Credits
Writer(s):
?; Chester Gould
Penciller(s):
Chester Gould
Inker(s):
Chester Gould
Colorist(s):
?
Letterer(s):
typeset; Chester Gould
Subject Matter
Genres:
adventure, crime, drama, humorous, mystery
Feature(s):
Dick Tracy
Character(s):
Dick Tracy; Sam Ketcham; Empty Williams; Junior Tracy; Tess Tracy
Synopsis:
Empty Williams tries to sell a shipment of hi-jacked diapers to a car wash chain owner. When the owner discovers that he is not buying polishing cloths, he refuses to pay and is killed. The hi-jacked driver gies Tracy a description of Williams, Tracy tracks Williams to a sleazy cafe. Williams spot them and manages to escape. He hides in an old tree house but is spotted by a milkman. Tracy confronts Williams in the tree house, and their fight causes the old tree to break at the roots. Williams dies in the mishap. Meanwhile, Junior races the clock as he tries to get her to the hospital.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
21.5
Notes:
The top half of page 1 is a text summary of what has gone before.
Page 1, panel 3 copied minus a word balloon and third man. It is used as panel 4.
Page 1, panel 4 has a different word balloon.
Page 7, panel 1 - body deleted from panel.
Page 7, panels 9-11 - all dialogue changed from the original.
Page 10, panel 2 - dialogue changed.
Page 10, panel 6 is a blowup of panel 9 and replaces a dropped panel. It's a head shot of Empty Williams
but no balloon or caption.
Page 10, panel 7 is copied and turned into a close-up panel and used as panel 8
Page 10, panel 9 - dialogue changed. This is obvious from the extra space in the word balloon.
Page 19, panel 7 is redrawn to remove the body from the panel, even the injured body is shown in panel 4
Detail
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