Subject Matter
Genres:
crime, mystery
Character(s):
Dick Tracy; Tess Trueheart; Pat Patton; Lizz Grove (police officer); The Blank; Tony Vincente; Gary Hilliker (underworld doctor, death); Breathless Mahoney; Fangs Foreman (gangster); Foreman's thugs; Denbrough (shady cop); Inky (Lips Manlis gang member, death); Medical Examiner; Stooge Viller (death)
First Line:
Tony Vincente is a simple guy. He goes to work, comics home, wakes up and does it again.
Synopsis:
Underworld figures are being brutally hacked to death by a mysterious - and featureless - killer known as The Blank. Tracy investigates Fangs Foreman, who has "snagged [mob-boss-in-hiding, Lips Manlis'] turf, his club, and most of his rackets". While questioning Foreman at the Club Ritz, Tracy is taken with singer Breathless Mahoney. Lizz follows a tip on The Blank's whereabouts. Denbrough secretly passes that tip on to Tess. Tracy and Patton arrive to find a deep face-scar on Lizz, a panicked Tess... and gangster Stooge Viller murdered by The Blank.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
22
Notes:
In Chester Gould's original newspaper strip, as reprinted in Four Color (Dell, 1942 Series) #34 (January 1944), Stooge Viller died of drowning. https://www.comics.org/issue/135057/#879368 In this version, he never even gets near the water and the only thing "wet" about him is his spilled blood.
GOOD BIT: Pat Patton suggests to Tracy that Lips Manlis gang member Inky was killed by Fangs Foreman's thugs for his loyalty to Manlis:
TRACY: "LOYAL? Pat, guys like Inky couldn't spell "loyal" with a dictionary in their hands."
PATTON: "Dick, guys like Inky couldn't spell "THE" with a dictionary in their hands."
Detail
Variant:
Cover B - Francesco Francavilla
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