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When Dick Tracy creator Chester Gould retired in 1978 after 46 years at the helm, it took two to replace him: crime fiction author Collins (later known for the Nate Heller series and The Road to Perdition) and Fletcher, Gould's longtime assistant. The second volume of Collins Casefiles (for volume 1, see BKL D 15 03) continues their revamping of the classic, but threadbare, strip. Collins returned Tracy to street-level police work and colorful crooks (this volume introduces the nervous Quiver Trembly) and updated it with topical elements: embezzlement by computer, a punk-rock robber, and an air hijacker hoping to free her political-prisoner brother. Sometimes past and present are cleverly combined, as when Tracy confronts an apparent clone of his 1940s foe, Mumbles. Fletcher artfully contemporizes Gould's sparse visual approach, rounding off its more jarring excesses (literally, in the case of Tracy's impossibly squared chin). Collins and Fletcher eventually left the strip, which sank back into mediocrity, but for a while, they breathed new life into a venerable warhorse. Gordon Flagg
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Book Description
Second of several volumes collecting Collins' masterful yet controversial 15-year run.

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