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Issue Details

Issue #96
Published 1946
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing ?
Notes Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 96." No code number. Copyright 1940, 1941 by the Chicago Tribune.

Cover Details

Characters Dick Tracy; Yogee Yamma; Professor
Genre detective

8 page Dick Tracy story "Ye Gods! What hideous work is this?"

Characters Dick Tracy; Yogee Yamma; Professor; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon
Synopsis Tracy finds a chemist being held as a slave by Yogee Yamma in an abandoned section of the subway. After Tracy prevents Yogee from killing the man, Yogee escapes and traps the other two in the tunnel, which fills with water. A street cave-in lets Tracy and the chemist escape.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Notes Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white.
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

8 page Dick Tracy story "Help! Help me, s'body---Help---"

Characters Dick Tracy; Yogee Yamma; Professor; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Pearl Erad [Black Pearl]
Synopsis In a drunken stupor after getting a $500,000 payoff and thinking he has gotten rid of Tracy and the chemist, Yogee Yamma passes out in a hotel room. He forgets that the nerve gas he carries has to be kept cool with dry ice and the device explodes, filling the room with flames and killing him. Later Tracy investigates a bomb and he and Pat are captured by Pearl Erad, the Black Pearl.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

8 page Dick Tracy story "He? It's no man-it's a woman!"

Characters Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Professor; Pearl Erad [Black Pearl]; Horace
Synopsis Black Pearl takes Tracy and Patton to a secret proving grounds in the mountains to have them test her combination tank-plane-submarine. During underwater tests, Tracy finds a way to use an aqueduct to send a message for help.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

8 page Dick Tracy story "Yes, it was Morse Code and it said 'Tracy and Patton..."

Characters Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Pearl Erad [Black Pearl]; Horace; Jim Trailer; Junior; Tess; Buck; Deafy Sweetfellow
Synopsis Tracy and Patton have to test the tank against flame-throwers. The police interrupt the test but have to deal with the flame-thrower themselves. Pearl and Horace escape to an underground hangar with a foreign dignitary, but are stopped when the diplomat proves to be a G-Man in disguise. Later Junior goes into business with a man named Buck, parking bicycles on his vacant lot.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

8 page Dick Tracy story "Sold! I've always wanted to visit the southern mountains..."

Characters Dick Tracy; Tess; Junior; Chief Brandon; Buck; Deafy Sweetfellow
Synopsis Junior sets up a bike-parking business with a man named Buck. On his first day of business, a truck intentionally backs over the bike racks and Junior is left to find a way to repair or replace the damaged bikes. Deafy Sweetfellow contacts Junior with an offer to supply him with replacement bikes at very low prices. Junior starts selling the bikes, but one of the boys' fathers accuses him of selling stolen bikes.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

8 page Dick Tracy story "Yeah? What is it, son?"

Characters Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess; Junior; Deafy Sweetfellow; Buck
Synopsis Junior tracks the bicycle thieves to their mobile workshop, but the crooks back the truck suddenly, severely injuring him. Dick Tracy returns from a vacation two days later and finds Junior in the hospital. The thieves are stopped by a motorcycle policeman and shoot the cop and abandon the truck. Deafy and Buck go to Buck's mother's hamburger stand to hide out.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940

3 page Dick Tracy story "What was in the note you stuck into that red hot toaster?"

Characters Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Deafy Sweetfellow; Buck
Synopsis Tracy and Patton capture Deafy's gang at his mother's hamburger stand, but Deafy escapes. Deafy is sprayed by a skunk and Tracy captures him when he tries to hide in a load of Christmas trees.
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Notes Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.
Reprinted from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940