(October 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
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Dr Plain
- Keywords
- newspaper comic strip
Indexer Notes
Paste-up of Dick Tracy sequence.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Coming soon from... Blackthorne Publishing
- Characters
- Dick Tracy
- Synopsis
- Promo for Dick Tracy Monthly, # 22, from Blackthorne
- Keywords
- Two-way wrist radio
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Dick Tracy / comic story / 31 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- And now, the Sparkle Plenty Show
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery; medical
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sparkle Plenty; B O Plenty; Gravel Gertie; Dr Keenan Plain; Mona Plain; Tess Tracy; Sam Catchem; Mrs Forchune
- Synopsis
- The Tracy and Plenty families celebrate Christmas. Dr Plain surreptitiously kills off members of the Forchune family, in order to inherit a South American nitrate plant. Sam tracks murder evidence down an icy river. Tracy (with gun) and Plain (with prosthetic flamethrower) battle; Plain is burned to ashes by spilled gasoline.
- Keywords
- Christmas; Christmas carol; doctor; flamethrower; holiday; hospital; inheritance; newspaper comic strip; nurse; police; prosthetic; snow; television; TV; two-way wrist radio; winter
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Kerry Drake / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Available now from... Blackthorne Publishing
- Genre
- drama
- Characters
- Kerry Drake
- Synopsis
- Promo for Kerry Drake, # 5 ("1946 Anti-Drug Story"), from Blackthorne
- Keywords
- Drugs; hashish; marihuana; marijuana; newspaper comic strip
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Blackthorne Publishing Inc
- 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
[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 & Hardy In 3-D, # 1, from Blackthorne
- Keywords
- 3-D
Editing
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Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Dick Tracy -
1.
["Coming soon from... Blackthorne Publishing"]
Dick Tracy -
2.
["And now, the Sparkle Plenty Show"]
Dick Tracy -
3.
["Available now from... Blackthorne Publishing"]
Kerry Drake -
4.
["Blackthorne Publishing Inc"]
Dick Tracy -
5.
["It's Laurel and Hardy's 60th anniversary!"]
Laurel and Hardy
This issue was modified by, among others
- Kirk House
- Ramon Schenk
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