This is an early work about Dick Tracy, the world’s most famous, biggest detective. Famous for fighting the ugliest foes in the crime world, the Dick Tracy cartoon strip may actually be even more famous for popularizing the idea of handheld communication — the cell phone!

Tracy’s two-way wrist radio, which was later upgraded to a two-way wrist TV, was one of the precursors to cell phones. What seemed impossible and unworldly to exist then, now seems unworldly to not exist today!

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