(September 1987)
Blackthorne,
1986 Series
- Price
- 2.00 USD; 2.75 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1987
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Blackthorne Publishing Inc.
- Brand
-
Blackthorne Publishing Incorporated
- Editing
- Shel Dorf
Issue Notes
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dick Tracy Monthly
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Blowtop; Vitamin Flintheart; Sam Catchem; visitor from Borneo
- Synopsis
- Montage of Dick Tracy scenes
- Keywords
- police; shrunken head
["He left his cab!]
Dick Tracy / comic story / 31 pages
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Vitamin Flintheart; Blowtop; B O Plenty; Sparkle Plenty; Ted Tellum; T V Wiggles
- Synopsis
- Hiding stolen loot in a river, Blowtop slips and knocks himself unconscious, giving Vitamin a chance to tie him up. Vitamin is trapped in the river trying to recover his prized shrunken head when Blowtop revives and starts shooting. Tracy and Catchem capture him and save Vitamin. Sparkle Plenty makes a hit on Ted Tellum's amateur show, and Vitamin becomes her agent. Protection racketeer T.V. Wiggles paralyzes Sparkle with a wrestling hold.
- Reprints
- Compilation of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips from June 22, 1950 through August 19, 1950.
- Keywords
- Police; shrunken head; television; TV; ukulele
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Blackthorne Publishing Inc
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy
- Synopsis
- Promo for Dick Tracy: The "Unprinted" Stories, # 1, from Blackthorne
- Reprints
-
from Dick Tracy: The Unprinted Stories (Blackthorne, 1987 series) #1 (September 1987)
-
- Keywords
- megaphone; police
Indexer Notes
Large black-and-white image of cover
[no title indexed]
Laurel and Hardy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- It's Laurel and Hardy's 60th anniversary!
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Stanley Laurel; Oliver Hardy
- Synopsis
- Promo for Laurel And Hardy In 3-D, # 1, from Blackthorne
- Keywords
- 3-D; Movie tie-in
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy -
1.
["Coming soon from... Blackthorne Publishing"]
Dick Tracy -
2.
["Dick Tracy Monthly"]
Dick Tracy -
3.
["He left his cab!]
Dick Tracy -
4.
["Blackthorne Publishing Inc"]
Dick Tracy -
5.
["It's Laurel and Hardy's 60th anniversary!"]
Laurel and Hardy
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- Kirk House
- Ramon Schenk
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