Super Comics #68

(January 1944)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1)

Dick Tracy / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Chester Gould (credited)

Pencils

Chester Gould (credited)

Inks

Chester Gould (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Job Number

S.C. 68-441

First Line of Dialogue or Text

A midget, named Jerome, double-crossed Doolb, his old boss...

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Dick Tracy; Jerome Trohs; Mamma; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Junior Tracy; Oscar (dog)

Synopsis

Trohs has his gang grab Tracy and bring him to his hideout, where he crushes Tracy's right hand in a vise. The gang dumps Tracy in a trash bin. Patton finds Mamma in a candy store, but is roughed up when he tries to handcuff her. Junior has a run-in with Mamma and her St. Bernard attacks Junior's dog Oscar. In the battle, the St. Bernard's dog tag comes off and Junior finds it and takes it to Tracy. Tracy and his men hide in a dog catcher's wagon and capture Mamma. Tracy and his men are waiting when Trohs and his gang return to their hideout.

Reprints

• in Four Color (Dell, 1942 series) #56 - Dick Tracy (1944)
• from Dick Tracy daily (Chicago Tribune) 1940-05-02 - 1940-xx-xx

Indexer Notes

The first page has the original strip date: 5-2-40.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Little Joe / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Ed Leffingwell (signed as Leffingwell)

Pencils

Ed Leffingwell (signed as Leffingwell)

Inks

Ed Leffingwell (signed as Leffingwell)

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Letters

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First Line of Dialogue or Text

Right decent of you, general...

Genre

western-frontier

Reprints

• from Little Joe Sundays (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3)

Brenda Starr / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Dale Messick (credited)

Pencils

Dale Messick (credited)

Inks

Dale Messick (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

And it's just a plain case of mistaken identity.

Genre

detective-mystery; adventure

Reprints

• from Brenda Starr Sundays (Chicago Tribune) 1940-08-11 (Panel 6) - 1940-08-25 (Panel 10)

Cloudy Williams Gets His Twenty-first Plane (Table of Contents: 4)

Cloudy Williams Gets His Twenty-First Plane / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob Jenney (credited)

Inks

Bob Jenney (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

Genre

aviation; war

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5)

Winnie Winkle / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Martin Branner (credited as Branner)

Pencils

Martin Branner (credited as Branner)

Inks

Martin Branner (credited as Branner)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You're just being selfish? If you'd only stop to figure it out...

Genre

drama; humor

Reprints

• from Winnie Winkle daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6)

Moon Mullins / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Frank Willard (credited)

Pencils

Frank Willard (credited)

Inks

Frank Willard (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Well, you will be when yer Uncle Stymie comes home...

Genre

humor; domestic

Reprints

• from Moon Mullins daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7)

Smitty / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Walter Berndt (credited as Berndt) (signed as Berndt)

Pencils

Walter Berndt (credited as Berndt) (signed as Berndt)

Inks

Walter Berndt (credited as Berndt) (signed as Berndt)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

I've got some problems to figure out and I can't seem...

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Smitty daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

By Blood and Toil (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Letters

typeset

Genre

animal; war

Characters

Pal (a great dane); Buddy Thorn (his handler)

Indexer Notes

Gaylord Du Bois script credit as per Gaylord Du Bois's Account Books Sorted by Title compiled from the original account books by Randall W. Scott (1984) - Page 135. Gaylord Du Bois script identification by David Porta, June 2014.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9)

You're in the Army Now / comic story / 0.75 page (report information)

Script

Jack Ficklen (credited as Herc Ficklen) (signed as Herc Ficklen)

Pencils

Jack Ficklen (credited as Herc Ficklen) (signed as Herc Ficklen)

Inks

Jack Ficklen (credited as Herc Ficklen) (signed as Herc Ficklen)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Maybe that will help y' remember your left foot...

Genre

humor; military

Reprints

• from You're in the Army Now daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 10)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script

Helen Meyer (credited) (business manager)

Letters

typeset

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 11)

Harold Teen / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Carl Ed (credited)

Pencils

Carl Ed (credited)

Inks

Carl Ed (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Good heavens? My boy! -- a robber? I didn't do it, Ma!

Genre

domestic; teen

Reprints

• from Harold Teen daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12)

Tiny Tim / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Stanley Link (credited)

Pencils

Stanley Link (credited)

Inks

Stanley Link (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Why, Bobbie, you're standing! And you can walk!

Genre

adventure; children

Reprints

• from Tiny Tim daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx

Mr. Tsao's Fowl Deed (Table of Contents: 13)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Colors

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

war

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

Clyde Beatty / comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

Gaylord Du Bois

Pencils

Jim Chambers (credited)

Inks

Jim Chambers (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Stop the train! This is a through track, sir.

Genre

adventure; jungle; animal

Characters

Clyde Beatty; Jim Tracker; Gaywood

Synopsis

Clyde and Tracker track Gaywood through the forest.

Keywords

locomotives; railroads; tracking; trains

Indexer Notes

Du Bois script credit from the Catalog of Copyright Entries.
Copyright 1943 by Famous Artists Syn., Inc.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15)

Sweeney & Son / comic story / 1 page (report information)

Script

Al Posen (credited as Posen)

Pencils

Al Posen (credited as Posen)

Inks

Al Posen (credited as Posen)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

The rain's stopped and the sun's out!

Genre

humor

Reprints

• from Sweeney & Son Sundays (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16)

Little Orphan Annie / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

Harold Gray (credited)

Pencils

Harold Gray (credited)

Inks

Harold Gray (credited)

Colors

?

Letters

?

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Without leaders, the rest of that mob wouldn't be dangerous.

Genre

drama; adventure; children

Reprints

• from Little Orphan Annie daily (Chicago Tribune) xxxx-xx-xx - xxxx-xx-xx