On this day, Oct. 4, 1931, sharp-shooting detective Dick Tracy makes his comic strip debut.
The cartoon in the Detroit Mirror, created by artist Chester Gould, was a new comic concept. Tracy was a hard-hitting police detective who fought colorful villains, thugs like B.B. Eyes, Flattop Jones and Pruneface.
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