Credits
Writer(s):
Max Allan Collins
Penciller(s):
Dick Locher
Inker(s):
Dick Locher
Letterer(s):
?
Subject Matter
Genres:
crime, espionage, mystery
Feature(s):
Dick Tracy
Character(s):
Dick Tracy; Wendy Wichel; Pat Patton; Roloc Bard; Jim Trailer; Shaky; Flattop; Pruneface [Boche]; Mrs. Pruneface; Frieda Smith; Junior Tracy; Dr. Freezdrei
First Line:
Detective Tracy -- please wait!
Synopsis:
Tracy relates how Nazi spies kidnapped Roloc Bard for his Xylon bomb formula. By threatening Frieda Smith (actually Pruneface's confederate), Pruneface forces Bard to make five bombs. Junior Tracy frees Bard and four of the bombs are found and defused. Decades later Pruneface, long presumed dead, is awakened from cryogenic freezing. Tracy, Trailer, and Wichel find Frieda still tending the last bomb in Washington, D.C., defuse it, and lead her away in tears, heartbroken that Pruneface had never issued her the final order to blow up the capital. In the now-empty house, the telephone rings.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:
Miscellaneous
Pages:
57
Notes:
Originally appeared as daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips between March 18, 1985 and September 4, 1985.