Dick Tracy
#125
(July 1958)
Harvey,
1950 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Harvey Publications Inc.
- Brand
-
Harvey Comics [Stamp]
- Editing
- Leon Harvey (credited) (editor)
Everybody Loves the Big "H" Comics
Harvey Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; drama; humor; children; crime; domestic; sports
- Characters
- Dagwood; Little Lotta; Felix the Cat; Inky; Dinky; Little Dot; Casper; Hot Stuff; Little Audrey; Sad Sack; Joe Palooka' Baby Huey; Blondie; Little Max; Dick Tracy; Spoonmen.
- Synopsis
- Ad for 18 current Harvey Comics titles.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover.
The Case of the Desperate Widow!
Dick Tracy / comic story / 13 pages
- Genre
- adventure; drama; humor; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Oodles; Mary Vulcan; Benny-the-Grip
- Synopsis
- Sam and Tracy get a clue to George Vulcan's killer from clothing found in a crook's apartment. Mary Vulcan attempts to get an incriminating tape from Oodles, but Oodles tricks her by giving her a blank tape. Tracy questions Mrs. Vulcan to get to the truth of her husband's murder.
- Reprints
- Dick Tracy Newspaper Strip (Chicago Tribune) 1955-08-xx to 1955-12-xx.
[no title indexed]
Goodyear Bicycle Tires / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- What do you like? Get there by bike!
- Synopsis
- Ad for Goodyear bicycle tires
Indexer Notes
This ad appears between pages 1 and 2 of "The Case of the Desperate Widow."
[no title indexed]
AMF Roadmaster Bicycles / advertisement / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Irv Novick
- Inks
- Irv Novick
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Modern guys look for the Speed-Sweep look
- Synopsis
- Ad for the AMF Roadmaster bicycle.
[no title indexed]
Nabisco Spoon-Size Shredded Wheat Juniors; The Spoonmen / comics-form advertising / 2 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm Munchy - and I zoom thru space!
- Genre
- humor; science fiction
- Characters
- Crumchy; Munchy; Spoon-Size
- Synopsis
- Ad for Nabisco Shredded Wheat.
[no title indexed]
Stewart-Warner Bike Speedometer / comics-form advertising / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey gang! Look what I've got...
- Synopsis
- Ad for the precision Stewart-Warner bicycle speedometer.
[no title indexed]
Harvey Comics / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Meet Hot Stuff
- Genre
- humor; children; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Hot Stuff; Stumbo
- Synopsis
- House ad for Hot Stuff.
[no title indexed]
Joe Palooka / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.25 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- New exciting Joe Palooka comics!
- Genre
- adventure; sports
- Characters
- Joe Palooka; Knobby; Humphrey; Little Max
- Synopsis
- House ad for the latest issue of Joe Palooka Comics.
[The Case of the Desperate Widow!] Part Two... Something for "Nothing"
Dick Tracy / comic story / 9 pages
- Genre
- adventure; drama; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Oodles; Mary Vulcan; Nothing Yonson
- Synopsis
- Oodles agrees to meet Mrs. Vulcan and deliver the "real" incriminating tape. He lures her to a drive-in theater where he kills her. Tracy and Sam recover a book belonging to Oodles that details his plans. Tracy visits restaurant owner "Nothing" Yonson and gets the information he needs to arrest and convicy Oodles/
- Reprints
- From Dick Tracy Newspaper Strip (Chicago Tribune) 1955-08-xx to 1955-12-xx.
Society's Debtor
text story / 0.9 page
- Genre
- adventure; crime
- Reprints
-
from Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #32 (October 1950)
-
[no title indexed]
Little Max / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- The cutest kid in comics
- Genre
- humor; children
- Characters
- Little Max
- Synopsis
- Promo for the latest issue of Little Max Comics.
[no title indexed]
Crimestoppers Textbook / comic story / 0.8 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Be alert to any suspicious looking car weighted down in the back.
