Four Color
#133 - Dick Tracy
([January] 1947)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 52
- On-sale Date
- 1946
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
A Dell Magazine [circle]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- ?
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 133." No code number. Copyright 1941 by The Chicago Tribune. Fifth of six Dick Tracy Four Colors.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy
Indexer Notes
Cover is montage of panels from the comic.
[Crime, Inc.]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- "Crime Inc." What is this, a joke? Is it possible that was pinned there by the killer?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome
- Synopsis
- Tracy is on the trail of Krome, an assassin who uses modified children's toys to kill his victims. Krome's girlfriend Kitty does not approve of his criminal activities.
- Reprints
-
from Super Comics (Dell, 1943 series) #81 (February 1945) which is reprinted - From Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940? newspaper strips.
-
- Keywords
- bow-and-arrow; crime; electric steam engine; gambling; gangsters; kangaroo; murder; nitroglycerin; toys
Indexer Notes
Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white.
[Kitty]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- With the two leaders of Crime, Inc. covering him, Tracy has a nitroglycerin bomb as his only weapon. As he is about to hurl it, someone opens fire on the gangsters from outside...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome
- Synopsis
- Krome's girlfriend Kitty rescues him from Tracy, but plans to turn him in to the police. At their apartment, Krome gets the upper hand and puts Kitty in a death trap. He then goes on the run in a snowstorm, followed by Tracy.
- Reprints
- from Super Comics (Dell, 1943 series) #82 (March 1945) which is reprinted
- from Dick Tracy daily and Sunday (The Chicago Tribune) 1941-01-15 [Strip originally entitled "Bomb Diver". First panel trimmed on left side, and Second and third panels trimmed on right side.]
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940? newspaper strips.
-
- Keywords
- electrocution; hair dryer; radio shows; recordings
Indexer Notes
Story continues from previous sequence.
[Lost in a Blizzard]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hold it, Tracy! I've got to get my breath!
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome
- Synopsis
- Krome makes his way through the blizzard to a doctor's office, where his arm has to be amputated because of gangrene from a bullet wound. Tracy and Patton eventually make it to the same doctor, who has sent Krome on a snowplow back to the city. Tracy arrests the doctor, suspecting him of involvement with Crime, Inc. He places the doctor in the custody of the local constable. Tracy and Patton pursue the snowplow. Krome forces the snowplow driver to drive out on the river ice, which gives way and the snowplow plunges through the ice.
- Reprints
- from Super Comics (Dell, 1943 series) #83 (April 1945) which is reprinted
- from Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940? newspaper strips
-
- Keywords
- amputation; blizzard; checkers; corruption; cronyism; ice; rural towns; snowplows
Indexer Notes
Story continues from previous sequence.
[Selbert the Killer]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Easy, boys, the ice is bobbing!
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome; Selbert; Mrs. DePool
- Synopsis
- Tracy and Patton rescue the snowplow driver, but Krome freezes to death hiding in a snow drift. Meanwhile the doctor who amputated Krome's arm bribes the constable to help him escape, but Tracy and Patton return in time to turn the pair over to the state's attorney. Back in the city a brute named Selbert escapes from an insane asylum and kills wealthy Angus DePool.
- Reprints
- from Super Comics (Dell, 1943 series) #84 (May 1945) which is reprinted
- from Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940 newspaper strips.
-
- Keywords
- athletic club; bribery; corruption; ice; murder; Turkish bath
Indexer Notes
Story continues from previous sequence.
[Selbert hides in Mrs. DePool's House]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Did Mr. DePool visit the athletic club regularly?
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Selbert; Mrs. DePool
- Synopsis
- Mrs. DePool, Selbert’s aunt, hides Selbert in a cistern in the basement of her mansion. Although Selbert murdered her husband, Mrs. DePool sympathizes with him. To gain control over Selbert’s father’s money, Mr. DePool had framed Selbert and gotten him sentenced to 22 years in an insane asylum. Mrs. DePool’s granddaughter suspects there is someone hiding in the house, as does Tracy.
- Reprints
- from Super Comics (Dell, 1943 series) #85 (June 1945) which is reprinted
- from Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940 newspaper strips.
-
- Keywords
- cistern; sweater
Indexer Notes
Story continues from previous sequence.
[Poisoned Doorbell]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 11 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- In spite of Mrs. DePool's watchfulness, Selbert does succeed in seizing the granddaughter, Myrna, and taking her to the basement. The old lady follows...
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Selbert; Mrs. DePool; Tess Truehart
- Synopsis
- Selbert kidnaps Myrna, Mrs. DePool's granddaughter, and imprisons her in the basement cistern. Mrs. DePool then shoots Selbert, though not fatally, and rigs a poisoned doorbell to get Tracy. However, Myrna's fiancé is the one who rings the bell and gets the poison. Selbert clubs Tracy when he comes to investigate and he is tossed in the cistern. Mrs. DePool and Selbert prepare to leave, but Selbert presses Mrs. DePool's hand on the poisoned doorbell, grabs a chest of cash, and flees after setting the house on fire.
- Reprints
- from Dick Tracy (News-Tribune Syndicate) 1940 newspaper strips.
- Keywords
- doorbell; fire
Indexer Notes
Story continues from previous sequence. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color.
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy -
1.
[Crime, Inc.]
Dick Tracy -
2.
[Kitty]
Dick Tracy -
3.
[Lost in a Blizzard]
Dick Tracy -
4.
[Selbert the Killer]
Dick Tracy -
5.
[Selbert hides in Mrs. DePool's House]
Dick Tracy -
6.
[Poisoned Doorbell]
Dick Tracy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Dwayne Best
- Pat Conolly
- Gregory Fischer
- Sergio Goncalves
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Bob Hughes
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Keith Alan Morgan
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