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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    THE BROTHERHOOD OF RELIGIONS (1913) by Annie Besant.
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  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    I'm reading this atm :

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    Just finished reading it. Really entertaining.
    Though it fizzles out a bit the end, it's great insight into what goes on behind the scenes, all written with Rogers customary wit!
  • MaxCasinoMaxCasino United States
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    I just finished James Bond: Omnibus Volume 001: Based on the novels that inspired the movies. Boy, the Thunderball comic goes by really fast! At least compared to the film.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    A Bond double-header at the moment:

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    This one in dead tree edition

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    And this one on the Kindle
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    BUILDING OF THE COSMOS (1893) by Annie Besant.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Thundy, are you writing a thesis on this Besant woman?
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    No.
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    1929
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    After Blott have read Wilt classic Sharpe, followed by the weaker The Great Pursuit , and now have reached Sharpe’s golden streak. Reading the excellent The Throwback, one of his funniest. More good stuff to come. . .
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited April 2019 Posts: 2,896
    I'm in the middle of this beauty, The Complete Dick Tracy, Volume 14: 1951-53.

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    Several great stories in this one--the conclusion to the manhunt for Crewy Lou (the woman who stole Tracy's baby!), Tonsils (the hack singer who came closest to killing Tracy) and Mr. Crime, and of course Junior falling in love with Model Jones. That last story was a kicker--I won't give anything away, but at the end I was wiping away tears.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Lucky you, @Revelator! I love Dick Tracy. Got intrigued by the strips reprinted in my dad's Penguin Book of Comics, and hooked by the Disney movie soon afterwards.
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited April 2019 Posts: 2,896
    Agent_99 wrote: »
    I love Dick Tracy. Got intrigued by the strips reprinted in my dad's Penguin Book of Comics, and hooked by the Disney movie soon afterwards.

    If you're looking for a good overview/history of the strip, I highly recommend Dick Tracy: The Official Biography by Jay Maeder, which is comprehensive, not afraid to be critical, and well-written.

    The 1950s are often acclaimed as Dick Tracy's best decade in terms of storytelling, so I'm looking forward to future volumes in the complete series. The 1960s are when the strip goes balls-out insane with Moon Maid, the space coupe, Ugly Christine, and Mr. Bribery and his cigar smoking cat.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    Thanks - I'll try to track down The Official Biography!

    I've never managed to find any of the Moon Period strips. I hear a lot about how terrible they are but I'd like the chance to judge for myself...
  • RevelatorRevelator
    edited April 2019 Posts: 2,896
    Agent_99 wrote: »
    I've never managed to find any of the Moon Period strips. I hear a lot about how terrible they are but I'd like the chance to judge for myself...

    The moon period strips have now been reprinted in the Complete Dick Tracy series, starting from Volume 21. I've read some of the earlier reprints and my impression was that Gould's storytelling skills had either deteriorated or weren't suited to the sci-fi elements. On the plus side, the artwork from the mid/late 60s is perhaps the best in the strip's history--gorgeously stylized stuff.

    On a Bond-related note, I believe Fleming mentions Dick Tracy at least twice.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    I found one mention from Fleming.
    For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming, 1960.
    "For Your Eyes Only    "
    The Headquarters of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are in the Department of Justice alongside Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. Like most Canadian public buildings, the Department of Justice is a massive block of grey masonry built to look stodgily important and to withstand the long and hard winters. Bond had been told to ask at the front desk for the Commissioner and to give his name as 'Mr James'. He did so, and a young fresh-faced RCMP corporal, who looked as if he did not like being kept indoors on a warm sunny day, took him up in the lift to the third floor and handed him over to a sergeant in a large tidy office which contained two girl secretaries and a lot of heavy furniture.
    The sergeant spoke on an intercom and there was a ten minutes' delay during which Bond smoked and read a recruiting pamphlet which made the Mounties sound like a mixture between a dude ranch, Dick Tracy and Rose Marie. When he was shown in through the connecting door a tall youngish man in a dark blue suit, white shirt and black tie turned away from the window and came towards him. "Mr James?" the man smiled thinly. "I'm Colonel, let's say — er — Johns."

    And one from the films.
    A View to a Kill, John Glen, 1985.
    Police Captain: You're under arrest.

    Stacey: Wait. This is James Stock of the London Financial Times.

    OO7: Actually I'm with the British Secret Service. The name is Bond. James Bond.

    Police Captain: Is he?

    Stacey: Are you?

    OO7: Yes.

    Police Captain: And I'm Dick Tracy and you're still under arrest.

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  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Alex Toth-one of the best.
  • Agent_99Agent_99 enjoys a spirited ride as much as the next girl
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    RichardTheBruce wrote: »
    Alex Toth
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    Well, this is just delightful.
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Also of note--in the late 60s Dick Tracy featured a mastermind supervillain named Mr. Intro whose face was never seen and who plotted to destroy the world's economies. Gould had obviously been watching some Bond films! Tracy eventually vaporized the villain with a laser gun--asked where Mr. Intro was, Tracy said "You're breathing him."
  • SaintMarkSaintMark
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    Metropolis - Philip Kerr

    Last year Philip Kerr died a few days before the release of his previous Bernie Gunther book and the fans accepted that this book would be his last when the publisher informed us that before his death he had finished another book and that it would be released in 2019. This is the book.
    It is a bittersweet experience reading this book starring Bernie Gunther knowing that this will be the last in a brilliant series of books that show us the per-WWII world through the eyes of Berlin cop and his part in WWII and after. it paints a far more grey picture of the last great war and its consequences.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    DISCIPLESHIP AND SOME KARMIC PROBLEMS (1906) by Annie Besant.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    I think that an offshoot Dick Tracy thread might be a nice idea (assuming that it doesn't already exist). I'm intrigued and surprised by what I've heard about him! :)
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    DUTIES OF THE THEOSOPHIST (1916) by Annie Besant
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    EAST AND WEST-THE DESINIES OF NATIONS (1915) by Annie Besant
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  • Mack_BolanMack_Bolan
    edited April 2019 Posts: 377
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I think that an offshoot Dick Tracy thread might be a nice idea (assuming that it doesn't already exist). I'm intrigued and surprised by what I've heard about him! :)

    That sounds like a great idea, @Dragonpol.

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  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Mack_Bolan wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    I think that an offshoot Dick Tracy thread might be a nice idea (assuming that it doesn't already exist). I'm intrigued and surprised by what I've heard about him! :)

    That sounds like a great idea, @Dragonpol.

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    Maybe I or someone with more expertise in this area should create one? I've already sent away for a few books on Dick Tracy and some of the best of the strips as my interest has been piqued!
  • RevelatorRevelator
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    Perhaps we could start a "Crime Fiction and Comics" thread that would include Tracy and all other great detectives.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited April 2019 Posts: 17,804
    Revelator wrote: »
    Perhaps we could start a "Crime Fiction and Comics" thread that would include Tracy and all other great detectives.

    Yes, you'd be the best candidate to start such a thread. I say go for it and I shall follow it with interest! :)
  • LudovicoLudovico
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    Revelator wrote: »
    Perhaps we could start a "Crime Fiction and Comics" thread that would include Tracy and all other great detectives.

    There's already a crime fiction thread (started by me) where we can also talk about comics.
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