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Chester Gould's fertile imagination continues at a breakneck pace, as heintroduces The Brow, Flattop, Shaky, Breathless Mahoney, Measles, Gravel Gertie,B.O. Plenty, and the Summer Sisters! Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, and containing alldaily and Sunday comic strips from March 23, 1944 through September 19, 1945,this volume features an introduction by Max Allan Collins, and includes aspecial feature by Jeff Kersten of the Dick Tracy Museum about the famous radioprogram, "Dick Tracy in B-Flat," starring Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, FrankSinatra, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope!-The Library of American Comics is theworld's #1 publisher of classic newspaper comic strips, with 14 Eisner Awardnominations and three wins for best book. LOAC has become "the gold standard forarchival comic strip reprints...The research and articles provide insight andcontext, and most importantly the glorious reproduction of the material haspreserved these strips for those who knew them and offers a new gateway toadventure for those discovering them for the first time." -Scoop
