on Tracy's recommendation after declining promotion himself, previously having been Tracy's buffoonish partner. A new character was introduced named Sam Catchem to take Patton's place as Tracy's sidekick. The 1950s Gould introduced topical story lines about television, juvenile delinquency, graft, organized crime, and other developments in American life during the 1950s; and elements of soap opera depicted Dick, Tess, and Junior (along with the Tracys' baby daughter Bonnie Braids) at home as a family. Depictions of family life alternated with the story's crime drama, as in the kidnapping of Bonnie Braids by fugitive Crewy Lou, or Junior's girlfriend Model being accidentally killed by her brother. Gould incurred some controversy when he had Tracy live in an unaccountably ostentatious manner on a police officer's salary, and he responded with a story wherein Tracy was accused of corruption and had to explain the origin of his possessions in detail. In his book-length examination of the strip, Dick Tracy – The Official Biography, Jay Maeder suggested that Gould's critics were unsatisfied by his explanation. Nevertheless, the controversy eventually faded, and the cartoonist reduced exposure to Tracy's home life. Tracy's cases generally incriminated independent operators rather than organized crime—with a few exceptions, such as Big Boy, a fictionalized version of Al Capone and the strip's first villain. Tracy contended with a series of big-time mobsters in the 1950s, such as the King, George "Mr. Crime" Alpha, Odds Zonn, and Willie "The Fifth" Millyun, after events like the Kefauver Hearings. As Tess faded into the background, Tracy took, as his assistant, the rookie policewoman Lizz Worthington. From 1956 to 1964, the Dick Tracy Sunday page was accompanied by a topper humor strip called The Gravies and drawn by Gould and his assistants. The 1950s are often considered the strip's artistic and commercial prime, which is thought to come to an end with the 1959 story with the villains The Fifth and his colleague, Flyface. In that story, The Fifth was Gould's criticism of the constitutional right to silence with the gangster invoking that right for any question, which his cohort and legal representation Flyface was a caricature of lawyers as a repellent man constantly swarmed by flies. In that story, Gould's creative weaknesses began to become more obvious with his vitriolic condemnation of the rights of the accused and any new restraint on police practices no matter how justified and his grotesque style for his character began to alienate contemporary readers enough to prompt newspapers to drop the strip. Space period As technology progressed, the methods that Tracy and the police used to track and capture criminals took the form of increasingly fanciful atomic-powered gadgets developed by Diet Smith Industries. This eventually led to the 1960s advent of the Space Coupe, a spacecraft with a magnetic propulsion system. This marked the beginning of the strip's "Space Period," which saw Tracy and friends having adventures on the Moon and meeting Moon Maid, the daughter of the leader of a race of humanoid people living in "Moon Valley" in 1964. After an eventual sharing of technological information, Moon technology became standard issue on Tracy's police force, including air cars, flying cylindrical vehicles. The villains became even more exaggerated in power, resulting in an escalating series of stories that no longer resembled the urban crime drama roots of the strip. During this period, Tracy met famed cartoonist Chet Jade, creator of the comic strip Sawdust, in which the only characters are talking dots. One of the new characters, Mr. Intro, was only manifested as a disembodied voice. His goal was world domination in the vein of a James Bond villain. Tracy eventually used an atomic laser beam to annihilate Intro and his island base. Junior married Moon Maid in October 1964. Their daughter Honey Moon Tracy had antennae and magnetic hands. In the spring of 1969, Tracy was offered the post of Chief of Police in Moon Valley. However, he ended up back on Earth when the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 showed that the moon was barren of all life. Many of the accoutrements of the space period stories remained for many years afterward, such as the Space Coupe and m.... Discover the Tracy St John popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tracy St John books.
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Mine to Keep
Tracy St. JohnOn Earth, he was known as the Warden, and his punishment of prisoners was legendary. Reprogrammed by the president of CyberServe as an assistant in the office…and as her chief rese...
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Alien Hostage
Tracy St. JohnTasha Salter is caught in a quandary: she wants to fall in love, but past trauma keeps her from commitment. The only people she trusts are her family, especially in this time of tr...
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Children of the Eighth Realm
T. W. JacobsThe orphans of Halfer Home harbor little hope for the future. Despised by their human and elf minders alike, most will end up in prison or dead once they leave the orphanage. If th...
