Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Lemuria – Dog Tracy

Heroes of Lemuria Part 15
Dog Tracy – Dick Tracy
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Dog_Tracy#axzz7Xnxdw7aI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tracy

Dog Tracy is a detective operating in the Heap. He is a member of the League of Exemplary Personages. His girlfriend Tessa Truhart (aka The Shadoe) is the Lab Assistant for the Heap PD.

Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring Dick Tracy (originally Plainclothes Tracy), a tough and intelligent police detective created by Chester Gould. It made its debut on Sunday, October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror, and it was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Gould wrote and drew the strip until 1977, and various artists and writers have continued it. Dick Tracy has also been the hero in a number of films, including Dick Tracy in which Warren Beatty played the lead in 1990. Tom De Haven praised Gould’s Dick Tracy as an “outrageously funny American Gothic”, while Brian Walker described it as a “ghoulishly entertaining creation” which had “gripping stories filled with violence and pathos”.

Basing the character on U.S. federal agent Eliot Ness, Gould drafted an idea for a detective named “Plainclothes Tracy” and sent it to Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. Patterson suggested changing the hero’s name to Dick Tracy, and he also put forward an opening storyline in which Tracy joined the police after his girlfriend’s father was murdered by robbers. Gould agreed to these ideas, and Dick Tracy was first published on October 4, 1931. The strip was instantly popular and was soon appearing in newspapers across the United States. The strip’s popularity also resulted in the creation of numerous Dick Tracy merchandise, including novelizations, toys, and games. In April 1937, a poll of adult comic strip readers in Fortune voted Dick Tracy their third favorite comic strip after Little Orphan Annie and Popeye. However, Dick Tracy was also attacked by some journalists as being too violent, a criticism that would dog Gould throughout his time on the strip.

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Dick Tracy 1990 movie poster and still (c)1990 Touchstone Pictures.
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