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Issue: Four Color #215
Publication Date: February 1949
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Issues: #215 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Sparkle Plenty
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: A Dell ComicView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co.
On Sale Date: 12/28/1948
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "SPARKLE PLENTY, No. 215". Code number is S.P.O.S. #215-492. Copyright 1947, 1948 by The Chicago Tribune. On-sale date is publication date in Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1949 Pamphlets, page 124. The only new material listed in the registration is the cover.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Sparkle Plenty

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? [as by Chester Gould] (signed)
Inker(s): ? [as by Chester Gould] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Sparkle Plenty
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Sparkle Plenty

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; B. O. Plenty; Gravel Gertie; Sparkle Plenty (introduction); Sam Ketchum; Tess Tracy; Junior Tracy; Diet Smith; Mrs. Volts (villain); Brier
Synopsis: After the birth of Sparkle Plenty to Gravel Gertie, B.O. Plenty's family gets $3,000 for letting "Glance" magazine do a feature on Sparkle. B.O. buries the money under a post, it gets lost, then is found by Dick Tracy. The story skips ahead six months to Mrs. Volts and her chauffeur dumping stolen electrical supplies on B.O.'s land. They are caught by B.O. but are let go when they pay him $20. After hiding in the North Woods, Mrs. Volts returns to the Plenty's house looking for her dog, which has become Sparkle's pet.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) daily and Sunday newspaper strips from 1947 and March-May 1948.
Miscellaneous
Pages: 34
Disclose Notes: Story begins on the inside front cover in black and white and concludes on the inside back cover in black and white. Edited Dick Tracy daily and Sunday newspaper strips from 1947 and March-May, 1948. Pages are four tiers deep. Panels have been cut or extended to fit the space available.
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Sparkle's Cut-outs

Activity  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Sparkle Plenty
Synopsis: Paper doll cut-outs of Sparkle Plenty with clothes and accessories.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover.

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