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Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Tess Truehart; John Lavir

First Line: Do you mean to say you get a thousand dollars...

Synopsis: Tess wants to go into the dog kennel business with John Lavir.

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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938

Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; John Lavir; Dirks; Chief Brandon; Nat, the Fur King

First Line: Bow - Wow -- Wow -- Woww -!

Synopsis: John Lavir blackmails Tess into helping him with his stolen dog racket. She and Lavir get into a scuffle and the police find Lavir with his throat cut and charge Tess. Tracy finds evidence that clears Tess. A car sideswipes Tracy's police car and after a chase the police find that it was hauling stolen furs.

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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Story is highly edited.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Chester Gould

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Fred Marken; Nat, the Fur King; Stooge Viller; Munny

First Line: I'm going to hop into my own car and go out to Gibbons...

Synopsis: Tracy and Pat try to prevent the hijacking of a truckload of furs, but get caught in a fiery crash. Tracy gets Fred Marken to help set up a trap for the fur thieves. Later Stooge Viller is released from prison and gets a $1,000 stake from his old gang to start operations again.

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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Chester Gould

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Jim Epod; Iggie

First Line: Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five grand!

Synopsis: Stooge Viller gets $55,000 from a safe-deposit box and goes into business with "The Professor" manufacturing small items that would be useful for criminals.

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Super Comics #60 published May 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Code number "S.C. #60" for Super Comics #60 is at bottom of first page.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): Chester Gould

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Tess Truehart; Binnie Viller

First Line: I see. Just a moment, I'll switch you to Mr. Tracy.

Synopsis: Tracy finds The Professor's workshop, but is captured by Stooge Viller. Viller moves the shop, sets the old place on fire, and leaves Tracy hanging by a rope in an abandoned well in the country. Viller has his gang kidnap his daughter, who is living with her grandmother, and bring her to see him. Tracy escapes from the well, where he is found by Tess Truehart and a group of Girl Scouts on an outing. Viller decides to leave town and take his daughter with him.

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Super Comics #61 published June 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]likely partial

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Super Comics #62 published July 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]likely partial

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 11

Notes: Code number "SC 61" for Super Comics #61 is at the bottom of the first page. Apparently a combined and condensed version of the episodes in Super Comics #61 and #62.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; Binnie Viller; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Toby Townley

First Line: Where is he? Ah, there he is - But he's only using...

Synopsis: After being accidentally shot by his daughter, Stooge Viller tries to escape by swimming across a river, but drowns. Tracy finds a baby that was left in a wardrobe case in a department store and tries to find his parents.

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Super Comics #63 published August 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: Code number "63-458" for Super Comics #63 is at the bottom of the first page.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Kress Kroywen; Toby Townley

First Line: I am the baby's mother. I read where the wax record...

Synopsis: The baby's grandfather snatches the baby from the police station and takes it to his laboratory where he injects it with tropic sleep germs.

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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 8

Notes: The character name Kroywen, also the name of the serum, is New York spelled backwards.

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Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Writer(s): Chester Gould

Penciller(s): Chester Gould

Inker(s): Chester Gould

Colorist(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: mystery

Feature(s): Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Kress Krowyen; Toby Townley; Junior

First Line: He's been inoculated with tropic sleep germs...

Synopsis: Tracy tracks the baby's grandfather to his lab and in a fight, the old man hits his head and dies and the only beaker of tropic serum is spilled. Tracy takes the baby to the hospital only to find that there is no cure for tropic sleep. Tracy and Patton ransack the old man's study and find the formula for the secret serum to cure the disease.

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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.