Another good mail day: the Dick Tracy BLB collection crossed its halfway point – 15/27 – with addition of THE PHANTOM SHIP and bonus round of the softcover premium version of the strangest title in the series, FROM COLORADO TO NOVA SCOTIA. Should have the full series in the next couple of weeks, a life goal crossed out / finished.

But it’s the tiny book above, DICK TRACY AND THE INVISIBLE MAN (1939), published by Whitman (same as the BLBs) that’s got me so excited: a stapled softcover offering even smaller than a Big Little Book released as a premium for Quaker Puffed Rice / Wheat cereal, the sponsors of the radio show. The book / script itself is credited as being “as broadcast by Dick Tracy” (a la “from the private files of The Shadow, as told to Maxwell Grant”) and in two parts: the first is a “behind the scenes in radio with Dick Tracy” segment and the second, the full radio script to “Dick Tracy and The Invisible Man.” Very fun little artifact that combines four of my passions into one tiny package: Dick Tracy, Big Little Books, Universal Horror, and radio dramas.

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