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Issue: Four Color #34
Publication Date: January 1944
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Issues: #34 of 1333 Issues (1484 Printings)
Title: Dick Tracy
Variant: unnamed
Rating:
Publisher: FlagDell
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 1943
Volume: none
Pages: 60
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (8 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 34." No code number. Copyright 1939 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.. Copyright 1940 by the Chicago Tribune.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age U.S.; standard Silver Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Original Artwork
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Cover, Front
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Tess Truehart; John Lavir
First Line: Do you mean to say you get a thousand dollars...
Synopsis: Tess wants to go into the dog kennel business with John Lavir.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover; black, red, and white.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; John Lavir; Dirks; Chief Brandon; Nat, the Fur King
First Line: Bow - wow -- wow -- woww -!
Synopsis: John Lavir blackmails Tess into helping him with his stolen dog racket. She and Lavir get into a scuffle and the police find Lavir with his throat cut and charge Tess. Tracy finds evidence that clears Tess. A car sideswipes Tracy's police car and after a chase the police find that it was hauling stolen furs.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Story is highly edited.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Fred Marken; Nat, the Fur King; Stooge Viller; Munny
First Line: I'm going to hop into my own car and go out to Gibbons...
Synopsis: Tracy and Pat try to prevent the hijacking of a truckload of furs, but get caught in a fiery crash. Tracy gets Fred Marken to help set up a trap for the fur thieves. Later Stooge Viller is released from prison and gets a $1,000 stake from his old gang to start operations again.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Jim Epod; Iggie
First Line: Thirty-five, forty, forty-five, fifty, fifty-five grand!
Synopsis: Stooge Viller gets $55,000 from a safe-deposit box and goes into business with "The Professor" manufacturing small items that would be useful for criminals.
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From Content Item: FlagSuper Comics #60 published May 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Code number "S.C. #60" for Super Comics #60 is at bottom of first page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Tess Truehart; Binnie Viller
First Line: I see. Just a moment, I'll switch you to Mr. Tracy.
Synopsis: Tracy finds The Professor's workshop, but is captured by Stooge Viller. Viller moves the shop, sets the old place on fire, and leaves Tracy hanging by a rope in an abandoned well in the country. Viller has his gang kidnap his daughter, who is living with her grandmother, and bring her to see him. Tracy escapes from the well, where he is found by Tess Truehart and a group of Girl Scouts on an outing. Viller decides to leave town and take his daughter with him.
Reprinting
From Content Item: FlagSuper Comics #61 published June 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]likely partial
From Content Item: FlagSuper Comics #62 published July 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]likely partial
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 11
Disclose Notes: Code number "SC 61" for Super Comics #61 is at the bottom of the first page. Apparently a combined and condensed version of the episodes in Super Comics #61 and #62.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; Binnie Viller; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Toby Townley
First Line: Where is he? Ah, there he is - But he's only using...
Synopsis: After being accidentally shot by his daughter, Stooge Viller tries to escape by swimming across a river, but drowns. Tracy finds a baby that was left in a wardrobe case in a department store and tries to find his parents.
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From Content Item: FlagSuper Comics #63 published August 1943
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Code number "63-458" for Super Comics #63 is at the bottom of the first page.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Kress Kroywen; Toby Townley
First Line: I am the baby's mother. I read where the wax record...
Synopsis: The baby's grandfather snatches the baby from the police station and takes it to his laboratory where he injects it with tropic sleep germs.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: The character name Kroywen, also the name of the serum, is New York spelled backwards.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Kress Krowyen; Toby Townley; Junior
First Line: He's been inoculated with tropic sleep germs...
Synopsis: Tracy tracks the baby's grandfather to his lab and in a fight, the old man hits his head and dies and the only beaker of tropic serum is spilled. Tracy takes the baby to the hospital only to find that there is no cure for tropic sleep. Tracy and Patton ransack the old man's study and find the formula for the secret serum to cure the disease.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940
Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color.

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