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Issue: A Cop Called Tracy #8
Publication Date: January 1999
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Issues: #8 of 24 Issues (25 Printings)
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagAvalon Communications
Brand: ACG - America's Comic GroupView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Avalon Communications
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $2.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Colour cover; Black and White interior
Dimensions: Standard Modern Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was ongoing
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Chester Gould ?
Inker(s): Chester Gould ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Tim Truman - Tim Bradstreet

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dragon Chiang
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Promo for "Dragon Chiang" comic.
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Montage

Reprise  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Selbert; Mrs. DePoole; Myrna
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Parts of panels in a montage showing roughly what happened in the previous issue. Logo, but no other text.
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Selbert the Killer (Part 2)

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Chester Gould
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: mystery
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Selbert DePoole; Mrs. DePoole; Myrna; Carter; Revol
Synopsis: Mrs. DePool shoots Selbert when he threatens Myrna, her granddaughter. Selbert gets his revenge by killing Mrs. DePoole with a poisoned doorbell and setting the house on fire while Tracy is trapped in a basement cistern hideout. Selbert buys a diner, but one of the women hostesses gets suspicious and Selbert drowns her by pushing a car into a river. Selbert sneaks into a parade float to escape, but is double-crossed when the float driver rams the float into a low viaduct.
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Reprint Notes: from Dick Tracy daily and Sunday (Chicago Tribune) 1941.03.17-1941.05.10
Miscellaneous
Pages: 30
Disclose Notes: Continued from last issue.
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Introducing--"Dick Tracy"

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): The Scrapbook of Chester Gould
Character(s): Dick Tracy (cameo); Chief Brandon (cameo); Pat Patton (cameo); Junior (cameo); Tess Trueheart (cameo)
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Reprint Notes: from Portland Oregonian 1933.02.26
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Promo from 1933.02.26 introducing the Dick Tracy strip into the Portland (Ore.) Oregonian newspaper.
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The Jack Kirby Collector #20

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): TwoMorrows
Character(s): Silver Surfer (cameo)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for The Jack Kirby Collector #20 and Comic Book Artist #1. Mail-in coupon for ordering back issues of The Jack Kirby Collector #13-19.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Comic Book Marketplace
First Line: You've just discovered...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Back cover. Ad for "Comic Book Marketplace" magazine.

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