Sunday, September 03, 2006 08:05:17 AM
NEWS
Dick Tracy Is Turning 75
TAKE A TRIP DOWN MEMORY LANE
On September 26th, to celebrate Dick Tracyâs 75th anniversary,
Classic Media will release a 4-disc set with a limited edition
Dick Tracy comic book on pack. It will be the first time ever that
the entire, animated series will be offered on DVD. This classic
cartoonâs dashing title character worked with his incidental crew
of deputies to send notorious cartoon villains to lock up. Dickâs
dastardly foes include a true Rogues Gallery of miscreants:
Pruneface, a Nazi agent with a severely sun-damaged face; Mumbles,
a singing conman with the inability to speak coherently; and Flattop,
a half-witted assassin with a flat, misshapen skull. And who could
ever forget Tracyâs beloved, Tess Trueheart? Could these crazy kids
ever make things work?
The Adventures of Dick Tracy originally aired on TV from 1961 - 1964,
with local personalities introducing the cartoons. The voice of
Dick Tracy was performed by character actor Everett Sloan, with
other notable characters being voiced by the likes of Paul Frees,
also known as the voice of Boris Badanov from the Rocky and Bullwinkle
cartoons, and Mel Blanc, of Bugs Bunny fame.
Legendary Creator
The creator of Dick Tracy, Chester Gould, arrived in Chicago with the dream
of becoming a published cartoonist. After ten years of submitting ideas to
theChicago Tribune, Dick Tracy was picked up and first published in the
Detroit Mirror in 1931, followed by the New York Daily News and finally
the Chicago Tribune. Tracy later found his voice and animated
features when the cartoon aired in 1961.
The suave gumshoe was more than just a popular cartoon; it was Gouldâs
creative outlet that contained imaginative predecessors to real-life
police tactics and equipment. Gould created the Closed Circuit TV
Police Showup in 1953, real suspect lineups began in 1954; his
Electronic Telephone Number Pickup was drawn in 1954, the Caller
ID was patented in 1982; and the most interesting of all of Gouldâs
inventions was the Magnetic Space Coupe which took Tracy to the moon
in 1962, seven years before the first actual moon landing in 1969.
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