Chester Gould

...in a movie about the character five years later, had filed suit against Tribune after the company claimed that rights to the Chester Gould comic character contractually lapsed if Beatty made "no productive use" of them after an undefined...

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...child, Dorf befriended cartoonists by sending them Christmas cards. During a 1949 trip to Illinois, he paid a surprise visit to Chester Gould, creator of "Dick Tracy," then was speechless when the cartoonist recognized his name, his brother...

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...sampling from the book's first two chapters, there are references to Jean Cocteau, Alfred Hitchcock, Steve Ditko, Gumby, Chester Gould, Jack Kirby, George Lucas, Betty Boop, and Ingmar Bergman. And we haven't even reached the part in the...

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...undercover cop Barry began Monday, March 19, 1934, as one of several strips introduced to compete with Dick Tracy by Chester Gould (no relation). Comics historian Rick Marschall labeled Red Barry as "one of the most individualistic strips...

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...beginnings as the Paris Herald, a European edition of the New York Herald. ► In 1931, the comic strip "Dick Tracy,'' created by Chester Gould, made its debut. ► In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini conferred at Brenner Pass in the...

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...looking for clues and finding at least one) that "Hill Street Blues" and "Law & Order" helped popularize for the genre; Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" comic strip led the way. Simple and basic though they seem, if a police procedural...

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...Polyp -- a pompous architect whose designs have never been built and whose blunt shovel of a head recalls seedier characters from Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" -- in his dilapidated apartment, watching a video of himself having sex with his...

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...radio and the pager. Gross was working on a wrist-watch version of the two-way radio which he showed to Gould. Gould asked Al Gross if he could use this concept in his Dick Tracy comic strip. Gross said yes and in January 1946, Dick Tracy...

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...and comic strips for the base magazine. Kurtzman had planned on being an artist, but his old masters were comic-strip greats Chester Gould (Dick Tracy), Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon), Milton Caniff (Terry and the Pirates), and, most of all,...

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Laugh if you want, but those words are eerily reminiscent of an equally bold prediction by Chester Gould, the man who created Dick Tracy. Gould once stated: "The nation that controls magnetism controls the universe." People scoffed, but...

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