Dick Tracy comic books issue 42
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Issue #42
Published Aug 1951 by Dell/Harvey.This item is not in stock at MyComicShop. If you use the "Add to want list" tab to add this issue to your want list, we will email you when it becomes available.
Cover art by Joe Simon. "Murder by Mail," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy captures Nilon and Rod and jails them while evidence against them is processed; Tracy handcuffs Nilon and Rod together and takes them to the spot where their aunt's mail-order groom is buried; Not wanting to go the electric chair, Rod drags Nilon into the path of an oncoming milk truck, which hits them and kills them both. "Pick-Pocket Racket," script and art by Chester Gould; Tracy captures two pickpockets that are using a child to create a diversion while they work the streets. Untitled story, script and art by Chester Gould; Roach and Shoulders devise a plan to keep their pickpockets on the street; Meanwhile, Tracy tracks Themesong to her home and finds that she has a sick mother. Dick Tracy Comics Monthly house ad. One-page Beware of These Rackets story; Brief descriptions of uniform scams, smuggled goods, contract movers, puncture fluid, and skin cream. Crimestoppers Handbook; Brief decriptions of crime-solving techniques. Untitled one-page story, script and art by Art Helfant; Hector the Director goes hunting in New Jersey. Untitled one-page story; Sparkle Plenty goes shopping. "The Chinatown Murder" text story. Sad Sack house ad. "Detective's Holiday"; Dick and Pat solve a murder. Ad: "Now! Get Genuine Walt Disney Masks on Wheaties Boxes!" 36 pages, full color. Cover price $0.10.
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Issue #42
Published Jul 1988 by Blackthorne.$4.80
$4.20
$3.60
A Plot to Kill Tracy! Story, art and cover by Chester Gould. Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from June-July 1954. Dewdrop and Open-Mind Monty carry out their plan to shoot Dick Tracy, but a well-placed dummy and an open phone line prove their undoing. Then its Tracys turn to get the goods on Monty. 32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00.
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