Dick Tracy Weekly #52

(September 1988)

Dick Tracy Weekly (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Blackthorne Publishing / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[Meet the Kitten Sisters] (Table of Contents: 2)

Dick Tracy / comic story / 32 pages (report information)

Script

Chester Gould

Pencils

Chester Gould

Inks

Chester Gould

Letters

?

Genre

detective-mystery

Characters

Dick Tracy; B.O. Plenty; Gravel Gertie; Tess Tracy; Junior Tracy; Bonnie Braids; Lizz; Sam Catchem; Inga Yelma (death); Kitten Sisters (villains); Fence

Synopsis

B.O. Plenty opens a hot dog stand near the National Ski Meet. Inga Yelma is killed with a bow and arrow while ski jumping, which brings Tracy into the picture. It turns out that Yelma was originally part of a vaudeville acrobatic act called the Kitten Sisters, but left when the other three went into professional shoplifting. Tracy finds the murder weapon but is captured by the Kitten Sisters. They beat him and eventually set him afloat on an ice flow, handcuffed and tied to heavy weights. Tracy is rescued, but by the time he finds the girls' hideout, the Kitten Sisters are on the run.

Reprints

• from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune Syndicate) daily and Sunday newspaper strips from 1956-12-26 to 1957-02-17

Keywords

acrobatics; aerial photographs; bow and arrow; death trap; deer; diamonds; disguise; handcuffs; helicopter; hot dogs; ice; murder; rifle; shoplifting; ski jumping; snow; stilts; television; wrist radio

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

Dick Tracy Letters / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Shel Dorf (response)

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover. Letters from Edward Brunner (Iowa City, Ia.), John Downing (Brooklyn, N.Y.), and Dan Strickland (Brookeville, Md.).

Havoc on Hoth! (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Blackthorne Publishing; Star Wars 3-D / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)