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Issue: Dick Tracy #4
Publication Date: January 1986
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Issues: #4 of 24 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagBlackthorne
Brand: none
Indicia Publisher: Blackthorne Publishing Inc.
On Sale Date: 1986
Volume: none
Pages: 76
ISBN: 0932629261
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $5.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 8 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Shel Dorf
Disclose Notes: Reprints Dick Tracy newspaper strips from April 30, 1947 through July 15, 1947.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color cover; black and white interior
Dimensions:  
Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; white matte interior
Binding: squarebound
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Chester Gould (original art)
Inker(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Chester Gould (original art)
Colorist(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Shel Dorf (design)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; Tess Trueheart; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; B.O. Plenty; Sparkle Plenty; Gravel Gertie
Synopsis: Montage of Dick Tracy characters, emphasizing the birth of Sparkle Plenty.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Cover/color design, Shel Dorf. Front and back covers painted by Barbara Marker. Paste up, Shel Dorf." From images by Chester Gould.
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Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Shel Dorf
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Essay on the value of newspaper strip reprints.
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Pages: 1
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Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Chester Gould
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; B.O. Plenty; Sparkle Plenty (birth and first appearance); Gravel Gertie; Chief Patton; Bronko; Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers (origin and first appearance); Diet Smith
First Line: At headquarters.
Synopsis: Junior Tracy forms the Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers and takes the lead in reforming a young hoodlum. Gravel Gertie gives birth to Sparkle Plenty amid universal rejoicing, but almost loses her life in the process.
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Pages: 66
Disclose Notes: Reprints newspaper strips from April 30, 1947 through July 15, 1947.
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The World's Most Famous Detective

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Max Allan Collins
Penciller(s): Rich Pietrzyk (photograph)
Inker(s): Rich Pietrzyk (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Essay on Chester Gould.
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Photo of Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy. Max Allan Collins succeeded Gould in scripting the strip on Gould's retirement.
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200 Characters from Dick Tracy 1931-1977

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Matt Masterson
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Matt Masterson introduces his paste-up of Dick Tracy characters.
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Pages: 1
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Letterer(s): typeset; ? lettering
Subject Matter
Character(s): Chief Brandon; Pat Patton Tess Trueheart; Big Boy; Texie Garcia; Ribs Mocco; Junior; Steve the Tramp; Stooge Viller: Hank Steele; Spaldoni; Jimmy White; Jean Penfield; Doc Hump; Larceny Lou; Mary Steele; Boris Arson; Zora Arson; Toby Townly; Bookie Joe; Cut Famon; Jim Trailer; Athnel Jones; Lips Manlis; Toyee; Mimi; Purple Cross Gang; Maylie
First Line: Chief Brandon 1931
Synopsis: Paste-ups of Dick Tracy characters, 1931-1936.
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Pages: 3
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The Reuben

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Milton Caniff
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: Essay on the Reuben Award, by the first winner. List of winners from 1946 through 1984.
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Illustration  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Chester Gould (original art)
Inker(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Chester Gould (original art)
Colorist(s): Barbara Marker (painting); Shel Dorf (design)
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Junior Tracy; Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers
First Line: Origin Story: Dick Tracy Crime Stoppers
Synopsis: Dick Tracy with Crime Stoppers
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: "Cover/color design, Shel Dorf. Front and back covers painted by Barbara Marker. Paste up, Shel Dorf." From illustrations by Chester Gould.

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