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Issue: The Original Dick Tracy Comic Album #2
Publication Date: January 1990
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Issues: #2 of 3 Issues
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Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagGladstone
Brand: Gladstone GView Brand Images
Indicia Publisher: Gladstone Publishing, Ltd.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 52
ISBN: 0944599443
UPC/EAN: 978094459944090000
Price: $8.35 CAD
$5.95 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 7 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Matt Masterson
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: 8.5" x 11"
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Binding: softcover
Publishing Format: collected edition
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The Origin of the Two-Way Wrist Radio

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Colorist(s): Summer Hamilton
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy
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Pages: 1
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Dick Tracy and Two-Way Wrist Radio

Credits  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy
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Pages: 1
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Chester Gould Father of the Cellular Phone?

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Stuart Crump Jr.
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Synopsis: A brief history of the Dick Tracy Two-Way wrist radio and its possible impact on the cellular phone industry.
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Reprint Notes: Abridged from Personal Communications (series unknown) (January/February 1990)
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Pages: 1
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The Origin of the Two-Way Wrist Radio

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Chester Gould
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): Chester Gould
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, crime, drama, humorous, mystery
Feature(s): Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Diet Smith; B. O. Plenty; Brilliant; Irma
Synopsis: As the story opens, Diet Smith tells Tracy that he has killed a man. B. O. Plenty sees a burglar emerge from the basement of Diet Smith's house. He tells Tracy, who finds a strange watch dropped by the burglar. TRcy examines it closely in his lab and discovers that it is a two-way radio. With Smith's help, Tracy uses it as a communications tool for the police. Irma, thinking Smith cheated her son out of his invention, attempts to kill Smith as he takes a bath. Thinking she has succeeded, Irma shoots herself. Brilliant swears vengeance but changes his mind at the hospital.
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Reprint Notes: From Dick Tracy Newspaper Strip (Chicago Tribune) 1946-01-07 to 1946-03-23 (some panels edited and/or dropped)
Miscellaneous
Pages: 46
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Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Chester Gould
Inker(s): Chester Gould
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: crime
Feature(s): The Original Dick Tracy
Character(s): Dick Tracy; Itchy
Synopsis: Ad for The Original Dick Tracy regular-sized comic book.
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Disclose Notes: Back cover. Art used in this ad taken from previously undetermined printed sources.

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