Dick Tracy
#20
(March 1988)
Blackthorne,
1984 Series
- Price
- 6.95 USD; 9,95 CAD
- Pages
- 76
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Blackthorne Publishing Inc.
- Brand
-
Blackthorne Publishing Incorporated
- ISBN
-
0-932629-93-8
- Editing
- Shel Dorf (editor)
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Dick Tracy / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Johnny Wreath
- Synopsis
- Newspaper comic strip of Tracy carrying the toddler Johnny through a blizzard.
- Keywords
- Blizzard; snow
Indexer Notes
Design by Shelf Dorf
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Dick Tracy / illustration / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Dropping in complete exhaustion, Tracy draws the sick child close to his own body as the blizzard rages.
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Johnny Wreath
- Synopsis
- Single panel of Tracy sheltering Johnny in a blizzard.
- Keywords
- Blizzard; police; snow
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Dick Tracy / comic story / 72 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- I'm afraid you can't go in just now.
- Genre
- adventure; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Myrtle Wreath; Johnny Wreath; Pruneface; Doc; Mrs Potter; Nifty; Frizzletop; Pat Patton; rural route mailman
- Synopsis
- Compilation of daily and Sunday newspaper comic strips from January 9, 1943 through April 8, 1943. Tracy and his men capture a wounded Pruneface, killing his Nazi partner. Nifty steals his toddler son Johnny from Mrs. Potter's child-care center, but eventually Tracy and Pat find them. With traffic stopped and Johnny feverish from pneumonia, Tracy carries him for 24 hours through the blizzard to reach a hospital.
- Keywords
- Blizzard; child care; day care; espionage; home front; police; snow; spy; woman war worker; World War II
The Reuben
text article / 1 page
- Script
- Milton Caniff
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Introduction to the Reuben award
- Keywords
- Reuben award
Indexer Notes
List of Reuben winners from 1946 through 1986.
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Dick Tracy / illustration / 1 page
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Frizzletop; Johnny Wreath; Nifty; rural route mailman
- Synopsis
- Montage of Dick Tracy scenes
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
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Dick Tracy -
1.
["Dropping in complete exhaustion, Tracy draws the sick child close to his own body as the blizzard rages."]
Dick Tracy -
2.
["I'm afraid you can't go in just now."]
Dick Tracy -
3.
The Reuben
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4.
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Dick Tracy
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- Boris Ammerlaan
- Kirk House
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