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Issue: Dick Tracy #4
Publication Date: August 2024
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Issues: #4 of 7 Issues (24 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Cover A - Geraldo Borges
Rating: Teen+
Publisher: FlagMad Cave Studios
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Mad Cave Studios, LLC
On Sale Date: 08/14/2024
Volume:
Pages: 32
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 60194704612200411
Price: $4.99 USD
Indicia Frequency: Teen+
Content Items: 5 (1 story, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: bond
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: ongoing series
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Shadow of Flattop II

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Flattop Jones (in silhouette only)
Synopsis: Making his way down a rain-soaked noirish alley, Tracy casts the shadow of Flattop. Similar poses are struck. Tracy with his revolver and the reflected-in-the-wet-pavement silhouette of Flattop with his tommy gun.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Our unofficial title, "Shadow of Flattop II" references the "A" cover of the previous issue (also by Borges and Englert, and unofficially titled "Shadow of Flattop") where Tracy, Pat Patton, and Tess Trueheart face the shadow of a tommy gun wielding Flattop. https://www.comics.org/issue/2647321/#4039007
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Dick Tracy

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Credits
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Dick Tracy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Credits and indicia for the issue. Color on inside front cover.

The left vertical third of the page is a repurposed image of Dick Tracy in gold and gray tones which made up the entire page seven of issue #1.
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CITY AT WAR!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Tess Trueheart (also as Headly); Pat Patton; “Big Boy” Caprice (gangster boss); Itchy Oliver; Mumbles (bullet-ridden corpse - in flashback cameo only); Cueball (Lips Manlis gang); Rhodent (Lips Manlis gang); Carmine (Lips Manlis gang); Pruneface; Elsa Crystal; Emil Trueheart (in flashback cameo only); Gruesome (“Big Boy” Caprice gang); Crutch (“Big Boy” Caprice gang); Slugs Magnum (“Big Boy” Caprice gang); Flattop Jones
First Line: Life is easy. People don't realize it but it's true.
Synopsis: As the 1947 gang war between the forces of Lips Manlis and “Big Boy” Caprice heats up with killings suffered on both sides, matters are further complicated by the apparent disappearance of Manlis. “Big Boy” orders Itchy to find his missing mobster rival. Dick Tracy and Pat Patton (now deputized) raid the Manlis gang and all are nearly killed by a bomb planted by Pruneface. As the bomb explodes, Tracy has another momentary WWII flashback. Tess Trueheart goes undercover and learns why her father was killed. Tracy and Patton track Pruneface smack into an encounter with “Big Boy” and Flattop.
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: A newspaper article hammered-out by Tess Trueheart supplies our story title "CITY AT WAR!", with all letters capitalized at it would appear as a front-page headline.

While on the trail of Pruneface, Pat Patton's unofficial "deputized" status serves Tracy well as seen in his info-seeking exchange with Itchy:

ITCHY: "You wanna know where Pruneface is? Gotta do better than a banana-lookin' cop and his bum friend."
("Banana-lookin' cop" is Itchy's reference to Tracy's trademark yellow coat and hat.)

TRACY: "You're right, Itchy. I AM a cop. -- But my friend isn't."

At which Patton slams Itchy with a gut punch, takes him by the scruff of the neck, and hangs him out a high window - a la Batman.
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Dick Tracy #5

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy
First Line: Available September 2024
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: The cover of Dick Tracy (Mad Cave Studios, 2024 Series) #5 (September 2024) is reproduced.
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Meet The Boss

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, mystery
Character(s): “Big Boy” Caprice (gangster boss)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. A reproduction of the story-ending splash panel of page 22 of issue #1. No dialogue balloons. No captions. Includes publisher's name and logo, barcode, price, age guidelines, cover artist credits, and website address.

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