THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — dick tracy

I just love this Mullard advertisement from 1946, such prescience to forewarn the advent of a wrist mounted 'electronic teleprinter news receiver'...... or was it just plagiarism? Could it be that envious eyes scanned events across 'the pond' and hence a 'copy and paste' idea was hatched?    Well, in 1946, someone else got a radio wrist watch, yes, it was Dick Tracy.  Who, I hear you ask , well  Dick Tracy is an American comic strip featuring created by Chester Gould that made its debut  n the Detroit Mirror in October 1931.  It was to be 15 years later,...