(2000)
Avalon Communications,
1999 Series
- Price
- 2.95 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Avalon Communications
- Brand
-
ACG Classix
- Editing
- ?
[Sleet]
Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Sleet
Indexer Notes
Enlarged panel from interior (daily strip of February 28, 1949).
The Final Frontier!
Star Hawks / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Promo for Star Hawks comic.
Is Ketchum Dead? [sic]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 25 pages
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Sleet; Junior Tracy; The Crimestoppers; Pat
- Synopsis
- Tracy and the force search the city for the injured Sam Catchem, eventually finding him on Skid-Row. Later Sleet escapes after being taken from jail to the hospital and gets a job washing dishes in a diner.
- Reprints
- from Dick Tracy daily and Sunday (Chicago Tribune) 1949.02.05-1949.03.05
- Keywords
- dishwasher; hospital; jail
Indexer Notes
Sam Catchem's name is misspelled in the title.
Who?
Herbie / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- humour
- Characters
- Herbie
- Reprints
- from ?
Indexer Notes
Promo for Herbie comics, reprinted from the original series. Comes between pages 14 and 15 of the Dick Tracy story.
Attention! Vietnam-Action-Joe Kubert!
Tales of the Green Berets / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Joe Kubert
- Inks
- Joe Kubert
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Promo for Tales of the Green Berets comic.
Spy in the Sky
comic story / 1 page
- Job Number
- D-7316
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- Use of observation balloons in the Civil War and World War I.
- Reprints
-
from War (Charlton, 1975 series) #9 (November 1976)
-
- Keywords
- American Civil War; balloons; World War I
The Final Frontier!
Star Hawks / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- Genre
- science fiction
Indexer Notes
Promo for Star Hawks comic. Same promo as the inside front cover.
No Alarm
comic story / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Charles Nicholas
- Inks
- Vince Alascia
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- war
- Synopsis
- Military events early on December 7, 1941, preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, that inexplicably did not cause an alarm to be sounded.
- Reprints
- from War (Charlton, 1975 series) #9 (November 1976)
-
- Keywords
- 1941; Hawaii; Japanese; Pearl Harbor; submarine; World War II
A Classic Collection from ACG Comics
Sherlock Holmes / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Promo for Sherlock Holmes comic.
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.
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. Mail-in coupon for The Jack Kirby Collector #13-19.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
[Sleet]
Dick Tracy -
1.
The Final Frontier!
Star Hawks -
2.
Is Ketchum Dead? [sic]
Dick Tracy -
3.
Who?
Herbie -
4.
Attention! Vietnam-Action-Joe Kubert!
Tales of the Green Berets -
5.
Spy in the Sky
-
6.
The Final Frontier!
Star Hawks -
7.
No Alarm
-
8.
A Classic Collection from ACG Comics
Sherlock Holmes -
9.
Who Knows What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Men?
The Shadow -
10.
The Jack Kirby Collector #20
TwoMorrows -
11.
[If You're Interested in the Art of the Comic Book]
Joe Kubert's World of Cartooning
This issue was modified by, among others
- Boris Ammerlaan
- Valmiki Annamanthadoo
- Merlin Haas
- Ramon Schenk
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.