DICK TRACY V OLUME 23: 1966 –1967

STORIES AND ART BY CHESTER GOULD

THE LIBRARY OF AMERICAN COMICS

EDITED AND DESIGNED BY Dean Mullaney

ASSOCIATE EDITOR Bruce Canwell • ART DIRECTOR Lorraine Turner

INTRODUCTION BY Max Allan Collins CONSULTING EDITOR

AFTERWORD BY Jeffrey Kersten ASSOCIATE EDITOR

STRIP RESTORATION ASSISTANT Joseph Ketels

PUBLISHED BY ORIGINATING DICK TRACY SERIES EDITOR Ted Adams

Special thanks to Jean Gould O’Connell, Ross Fletcher, Scott Cameron, the William Dozier Collection at the American Heritage Center’s Reference Department at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Justin Eisinger, Alonzo Simon, Heritage Auctions, and Don McGregor. LibraryofAmericanComics.com

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