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Rope Rescue

Illustration on Cover, Front

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Genres: crime, mystery

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy

Synopsis: In an abandoned steel mill, Dick Tracy saves Junior who is hanging from a rope.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Cover represents interior scene on story page 21, panel 8.

Dick Tracy Reports to You: Invisible Evidence

Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: crime, non-fiction

Character(s): Dick Tracy (as narrator)

First Line: If you were looking at the records of the police department of a certain city, you would find this story:

Synopsis: Dick Tracy tells us how clues that are invisible to the eye can be used to identify criminal perpetrators.

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Pages: 2

Notes: Black, white, and red on inside front cover and inside back cover.

Begins on the inside front cover (first page) and concludes on the inside back cover (second page). One black, white, and red illustration and one photograph on each page.

Jealousy and Murder

Story on Interior Page(s)

Subject Matter

Genres: crime, mystery

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Chief Brandon; Jean Penfield; Tess Trueheart; Pat Patton; Georgio Spaldoni; Mike (Spaldoni's gang); Mac (Spaldoni's gang); Milrey (Spaldoni's gang); Junior Tracy; Milligan (police officer); King (states-attorney); Spaldoni's mother

First Line: And you see, Chief Brandon, when I was thrown onto that haystack and Jimmy White and my roadster crashed into that oil tank... I saw how easy it would be to make everyone think I had perished too.

Synopsis: Lawyer-gangster Georgio Spaldoni manipulates Jean Penfield and Tess Trueheart into a violent feud over Tracy. He murders Jean and arranges matters so that it looks like Tess had done the killing. When his scheme begins to unravel, Spaldoni and his gang hide out at an old, abandoned steel mill and prepare for a final showdown with Dick Tracy.

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Reprint Notes: From Dick Tracy daily newspaper strip (Chicago Tribune) 3/27/1934 to 5/09/1934.

Miscellaneous

Pages: 24

Notes: Continues from Dick Tracy Monthly #4.

What appears to be a rare spelling error occurs on page 13, panel 3:
TRACY: "I've a hunch that somewhere in those rooms is a real clew [sic] to the killer."

...But, per Merlin Haas (2024-09-23), "CLEW" was the original spelling of the word "CLUE". Now archaic, its use declined after World War I but was still occasionally seen into the 1930s (when this story was originally created) and was probably obsolete by the late 1940s - when this story was reprinted for comic books.

The Clue was in the Cards

Text Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: crime, mystery

Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tom Davis (murder victim); fingerprint technician; other crime scene technicians; Dykes (Davis's valet); Mr. Kentfield

First Line: "This is the most hopeless case I've ever seen," Pat complained as he and Dick watched the photographers and fingerprint men finishing up their chores.

Synopsis: Tracy solves the poisoning murder of wealthy Tom Davis, a case in which there are no apparent clues.

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Pages: 2

Narcotics Trafficking

Story on Interior Page(s)

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Genres: crime, mystery

Feature(s): The Iron Man

Character(s): Detective Jim O'Brien; Police Commissioner Black; Tommy (drug addict); Monte (drug kingpin); nameless drug pusher; two cops

First Line: Because of his preference of always operating alone, tough, fearless Jim O'Brien, plain clothes detective, one-man war against crime, has earned the name of The "Iron Man" and the undying respect and admiration of every man on the force...

Synopsis: Jim O'Brien is tasked with shutting down "an increasing new wave in the traffic of narcotics". He goes undercover, posing as an addict.

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Pages: 6

Notes: Copyright 1948 by Oscar Lebeck.

In what is clearly a pre-code story, Police Commissioner Black offers the following grim information: "Many new addicts have been picked up. And the terrible fact is that in their number we are finding many teen age users of marijuana, cocaine, and other drugs".

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Text Article on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Feature(s): Dick Tracy Reports to You

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Pages: 1

Notes: On inside back cover.

Subscribe Now to Dick Tracy Monthly

Promotional Material (from Publisher) on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: crime, mystery

Feature(s): Dell Comics; Dick Tracy

Character(s): Dick Tracy

First Line: Every Month---Follow the thrilling adventures of your favorite detective in his daring crusade against crime!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Dell Comics house ad offering mail subscriptions to Dick Tracy Monthly at $1.00 for one year (12 issues), or $1.75 for two years (24 issues). Color ad on back cover.