Dick Tracy #1 From Mad Cave Studios in April 2024

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Michael Moreci posts “DICK TRACY is BACK! We are bringing the detective yellow back to life with an all-new, hardboiled noir ongoing series.”

Michael Moreci posts to TwitterX: “DICK TRACY is BACK! We are bringing the detective yellow back to life with an all-new, hardboiled noir ongoing series. I can’t express how excited I am for this series. Everyone involved is doing next level work, honoring and evolving the DT legacy. Catch Issue #1 this April!” It has been seven years coming. Here’s the story as Bleeding Cool has it… up to now.

In 2017, Graeme McMillan writing for The Hollywood Reporter completely reported that Archie Comics was to publish a Dick Tracy Year One-style story written by then-Archie Comics co-president Alex Segura, Hoax Hunters‘ Michael Moreci and Archie artist Thomas Pitilli. Alex Segura was quoted saying “I was thinking about Dick Tracy and how cool it would be to have him back in comic form. I shot Scott Cameron at Tribune [Content Agency] a quick email asking about the rights, not expecting it to go anywhere, but it turned out the Tribune guys were looking to get Tracy back into comics, so everything rolled from there.” The Hollywood Reporter acknowledged that the primary subject of the brand new sequence, with these covers by Pitilli and Francesco Francavilla, could be obtainable in April 2018.

It was not, cancelled per week after it was introduced, as a result of a “licensing error.”  In 2018, Rich Tommas, Mike Allred, Lee Allred, and Laura Allred printed their very own Dick Tracy revival at IDW.

Also, IDW printed the Complete Dick Tracy volumes 1 to 29 during the last decade plus, however the first few have been out of print for a while now. Clover Press, run by Ted Adams who printed IDW again then, now has the rights with The Library Of American Comics, to reprint these authentic volumes and is reformating the primary six volumes to match the identical bigger dimension that IDW upgraded the road to from quantity 7 onwards.

Graeme McMillan left THR and commenced writing for Popverse and he “exclusively” ran just about the identical story as he did six years in the past. Just this time Dick Tracy is by Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, and Geraldo Borges, and now from Mad Cave Comics. No point out in the article of the 2017 try, nor what occurred to beforehand introduced artist Thomas Pitilli. But they do now a artistic guide Chantelle Aimée Osman.

While the 2017 publishing try is not talked about, Alex Segura is quoted as  saying “This has been a long time coming…  It’s been a winding road to not only get the rights to publish new stories starring the iconic detective” whereas Moreci says “Alex, Chantelle, and I have been pursuing Dick Tracy for many years”. Graeme experiences that “The Dick Tracy comic book license has been held by Segura, Moreci, and Osman for some time”. But not, it appears, in 2018.

The new Dick Tracy #1 will debut in April 2024 from Mad Cave Studios and can lead their upcoming solicitations.

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