- Genre
- crime
- Synopsis
- Eight panels of crimestopper tips including weighted cars, first aid, shirt material, missing license plates, cab registration, and door lock safety.
Indexer Notes
These are most likely reprinted from the Dick Tracy Sunday newspaper strip.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Oodles finds a hideout!
- Genre
- crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Oodles
- Synopsis
- Ad for Dick Tracy Comics Monthly No. 126.
Indexer Notes
No One Sale Date given.
Operation Moonshine
text story / 0.8 page
- Genre
- adventure
- Characters
- Peter Wilkins
- Synopsis
- An ATU agent uses an airplane to spot moonshine stills from the air.
- Reprints
- from Terry and the Pirates Comics (Harvey, 1947 series) #26 (April 1951)
-
Indexer Notes
this page also contains statement of ownership and management plus an ad for Flash Gordon Comics.
[no title indexed]
Sad Sack / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.2 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Everyone loves Sad Sack and the Sarge and all their funny Friends
- Genre
- humor; military
- Characters
- Sad Sack; Sarge; Sadie Sack
- Synopsis
- Generic house ad for Sad Sack Comics.
[no title indexed]
Garcelon Stamps / advertisement / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Free! Wonderful offer! Elizabeth II colonies stamps...
- Synopsis
- Ad for stamps from different countries of the British Empire.
A Real Mobile Tank
Missile Firing Tank / advertisement / 0.5 page
Indexer Notes
Ad for 6 foot long U.S. Army tank for $4.98 from Honor House Products.
[no title indexed]
Power Gym / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Develop muscles of steel!
Indexer Notes
Ad for "Power Gym" muscle builder from Honor House Products.
[no title indexed]
Zorro Color Television Set / advertisement / 0.5 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hey kids!! Send for the new Walt Disney Zorro color television set
- Characters
- Zorro
- Synopsis
- Ad for a portable filmstrip projector featuring Disney characters.
- Reprints
- from Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #124 (June 1958)
-
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Case of the Widow's Desperate Gamble
Dick Tracy -
1.
Everybody Loves the Big "H" Comics
Harvey Comics -
2.
The Case of the Desperate Widow!
Dick Tracy -
3.
["What do you like? Get there by bike!"]
Goodyear Bicycle Tires -
4.
["Modern guys look for the Speed-Sweep look"]
AMF Roadmaster Bicycles -
5.
["I'm Munchy - and I zoom thru space!"]
Nabisco Spoon-Size Shredded Wheat Juniors; The Spoonmen -
6.
["Hey gang! Look what I've got..."]
Stewart-Warner Bike Speedometer -
7.
["Meet Hot Stuff"]
Harvey Comics -
8.
["New exciting Joe Palooka comics!"]
Joe Palooka -
9.
[The Case of the Desperate Widow!] Part Two... Something for "Nothing"
Dick Tracy -
10.
Society's Debtor
-
11.
["The cutest kid in comics"]
Little Max -
12.
["Be alert to any suspicious looking car weighted down in the back."]
Crimestoppers Textbook -
13.
["Oodles finds a hideout!"]
Dick Tracy -
14.
Operation Moonshine
-
15.
["Everyone loves Sad Sack and the Sarge and all their funny Friends"]
Sad Sack -
16.
["Free! Wonderful offer! Elizabeth II colonies stamps..."]
Garcelon Stamps -
17.
A Real Mobile Tank
Missile Firing Tank -
18.
["Develop muscles of steel!"]
Power Gym -
19.
["Hey kids!! Send for the new Walt Disney Zorro color television set"]
Zorro Color Television Set -
20.
["Boys - girls - men - women..."]
The FUNman Religious Wall Motto Plaques
This issue was modified by, among others
- Chris Boyko
- Nick Caputo
- Jean-Francois Masse
- Donald Dale Milne
- Gene Reed (R.I.P.)
All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are
copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.