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Dick Tracy: The Thirties, Tommy Guns and Hard Times
Published in Hardcover by Chelsea House Publications (1980)
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Love: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Published in Paperback by Dover Pubns (1998)
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Love- a book for the heart must read
This id one of the greatest bookes i have ever read. It had some great quotes from famous authors and some not so famous. A must read for this extremely low price.
Friendship: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
Published in Paperback by Dover Pubns (1999)
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From trite to terrific
The quotations in the book encompass a gamut of variances. From those so profound you have to read them twice to those that you groan at and wonder what possessed the editor to add them. Overall the book is worth the money... all 80 cents.
Abbie an' Slats
Published in Paperback by Ken Pierce Books (01 January, 1983)
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Alley Oop
Published in Paperback by Pinnacle Books (1983)
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The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy
Published in Paperback by Chelsea House Publishing (1981)
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Dick Tracy
Published in Hardcover by Chartwell House (1990)
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Great Comics
Published in Hardcover by Crown Pub (1972)
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Jewish Wit and Wisdom (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Mother: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Yet much of the first-year work in this collection could have been dispensed with. I enjoyed the Hammettesque story of Texie Garcia, a gun moll blackmailing a politician. (Texie: "Think what you could do with a thousand dollars." Tracy: "Yeah? I could roll it up in a wad and cram it right down your slippery throat.") Ditto the Lindbergh-like story of Big Boy Caprice kidnapping Buddy Waldorf Jr., with its knock-down dragout fight at the end. But editor Herb Galewitz himself admits that the stories of Tracy's demotion to a beat cop; con man turned kidnapper Broadway Bates, who resembles Batman's foe the Penguin; bond forger Alec Penn; and dope smuggler-blackmailer Kenneth Grebb are somewhat below par ...
Of course, after a year the strip really came to life, and gained readers and newspapers, when Junior first appeared. This was also the occasion for introducing the thug Steve the Tramp, the first of the strip's great villains. He and counterfeiter Stooge Viller dominate the second year, even escaping prison together.
The editors would have been well-advised to drop much of the first year, and their selections from the first six months of the Sunday strips, which weren't yet connected to the daily continuity. The space saved would have been better spent on some later stories such as Junior's mother, or Jean Penfield's fight with Tess Trueheart.