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First of all Dick Tracy, who is no longer in the comics ( for a good number of years) was created by Chester Gould, the cartoonist. He has nothing whatsoever to do with Walt Disney. There was a TV cartoon Dick Tracy that had foreign corresponding characters Hemlock Holmes ( an English Bulldog!) and Joe Jitsu- a Martial-arts bent Tokyo detective. This was not a Disney cartoon. Chester Gould died a long time ago and the comic strip is no longer produced. It was understood Dick Tracy was an NYPD man- but the comic strip was simultaneously run ( back in the sixties) in both the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Times with identical story content. Sorry, Dick Tracy was never at any time or place, a Disney character.