Credits
Colorist(s):
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Subject Matter
Genres:
adventure, crime, drama, humorous, mystery
Character(s):
Dick Tracy; Diet Smith; B. O. Plenty; Chief Brandon; Pat Patton; Irma; Brilliant
Synopsis:
While Diet Smith tries to clear himself of murder charges, employees at his Detroit plant work on a scheme to steal one of Smith's atomic inventions. Tracy receives his first wrist radio. Irma. shoots Diet Smith while he is in his bathtub and then takes her own life. Smith has surgery and survives. He narrowly escapes death a second time when Irma's son, Brilliant, tries to shoot him in the hospital.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
From Dick Tracy newspaper strip (Chicago Tribune) 1946-03-17 to 1946-05-17 (except 1946-04-18 through 1946-04-25).
Miscellaneous
Pages:
21.5
Notes:
Original title of this story is "The Case of the Atomic Killers."
The following changes were made to this reprint due to Comics Code Authority restrictions:
Page 1, panels 8, 9: Wire opaqued on black line but color still shows where wires were
Page 2, panels 2, 3, 4, 6: Wires removed to take away inference that victim was electrocuted
Page 18, panel 5: Bullets are opaqued, but because of color plate, their path is still visible. Diet
Smith's is visible as a white space, even the outline was deleted from the black plate.
Page 18, panel 7: The part of the panel showing Irma shooting herself in the head has been replaced
with a narrow panel that has "BANG" running vertically.
Page 18, panel 10: "The water's bloody!" has been removed from the first word balloon. Second balloon
changed from "That's blood on my hands!" to "He's been shot!"
Page 19, panel 2: Irma's body outline has been removed, but the color still prints.
Page 19, bottom caption: Changed from :Read the July issue of Dick Tracy" to "Turn the page quickly."
Page 20, panel 1: "Dick Tracy" logo changed to a descriptive caption.
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