(1999)
Avalon Communications,
1999 Series
- Price
- 2.95 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avalon Communications
- Brand
-
ACG - America's Comic Group
- Editing
- ?
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy
- Keywords
- wrist radio
From the Creator of "The Crow"
J. O'Barr's Original Sins / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Promo for J. O'Barr's Original Sins comic.
Chapter 1: A New Cop in Town
Dick Tracy / comic story / 19 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem (intro); Pat Patton; Sleet (villain)
- Synopsis
- Sam Catchem comes to town from Boston to join the force. He encounters a woman (Sleet) on whom he has evidence from a crime in Boston that he didn't report. He blackmails her to help the police find men from Big Frost's gang.
- Reprints
- from Dick Tracy daily and Sunday (Chicago Tribune) 1948.12.27-1949-01.15
- Keywords
- blackmail; closed circuit television; wrist radio
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Men?
The Shadow / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- The Shadow (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Promo for Pulp Action #1 featuring the Shadow, "starting in November!" Comes between pages 10 and 11 of the Dick Tracy story.
Witness the Crime and Take the Time
Dick Tracy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Characters
- Sleet
Indexer Notes
Promo for next issue's Dick Tracy story. Reprints panel from Dick Tracy strip of 1949.01.16.
Attention! Vietnam-Action-Joe Kubert!
Tales of the Green Berets / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for Tales of the Green Berets comic "coming in December!"
The Enemy Above
comic story / 8 pages
- Job Number
- D-4046
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- Germans and Americans have to stay silent to prevent an avalanche from burying a village in the French Alps.
- Reprints
-
from Fightin' Army (Charlton, 1956 series) #111 (September 1973)
-
- Keywords
- Alps; Americans; avalanche; France; Germans; World War II
The Return of an Epic!
Wilderness / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for Timothy Truman's Wilderness comic.
[From the team that brought you...]
Devil's Brigade / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for Devil's Brigade comic. All lettering, no illustration.
The Jack Kirby Collector #20
TwoMorrows / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Silver Surfer (cameo)
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover. Ad for The Jack Kirby Collector #20 and Comic Book Artist #1. Also mail-in coupon to order back issues of The Jack Kirby Collector #13-19.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy -
1.
From the Creator of "The Crow"
J. O'Barr's Original Sins -
2.
Chapter 1: A New Cop in Town
Dick Tracy -
3.
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Men?
The Shadow -
4.
Witness the Crime and Take the Time
Dick Tracy -
5.
Attention! Vietnam-Action-Joe Kubert!
Tales of the Green Berets -
6.
The Enemy Above
-
7.
The Return of an Epic!
Wilderness -
8.
[From the team that brought you...]
Devil's Brigade -
9.
The Jack Kirby Collector #20
TwoMorrows -
10.
["If you're interested in the art of the comic book"]
Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning
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- Merlin Haas
- Ramon Schenk
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