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Secret War
Tracy St. JohnFinally home on Kalquor, Dramok Ilid is haunted by his encounter with the Darks, which he barely survived. His struggle far from over, Ilid’s sanity and the empire’s existence hang...
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Irene
Tracy St. JohnIrene Jonson is a rising star in opera, thanks to Earth forcing her to leave her parents as a teen to join a prestigious opera company. Years later, she loves music, but she wants ...
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Joseph
Tracy St. JohnReleased from a criminal psychiatric unit on the planet Kalquor, Joseph Walker starts his life over with the fierce Nobek who scares and entices him in equal measure. Coming from a...
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Clan and Crown
Tracy St. JohnAs Crown Prince of the Kalquorian Empire, Dramok Clajak seems to have everything he could possibly want. He lives a life of carefree adventure, with scores of lovers to indulge him...
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Clan, Honor, and Empire
Tracy St. JohnDramok Rajhir has never had to go without. He’s been blessed with the best schooling, a prestigious pedigree, a fine home, plus all the intimate companionship a young Kalquorian ma...
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Alien Indiscretions
Tracy St. JohnCissy Salter is more than ready to shed Earth’s repression when she moves to the planet Kalquor. She leaps headlong into drinking, partying, and liaisons with young alien men. She ...
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Clan and Conscience
Tracy St. JohnFighting murderous enemies. Battling each other. It’s the perfect recipe for romance, Kalquorianstyle.On the surface, young Dramok Ospar has it all: money, prestige, power. Yet wha...
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Clan and Conviction
Tracy St. JohnThe drug Delir is sweeping the Kalquorian Empire, leaving madness and death in its wake. Investigator Dramok Gelan has already lost his enforcer partner in a deadly shootout becaus...
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Built to Last
Tracy St. JohnVictor was a cyborg spy during the corporate wars that devastated Earth. Now he’s a refitted demo model for CyberServe, spotlighting the services a repurposed cyborg can offer…in l...
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Sister Katherine
Tracy St. JohnA Clans of Kalquor story. The Earth/Kalquor War seems far away to Sister Katherine and the nuns of the convent on Europa. That changes in an instant when an enemy spyship arrives a...
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Made to Order
Tracy St. JohnThey called him the Wall, part of a cyborg army that terrorized humans during a long war waged by those intent on wielding power. When Tosha Cameron, owner of a multibillion corpor...
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On the Edge of Nowhere
T. W. JacobsInquisitive Gina and her impulsive best friend Mattie know better than to enter abandoned Hungry House. The mansion on the edge of Nowhere, Georgia, has a reputation for ‘eating’ t...
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Alien Embrace
Tracy St. JohnAmelia Ryan fled Earth’s fanatically religious government to live quietly among the aliens of Plasius. Her life of peace shatters when a threeman clan from the planet Kalquor kidna...
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Alien Refuge
Tracy St. JohnAll Iris Jenson wants is a safe place to raise her autistic sixyearold son Thomas. She thinks she’s found it on Haven, an Earther colony located within the Kalquorian Empire’s bord...
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Alien Caged
Tracy St. JohnFor most, the Earth/Kalquor War ended years ago. Yet veteran destroyer captain Zemos and clanmates Oret and Miragin have been captured by a renegade Earther battlecruiser. They’ve ...
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Michaela
Tracy St. JohnMichaela Blake has lived with a secret her whole life. Born an intersex, she’s hidden in plain sight from Earth’s religious tyranny, posing as a male to avoid being discovered and ...
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Clan and Commit
Tracy St. JohnIn one day, Dramok Bacoj realizes his cherished dream only to have it snatched away. Then he meets the perfect man, Imdiko Vax. Unfortunately, Vax is a firm believer in career befo...
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Alien Slave
Tracy St. JohnThis is a reissue. No substantial changes from the original have been made.Dani Watson is a brothel worker on the planet Dantovon. Having escaped postArmageddon Earth, she’s resign...
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Iliana
Tracy St. JohnIliana Rossi’s reluctance to join a Kalquorian clan comes from a terrible loss that leaves no room in her heart for any men. Dodging the alien threeman clans eager for a Earther ma...
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Righteous Fury
Tracy St. JohnKimi Furio has lost it all: her family, her best friend, and her job. Why keep going when there’s nothing left to live for? When an alien from another dimension offers her a chance...
