Dick Tracy's 1938 Member Pin
(metal)
value
good fine mint
$6 $12 $22
Dick Tracy's 1939 Brass Member Badge
(metal)
value
good fine mint
$10 $18 $25
The prices show here were take from: Tomart's Price Guide to Radio Premium and Cereal Box Collectibles
by Tom Tumbusch
Wallace-Homestead Book Company
Radnor, Pennsylvania
1991
$22.95
ISBN: 0-87069-635-1
The above items are in my personal collection. I would be willing to sell them, although it is likely that prices have changed since 1991.
I am also interested in buying your old-time radio premiums. If you have any decoders, rings, books, or other premiums,
Dick Tracy began on radio in 1935 on Mutual. It moved to NBC in 1937 until the end of the 1939 season. The show was later heard on the NBC Blue network from 1943 until 1948. During the 1930's, writers tried to make him an aviator, to fit the times. And he was a war hero during the war years. It was only in later years that he was portrayed as a top metro police detective.
Dick Tracy has the distrinction of requiring a kid to eat the most boxes of cereal to get the top premium - his Inspector General badge. Even though badges of other ranks were awarded along the way, kids had to eat 39 boxes of Quaker Puffed Wheat or Rice to get the top badge.
