> Dick Tracy is a pivotal character in our
particular
> sub-genre of mystery. Carroll John Daly and
Dashiell
> Hammett may have created the hard-boiled
detective,
> but the visual image we associate with that
figure,
> tall, trim, taciturn, and trench-coated, all under
a
> snap-brim fedora, comes to us courtesy of a
visual
> artist named Chester Gould.
>
Speaking of Hammett and comics, you should also check out the
Secret Agent X-9 strips he did with Alex Raymond. Likewise,
another good strip from a hardboiled prose writer is Mike
Hammer. The collected edition of his stories was reprinted in
the '80s in two volumes and I think they're still easy to
get.
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