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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 53288411 Things You Might Not Know About Dick Tracy - Mental Floss

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   Mar 26, 2018 · Joe Patterson, who co-edited the Chicago Tribune, liked the idea but thought “Dick Tracy” would be a better name because "Dick" was what people called detectives. The strip debuted on...

2. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › 2015Dick Tracy Turns 25: Why Has Everyone Forgotten the Original ...

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   Jun 15, 2015 · Based on the Chester Gould comic-strip character of the same name, Dick Tracy imagines a stylized, thirties-era world where men are men and bad guys, well, are kind of gloriously deformed...

3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Dick_TracyDick Tracy - Wikipedia

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   Dick Tracy is portrayed as an FBI agent, or "G-Man", based in California rather than as a detective in the police force of a Midwestern city resembling Chicago, and, aside from himself and Junior, no characters from the strip appear in any of the four serials.

4. www.vox.com › 2015/6/17 › 8790397Dick Tracy was unlike any other movie made in 1990 - Vox

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   Jun 17, 2015 · If there’s one reason to revisit Dick Tracy today, it’s that the movie’s visuals are wholly different from those of any comics-based movie of today.

5. collider.com › dick-tracy-anniversary-warrenDick Tracy at 30: The True Story of Warren Beatty's Cult Classic

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   Jun 15, 2020 · 30 years ago Disney released the heavily hyped Warren Beatty vehicle Dick Tracy. We go inside the making of the movie and its strange legacy.

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6. www.denofgeek.com › movies › dick-tracy-long-journeyDick Tracy: The Long Journey of the 1990 Blockbuster

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   Jun 15, 2020 · When Dick Tracy burst onto screens in June 1990, it was heralded as the heir to the previous summer’s comics-to-page blockbuster throne, Batman.

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   Why is 'Dick Tracy' a better name?

   • Joe Patterson, who co-edited the Chicago Tribune, liked the idea but thought “Dick Tracy” would be a better name because "Dick" was what people called detectives. The strip debuted on October 4, 1931 and has been running ever since. 2. IT DEPICTED THE FIRST COMIC STRIP MURDER.

   11 Things You Might Not Know About Dick Tracy | Mental Floss

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   Is Dick Tracy a real person?

   • Dick Tracy is portrayed as an FBI agent, or "G-Man", based in California rather than as a detective in the police force of a Midwestern city resembling Chicago, and, aside from himself and Junior, no characters from the strip appear in any of the four serials.

   Dick Tracy - Wikipedia

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   Is Dick Tracy a comic based movie?

   • That film, Dick Tracy, which turns 25 this week, is a weird footnote in the history of comics-based movies. To study it right now is to find it anachronistic, to label its approach to making comics-based movies as one that just didn’t pan out. And yet there’s much to enjoy and even treasure in Dick Tracy.

   Dick Tracy was unlike any other movie made in 1990 - Vox

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   Is Dick Tracy a good movie?

   • 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".

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   Why is Dick Tracy so popular?

   • Dick Tracy has been a part of the cultural conversation, in fits and starts, for the last 30 years, even without any spin-offs, sequels, or television series (like Batman ). Its primary-colored legacy endured because of the strength (and strangeness) of a single film and a whole bunch of kitschy merchandise.

   Dick Tracy at 30: The True Story of Warren Beatty's Cult Classic - Collider

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   Was Dick Tracy a serialized drama?

   • Dick Tracy may have been the first attempt at a serious serialized drama on the funny pages. When Patterson accepted the pitch, he suggested to Gould that Tracy become a detective as a result of crime hitting close to home.

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8. panelsandprose.com › 2021/02/21 › goulds-dick-tracyGould’s Dick Tracy, 1931- 1977 – Panels & Prose

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   Feb 21, 2021 · Patterson suggested the change of name to the simpler “Dick Tracy” and seemed to understand that Gould’s penchant for violence, grotesque villainy and even sadism mapped well against his vision of the tabloid style.