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 Archie Comics announced an ongoing Dick Tracy title
only to cancel it due to a “preexisting licensing deal” preventing the comic
book from happening. The Tribune Content Agency, license-holders of Chester
Gould’s Dick Tracy, confirmed the news on Tuesday via Twitter. In a series of
three tweets, the Tribune Content Agency wrote, “Due to an unfortunate error on
our part, Tribune is sad to announce that there will not be a DICK TRACY comic
book series from Archie Comics. While we had high hopes for the book and Archie
Comics negotiated the deal in good faith and is not at fault, we discovered a
preexisting licensing deal that precludes us from continuing with this project.
We apologize to Archie Comics, the very talented creators and their many fans.”
The series had a creative team of co-writers Alex Segura and Michael Moreci and
artist Thomas Pitilli. The series would have focused on Dick Tracy’s early days
as a detective. We do not know what the preexisting deal was but in 2010 the
Powers creative team of Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming were
offered a Dick Tracy comic that was stopped because Warren Beatty, star of the
1990 Dick Tracy film, still had some licensing rights to the character. |
