Dick Tracy

Archie Comics continues to expand and grow.

With the success of “Riverdale,” the television drama based on Archie, Jughead, Betty and Veronica, Archie Comics has stretched its wings in 2017. 

The comics company has introduced an array of Archie comics from the traditional comedy with the trademark Archie cartoon style to Archie written and drawn in a more realistic manner. 

It created a partnership with Marvel Comics reprinting past comics of Spider-Man, the Avengers, Thor in the popular Archie Digest format.

The company introduced its own superhero team.

And it will apparently continue to seek new readers and markets in 2018.

Archie Comics announced this week it will update Dick Tracy with a new comic book.

Dick Tracy was a long-time favorite of newspaper comics pages. The square-jawed detective in the yellow hat and trench coat faced a gallery of bad guys that is only rivaled by Batman’s cast of enemies.

All updated in a more modern writing and illustration style.

“The earliest investigations of one of pop culture’s most iconic detectives will be explored in the new ongoing series that promises to blend the classic Dick Tracy style that readers know and love with a modern and dark noir feel,” according to Archie Comics. 

The title’s creators are co-writers Alex Segura and Michael Moreci along with artist Thomas Pitilli and colorist Dee Cunniffe.

“Dick Tracy has always been a character that stands shoulder to shoulder amongst the best – Superman, The Shadow, Conan the Barbarian, Spider-Man, you name it,” Moreci said. “There’s been so many great Dick Tracy stories over the past 75 years, and that’s such a testament to his versatility, his amazing –unbeatable – rogues gallery, and what he represents.” 

“The first arc of the series is going back to square one – as we explore the very early days of Dick Tracy’s time in The City, soon after the second World War,” Segura said. “While everyone is familiar with the established, confident and heroic Tracy, we wanted to give readers a chance to see how all that came to be, and how his Rogues first reared their ugly mugs.”

The new Dick Tracy title is scheduled for release April 11.