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Clan and Crave
Tracy St. JohnNobek Sletran never took Imdiko Conyod’s infatuation seriously when he rescued him years before. When Conyod shows up in his life again, a strong and successful man instead of a tr...
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Infiltration
Tracy St. JohnThe alien force dubbed the Darks has grabbed control of key positions on Kalquor and the Galactic Council of Planets. Other leaders are still unaware of the threat among them. The ...
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Shadows Approach
Tracy St. JohnIn the aftermath of the Kalquorian civil war and the defeat of the Bi’is invasion fleet, the empire has enjoyed peace. A new Earth has been born. A Kalquorian leads the Galactic Co...
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Maryam
Tracy St. JohnMaryam left Earth’s repressive regime and her ruined dreams years ago. She lives on an alien space station, trying to forget her disappointments. Then a young, pregnant Kalquorian ...
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Alien Outcast
Tracy St. JohnShe escaped to Kalquor to warn the empire…but did she bring its destruction instead?When a rogue Kalquorian raider snags a Bi’isil cruiser in Empire space, the outlaw crew is hopin...
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Matthew
Tracy St. JohnMatthew Larsen should be happy. Reunited with the Nobek he fell in love with years ago, welcomed into a clan determined to give him a better life, he has everything he never imagin...
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Bernadette
Tracy St. JohnCaptain Bernadette Miller was a nun on the moon Europa, hiding from a painful past. Now she hunts the galaxy for the Kalquorian who made her stop running from herself. When she get...
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How Lovely the Ruins
Annie Chagnot & Emi IkkandaThis wideranging collection of inspirational poetry and prose offers readers solace, perspective, and the courage to persevere.In times of personal hardship or collective anxiety, ...
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The Seeker of Lost Paintings
Sarah FreethyA sophisticated and thrilling historical pageturner about love and art spanning Geneva, Rome and London perfect for fans of Christy Lefteri and Victoria Hislop. Three ...
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Clan and Covenant
Tracy St. JohnInitially unsure about their impending arranged union, Dramok Korkla and Nobek Raxstad have grown to care for each other. They’re impatient to begin their life together when their ...
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Alien Salvation
Tracy St. JohnLindsey McInness and her parents are barely surviving on postArmageddon Earth. When a Kalquorian shuttle crashes nearby, Lindsey has no choice but to offer herself to the clan on b...
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Alien Revolt
Tracy St. JohnClan Piras has risked everythingand lost everythingto get close to Holy Leader Browning Copeland. Piras, Kila, and Lokmi are in a race against time to prevent Copeland and the Basm...
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To Clan and Conquer
Tracy St. JohnStarting a clan is not on ambitious First Officer Tranis’ agenda; he is too busy building a career in the Kalquorian fleet. It’s a good thing since the Nobek who captures his inter...
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SAM
Jonathan WaldmanA true story of innovation that “reads like a movie” (Seth Godin), centered on a scrappy team of engineersfar from the Silicon Valley limelightand their quest to revolutionize the ...
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Alien Conquest
Tracy St. JohnCassidy Hamilton doesn’t think life can get any worse after being sequestered in a convent on Europa. A Kalquorian invasion quickly changes her mind, and she barely eludes her peop...
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Clan and Command
Tracy St. JohnLosing the one man he loved convinced Piras he would never have a chance at happiness. He is too different from the other members of the Dramok breed to attract a Nobek warrior and...
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Tina
Tracy St. JohnAspirant Tina Novak, living on Europa’s convent colony, has no place to call her own. First rejected by her father, now being sent away by Mother Superior, where can a young woman ...
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Ravenous Virtue
Tracy St. JohnRaven Virtue is a ranger with the National Park Service, trying to bring a human slave trafficker to justice. When he slips away due to a technicality, she knows more innocent wome...
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Gabriel
Tracy St. JohnAfter fleeing Earth’s Mercy Colony six years before, Gabriel Rossi and his sister Iliana have carved out a decent life on a remote Adraf space station. Each avoids contact with oth...
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Revelations
Tracy St. JohnBlythe Nelson is certain Clan Deram is keeping something from her. The clan of spies finds it difficult to stay a step ahead of the wily reporter who’s winning their hearts. What t...
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Alien Rule
Tracy St. JohnMarked for execution, Jessica McInness knows joining the enemy is her only hope for survival. When Kalquor’s crown princes arrive to rescue her, she discovers the three alien men a...