Dick Tracy is a comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 detective

Detective

A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes"...

. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror

Detroit Mirror

The Detroit Mirror was a daily morning tabloid newspaper published in Detroit, Michigan. Itceased publication in August 1932 without warning, only giving a week of severance pay to its shocked employees.At that time it had a circulation of 170,000...

. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate

Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services is a syndication company owned by the Tribune Company.The company has two divisions, "News and Features" and "Entertainment Products"...

. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977.
Chester Gould introduced a raw violence to comic strips, reflecting the violence of 1930s Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

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