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5May 1948
$0.10

Dick Tracy Monthly #5

Dell · May 1948

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Series
Dick Tracy Monthly (Dell, 1948 series)
Issue
#5
Publication date
May 1948
Key date
1948-05-00
Indicia publisher
Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0Rope Rescuecover1colors: Western Publishing Production ShopDick Tracy; Junior Tracy
1Dick Tracy Reports to You: Invisible Evidencetext article2colors: Western Publishing Production ShopDick Tracy (as narrator)
2Jealousy and Murdercomic story24script: Chester Gould; pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester Gould; colors: Western Publishing Production Shop; letters: Chester GouldDick Tracy; Chief Brandon; Jean Penfield; Tess Trueheart; Pat Patton; Georgio Spaldoni; Mike (Spaldoni's gang); Mac (Spaldoni's gang); Milrey (Spaldoni's gang); Junior Tracy; Milligan (police officer); King (states-attorney); Spaldoni's mother
3The Clue was in the Cardstext story2colors: Western Publishing Production ShopDick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tom Davis (murder victim); fingerprint technician; other crime scene technicians; Dykes (Davis's valet); Mr. Kentfield
4Narcotics Traffickingcomic story6script: Bill Ely; pencils: Bill Ely; inks: Bill Ely; colors: Western Publishing Production ShopDetective Jim O'Brien; Police Commissioner Black; Tommy (drug addict); Monte (drug kingpin); nameless drug pusher; two cops
6Subscribe Now to Dick Tracy Monthlypromo (ad from the publisher)1colors: Western Publishing Production ShopDick Tracy

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