blastoff
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I remember reading Dick Tracy in the Sunday comics that came with the newspaper.
Dick had a radio strapped to his wrist that looked like a watch. He'd talk in to it or receive messages, from headquarters I guess. Imagine that, a tiny wireless communications device.
Ah, Chester Gould couldn't draw a scratch, but he had the neatest gadgets.
BTW, it wasn't a radio, it was a TV watch. We are sort of there, almost, with things like Skype and so on that can do two way telephony. but watch size is still not quite there.
And the space station was pretty cool too. Well, it was clunky looking, but everything Gould drew was clunky looking.
but do you remember the size of the comics? How much bigger everything was? And the artists didn't have resort to cheats because some newspapers crop off the top line on the sunday.
OTOH, most of what was out there was lame. Prince Valiant?! the amount of real estate that took up on sunday was criminal.
No way, Jose. It was definitely identified by Gould as a 2-way wrist radio.