Presenting the forth volume of IDW Publishing's deluxe hardcover collection of Chester Gould's timeless comic strip, Dick Tracy. Volume Four once again contains over 500 comic strips from the series' early years, this time covering material that originally ran from July 1936 through January 1938. -The Library of American Comics is the world's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Award nominations and three wins for best book.

Author Biography

The son of a newspaperman, Chester Gould was born in Pawnee, Oklahoma in 1900. He produced a pair of forgettable comic strips before creating "Plainsclothes Tracy" - changed to "Dick Tracy" - in 1931, and continued as its mastermind for an astonishing 46 years, until his retirement in 1977.