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Sprightly at 75

COMPILED BY NIMI KURIAN

With his trademark square jaw, yellow fedora and a two-way wrist radio, crime-buster extraordinaire Dick Tracy is still catching criminals at the age of 75, says a Reuters report. Tracy admirers have flocked to the Chester Gould-Dick Tracy Museum in this quaint northern Illinois town this month to mark the 75th anniversary of the comic strip hero and remember his creator, Chester Gould. Gould, launched the cartoon in October 1931 and drew the strip until 1977. It offered violent reflections of Prohibition-era lawlessness in a fictional city modeled on Chicago. Big Boy, the strip's first villain, stood in for legendary gangster Al Capone. Later came memorable grotesques such as Flattop Jones, Pruneface and Mrs Pruneface and the Brow.

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