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Dick Tracy #1 From Mad Cave Studios in April 2024

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… so far.

In 2017, Graeme McMillan writing for The Hollywood Reporter exclusively 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 stated that the first issue of the new series, with these covers by Pitilli and Francesco Francavilla, would be available in April 2018.

It was not, cancelled a week after it was announced, due to a "licensing error."  In 2018, Rich Tommas, Mike Allred, Lee Allred, and Laura Allred published their own Dick Tracy revival at IDW.

Also, IDW published the Complete Dick Tracy volumes 1 to 29 over the last decade plus, but the first few have been out of print for some time now. Clover Press, run by Ted Adams who published IDW back then, now has the rights with The Library Of American Comics, to reprint those original volumes and is reformating the first six volumes to match the same larger size that IDW upgraded the line to from volume 7 onwards.

Graeme McMillan left THR and began writing for Popverse and he "exclusively" ran pretty much the same story as he did six years ago. Just this time Dick Tracy is by Alex Segura, Michael Moreci, and Geraldo Borges, and now from Mad Cave Comics. No mention in the article of the 2017 attempt, nor what happened to previously announced artist Thomas Pitilli. But they do now a creative consultant Chantelle Aimée Osman.

While the 2017 publishing attempt isn't mentioned, 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" while Moreci says "Alex, Chantelle, and I have been pursuing Dick Tracy for many years". Graeme reports that "The Dick Tracy comic book license has been held by Segura, Moreci, and Osman for some time". But not, it seems, in 2018.

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

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