Dick Tracy
#101
(July 1956)
Harvey,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- Monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1956-05-17
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited)
Issue Notes
On sale date based on the date in the Big 'H' Kid News feature in this issue.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Joe Simon [as Chester Gould] (painting)
- Inks
- Joe Simon [as Chester Gould] (painting)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- adventure; crime
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Open-Mind Monty
Indexer Notes
Art credit based on Joe Simon's comments in his book The Comic Book Makers.
Now! Own the Daisy Eagle
Daisy Manufacturing Company / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- children; sports
- Synopsis
- Ad for several models of Daisy air rifles, spotlighting the Daisy Eagle.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
Dick Tracy Solves the Case of the Homing Pidgeons
Dick Tracy / comic story / 21 pages
- Genre
- adventure; drama; humor; children; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Open-Mind Monty; B. O. Plenty; Gravel Gertis; Sparkle Plenty; Wingy; Diet Smith; Half-Pint
- Synopsis
- Tracy and Sam use tear gas to drive Open-Mind Monty from his greenhouse hideaway. Tracy reveals that Monty's knife in the skull is nothing more than clever make-up. Meanwhile, B. O. Plenty buys a wading pool for the kids. A torrential downpour floods B. O.'s property, and as he and Gertie sleep through the storm, Sparkle and WIngy try to save their wading pool only to find themselves swept away by the flood waters.
- Reprints
- From Dick Tracy Newspaper Strip (Chicago Tribune) 19xx-xx-xx to 19xx-xx-xx.
Indexer Notes
Ads appear between pages 1 and 2 and pages 13 and 14 of this story.
They're Here! Colored Bike Tires!
Goodyear / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- children; sports
- Synopsis
- Ad for new Goodyear bicycle tires in various colors.
Indexer Notes
This ad appears between pages 1 and 2 of the Dick Tracy story.
Footnotes on Wild Animals
US Keds / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; animal
- Characters
- The Old Hunter
- Synopsis
- The Old Hunter talks about the cheetah and the mole.
Indexer Notes
This is the first of four ad pages appearing between page 13 and 14 of the Dick Tracy story.
Gabby Hayes Says: Hey Kids...Hey Moms and Dads!
Popsicle / advertisement / 2 pages
- Genre
- humor; children; western-frontier
- Characters
- Gabby Hayes; Popsicle Pete
- Synopsis
- Announcing the Popsicle Western Round-Up Tucson Dude Ranch Contest featuring thousands of prizes. Contest continues for 10 weeks.
Indexer Notes
This ad appears on the second and third of four pages of ads between pages 13 and 14 of the Dick Tracy story. These two pages are the center spread of the comic book.
Hi, kids! July is going to be quite a month as far as you Harvey Comics are concerned.
Harvey Comics News / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; drama; humor; anthropomorphic-funny animals; children; crime; detective-mystery; domestic; fantasy-supernatural; military
- Characters
- Spooky; Little Lotta; Casper; Felix the Cat; Blondie; Dagwood; Baby Huey; Dick Tracy; Sad Sack; Big H Kid
- Synopsis
- Previews and promotional copy for Harvey Comics currently on sale. Approximate on sale dates are given for each title.
Indexer Notes
This ad appears of the fourth of four pages of ads between pages 13 and 14 of the Dick Tracy story.
The FBI Fingerprint Bureau
America's Finest / text story / 0.75 page
- Genre
- crime; history
- Synopsis
- Brief history of how fingerprints are used to identify criminals.
- Reprints
-
from Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #49 (March 1952)
-
Indexer Notes
This text feature immediately follows the Dick Tracy story.
Wildroot Cream-Oil Gives You Confidence!
Wildroot Cream-Oil / advertisement / 0.25 page
- Genre
- fashion
- Synopsis
- A fireman tries to save a man from a fire.
A True F.B.I. Case
text article / 0.8 page
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Walt Taft; Pete Cernak
- Synopsis
- Fingerprints are used to identify a murder victim.
These Fine Products Are Advertised in OUr July 1956 Harvey Comics
advertisement / 0.2 page
- Genre
- children; fantasy-supernatural; fashion; sports
- Characters
- Casper the Ghost
- Synopsis
- Casper introduces the various products advertised in this month's Harvey Comics.
The Case of the Blue Toe
comic story / 2 pages
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Jackie Paige; Detective Lieutenant Gil Mason
- Synopsis
- Jackie solves a murder when she notices the odd characteristics of a set of footprints.
- Reprints
- from Kerry Drake Detective Cases (Harvey, 1948 series) #21 (August 1950) [Bob Powell's signature removed the the story is reprinted.]
-
Indexer Notes
The main clue in the story matches one written by the master of the mystery puzzle, Austin Ripley, where Ripley's character, Dr. Joseph Fordney, deduced that the murderer was wearing cheap shoes with cheap blue socks, with a hole in the sole allowing the dye to run when the killer stepped in water. (pointed out by Anthony William Durrant)
For School...Home...Work
Scripto / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Genre
- fashion
- Characters
- Al Morrison
- Synopsis
- Ad for various Scripto pens and mechanical pencils.
Free! Elizabeth II Empire Stamps
Garcelon Stamp Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page
- Genre
- historical
- Characters
- Queen Elizabeth II
- Synopsis
- Ad for a packet stamps plus a booklet about stamp collecting.
Tne New 1956 Action-Engineered AMF Roadmaster
AMF Roadmaster / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- children; sports
- Synopsis
- Ad for the new 1956 AMF Roadmaster bicycle.
Boys - Girls - Men - Women Prizes Given
The FUNman / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- children
- Synopsis
- Ad to recruit salespeople to sell plaques that display religious mottoes.
- Reprints
- from Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #100 (June 1956) which is reprinted
- from Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #99 (May 1956)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy -
1.
Now! Own the Daisy Eagle
Daisy Manufacturing Company -
2.
Dick Tracy Solves the Case of the Homing Pidgeons
Dick Tracy -
3.
They're Here! Colored Bike Tires!
Goodyear -
4.
Footnotes on Wild Animals
US Keds -
5.
Gabby Hayes Says: Hey Kids...Hey Moms and Dads!
Popsicle -
6.
Hi, kids! July is going to be quite a month as far as you Harvey Comics are concerned.
Harvey Comics News -
7.
The FBI Fingerprint Bureau
America's Finest -
8.
Wildroot Cream-Oil Gives You Confidence!
Wildroot Cream-Oil -
9.
A True F.B.I. Case
-
10.
These Fine Products Are Advertised in OUr July 1956 Harvey Comics
-
11.
The Case of the Blue Toe
-
12.
For School...Home...Work
Scripto -
13.
Free! Elizabeth II Empire Stamps
Garcelon Stamp Co. -
14.
Tne New 1956 Action-Engineered AMF Roadmaster
AMF Roadmaster -
15.
Boys - Girls - Men - Women Prizes Given
The FUNman -
16.
Makes Cold Drinks Instantly
Curtiss Candy Company
This issue was modified by, among others
- Steve Coates
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
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