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Issue: Dick Tracy #63
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Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagHarvey
Brand: Harvey Comics HView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Harvey Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 03/13/1953
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency:
Content Items: 20 (6 stories, 1 cover)
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Disclose Notes: On sale date based on house ad in Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #62.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Golden Age, then Silver Age US
Paper Stock: newsprint
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Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
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Title Page
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Subject Matter
adventure, crime, mystery
Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Mousey Rattner; Papa Rattner
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Cover art is also used as the splash panel for the first story in this issue.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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childrens, sports
Buy a Daisy... join a junior air rifle club!
Ad promoting gun safety and offering a 40-page booklet describing how to organize an air rifle club as well as giving the history of Daisy air rifles.
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Inside front cover.
Dick Tracy and the Case of the White Rat Robberies

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, crime, drama, humorous, mystery
Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Mousey Rattner; Papa Rattner;
Tracy and Sam identify the hit-and-run vehicle. Meanwhile, Mousey has an argument with Papa and goes out alone to steal a mink coat. In anger, Papa accidentally releases Mousey's rats. He manages to catch most of them and put them in a pillowcase. After he enters a cab, the rats gnaw their way out and cause the cab drive to lose control and run off the pier. Mousey is almost caught and returns to her apartment. Tracy and Sam locate Mousey's apartment, and she panics. She hides a in truck full of dogs. She hijacks the truck and flees. She later ditches the truck and flees into the woods.
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From Dick Tracy Newspaper strip (Chicago Tribune) 19xx-xx-xx to 19xx-xx-xx.
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Splash page art for this story is also used for the cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, childrens, sports
Family Puzzle Contest
$100,000.00 in cash prizes
Ad with entry form for puzzle contests.
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This ad appears between pages 1 and 2 of the first story.
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Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
childrens, drama, humorous
Pud
He's got to shovel the driveway before he can go sleddin'
Pud uses Dubble Bubble gum to trick his friends into helping him shovel the driveway.
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childrens, science fiction
Space Squadron
Calling all space rangers!
Ad for a plastic toy ray gun plus spaceships and spacemen.
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Harvey 1953 Calendar

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Subject Matter
adventure, anthropomorphic, childrens, crime, drama, fantasy, humorous, sports
Dick Tracy; Little Audrey; Joe Palooka; Little Audrey; Mazie; Little Max; Casper; Blondie; Dagwood
Calendar for 1953 with different Harvey characters featured on each month.
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childrens, sports
Wow! Nothing beats this bike for speed - or looks!
Ad for Schwinn Bicycles, featuring the Traveler.
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Subject Matter
adventure, anthropomorphic, childrens, crime, drama, fantasy, humorous, military, sports
Blondie; Dagwood; Little Audrey; Dick Tracy; Mazie; Little Max; Sad Sack; Joe Palooka
New issues Harvey Comics now on sale... read them all!
Generic ad for some of the comics regularly published by Harvey.
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[Dick Tracy and the Case of the White Rat Robberies] Part 2

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
adventure, crime, drama, humorous, mystery
Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Mousey Rattner; B. O. Plenty; Gravel Gertie; Sparkle Plenty; Jimmy McKitchen
While searching for Mousey, Tracy and Sam find B. O. Plenty hiding in a cave in the woods. His family is happy to be re-united with him. Mousey takes refuge in a pet store and is spotted by Jimmy McKitchen, the boy she hit a few days earlier. Jimmy identifies Mousey, and Tracy and Sam take her to jail.
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From Dick Tracy newspaper strip (Chicago Tribune) 19xx-xx-xx to 19x-xx-xx.
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Memory of Murder

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime, mystery
Paul Crane; Captain Byrnes
Captain Byrnes solves a murder.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
humorous, military
Sad Sack
By popular demand! Back in the army again!
Generic ad for Sad Sack Comics, on sale monthly.
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Subject Matter
crime, mystery
Girl Friday!
Myra Martin; Glenn Wilson; Frank Norton; Robert Norton
Old Norton said he wanted to change his will...
Myra solves the murder of one of Glenn's clients.
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Homicide Ace

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime, mystery
Patrolman Dan Carter; Patrolman Keith Summers; Philip Mason
Two patrolmen solve a homicide.
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime, mystery
Dick Tracy
Calling all Crime-Stoppers mail this order today
Subscription ad for Dick Tracy Comics Monthly.
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
crime, mystery
Boris Gehrhart; Inspector Kelly; Edwina Morrow
Nice clean shot, eh Boris?
Boris helps Inspector Kelly solve a murder.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
sports
Consumer's Mart
Buy direct from importer...
Ad for high-powered binoculars.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
historical
Free! On this amazing offer 235 Stamps...
Ad for free stamps and a stamp collectors' outfit.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
sports
Charles Atlas
Check the kind of body you want!
Ad for a mail-order body-building course.
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Inside back cover.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Subject Matter
aviation, childrens
Get Cracker Jack's amazing jet propelled railroad engine
Ad for a toy available for 25 cents and a Cracker Jack box label.
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Back cover.

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