Subject Matter
Genres:
crime, mystery
Character(s):
Dick Tracy; Tess Trueheart; Pat Patton; Itchy Oliver; Itchy's construction site goons; Pruneface; Police Chief Brandon; Mumbles (death); WWII Nazi soldiers (in flashback only); various police; Pochoda; Harper; Flattop Jones; Lips Manlis (gangster and racket boss); Tony Manlis (Lips' young son); Sophia Manlis (Lips' young daughter); Shoulders
First Line:
War ends.
Synopsis:
In 1947, WWII vet Pat Patton searches for his brother who has gone missing from Itchy and Pruneface's construction site. Tracy begins to question Mumbles about the diner murders when the mumbling informer is abruptly taken by Chief Brandon and put into "protective custody", from which he soon disappears. Tracy has a WWII flashback nightmare of a fierce battle, with himself and Pat Patton on the Allied side, and (possibly) Pruneface with the Germans. Flattop executes the kidnapped Mumbles. Fears escalate over a coming gang war between the mobs of Lips Manlis and “Big Boy” Caprice.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
22
Notes:
Repeatedly listening to taped telephone conversations of Mumbles, Tess Trueheart breaks down the unusual speech patterns of the unintelligible informer, describing his cadence as being similar to a code.
"See, Mumbles tends to speed through certain syllables, then slow down on hard consonants, and he might skip words altogether. It's complicated, but there's a pattern."
Detail
Variant:
Cover B - Brent Schoonover
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