Rampant Violence



'The crooks never escaped by pleading the Fifth Amendment, but wound up riddled with bullets, or met a more gruesome end. It is not surprising that Gould has his critics in this day of parental concern about the extensive portrayal of violence in the entertainment media. Gould remains unconvinced: "If I were a kid, the thing I would fear most would be ending up with a bullet whilrling through my head. We need more graphic portrayals of where the road of crime leads."'

-Part of a description of Chester Gould's Dick Tracy, from Jerry Robinson's The Comics: An Illustrated History of Comic Strip Art