Dick Tracy Monthly #42
Illustrated Publications
Australia
- Published
- October 1953
- Page count
- 32
- Cover price
- 1/- [0-1-0 AUP]
- Colour
- Black & white
- Size
- Standard size
- Interior paper
- Newsprint
- Cover stock
- Matte colour
- Binding
- Saddle-stitched
- Format
- Comic series
- Branding
-
None
Credits
- Art
- Jayar Studios, artist [credited]
Issue contents
Cover
Untitled
(Dick Tracy)
Cover, 1 page
1"Quantico, Virginia is only a dot on the map"
Featuring
- Feature
- Your F.B.I.
- Genre
- Non-fiction; crime; history
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- Rudy Palais , penciller
- Paul Reinman , inker
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Leon Harvey, original editor [credited]
Reprint history
- First print
-
Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #54 (August 1952) — Untitled [Quantico, Virginia is only a spot on the map.]
Synopsis
A brief account of the activities that occur at FBI training headquarters.
Notes
The feature has been retitled from 'Your' to 'The'.
2Featuring
- Feature
- Dick Tracy
- Genre
- Adventure; drama; Humour; crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Dick Tracy; Sam Catchem; Mugg; Pear-Shape; Jim Pistol
Credits
- Writing
- Chester Gould, scripter
- Art
- Joe Simon, line art (splash panel)
- Chester Gould, line art
- Text
- Chester Gould, letterer
- Editing
- Leon Harvey, original editor [credited]
Reprint history
- First print
-
Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #60 (February 1953) — Dick Tracy and the Case of the Million-Dollar Murder
Synopsis
Tracy and Sam use Mugg to help them locate his former master's jewels. Meanwhile, Pear-Shape is also still searching for the jewels while masquerading behind the publishing business. Sam masquerades as an over-weight woman to gain evidence against Pear-Shape. Sam's disguise is discovered, and Pear-Shape rolls him up in wire. Tracy rescues Sam, and Mugg chases Pear-Shape, jumps on his car and clings there until Pear-Shape drives into the woods and uses a loaw-hanging branch to scrape the dog off the car. Pear-Shape hides in Jim Pistol's spa. The chase with Pear-Shape's death in a zoo.
3"Ah, what is so rare as a day in… well, well--what have we here?"
Featuring
- Feature
- Girl Friday
- Genre
- Crime; detective-mystery
- Characters
- Myra Martin; Glenn Wilson; Inspector Kelly
Credits
- Writing
- , scripter
- Art
- , line art
- Text
- , letterer
- Editing
- Leon Harvey, original editor [credited]
Reprint history
- First print
-
Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series) #60 (February 1953) — "Ah, what is so rare as a day in..."
Synopsis
Myra helps solve a murder in the park.
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Indicia
Drawn and printed in Australia by Jayar Studios and Sungravure Ltd. For the publishers "Illustrated Publications," 149 Castlereagh St., Sydney--Sole Australian Distributors, Consolidated Press Ltd. All States. Contents copyright. All rights reserved.