1937 Johnson Dick Tracy Checklist

1937 Johnson Dick Tracy trading cards were issued with “Dick Tracy Caramels” at the height of the characters popularity. Dick Tracy had been released as a newspaper comic since 1931 but in 1936 expanded to comic books and in 1937 — the year of this set’s release — had his own comic book title. 1937 also marked the release of the first Dick Tracy film serials starring Ralph Byrd as the title character.

The set displays a comic drawing and caption on the front and an action packed story on the reverse.

The checklist contains 144 cards but can be a bit confusing despite all the cards bein sequentially numbered to 144. The first series of cards are labeled as “a series of 96” but within that series is a discrepancy in design where the caption on the card front and the title on the card back are either different (1-48) or the same (49-96). Cards #97-120 are labeled as a “series of 120) with matching card captions/card titles. The final series, cards #121-144, are labeled as “a series of 144”. This may indicate that the set was released over four series of varying distributions.

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