[1][2][3][4] It ceased publication in August 1932 without warning, only giving a week of severance pay to its employees.
But it had lost two million dollars in sixteen months despite having made huge gains in both circulation and advertising revenue during the spring of 1932.
It was owned by publishers Robert R. McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, also owners of the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News.
Max Annenberg was the Detroit Mirror's local publisher and his son Ivan was circulation manager.
Chester Gould's long-running comic strip Dick Tracy made its first-ever appearance in the Detroit Mirror on Sunday October 4, 1931.