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Issue Details

Issue #C-40
Published December 1975-January 1976
Cover Price 1.00 USD
Pages 68
Editing E. Nelson Bridwell

Cover Details

Characters Dick Tracy; Brain; Prune Face; Bribery; Shaky; Brow; Johnny Scorn; Flattop; Pouch
Genre detective

1 page Dick Tracy story "A proposal is interrupted by a holdup -"

Characters Dick Tracy; Tess Truehart; Stooge Viller; The Purple-Cross Gang; Gravel Gertie; B. O. Plenty; the Mole; Pruneface; Breathless Mahoney; Mumbles; Flattop, Sr.; Rughead; Bonnie Braids
Genre detective
Pencils Chester Gould
Notes Inside front cover

1 page Dick Tracy illustration "During World War II, there were shortages of food, gasoline, and other commodities."

Characters Dick Tracy; Flattop
Genre detective

59 page Dick Tracy story "It's that war hero! Good luck, boy!"

Characters Dick Tracy; Flattop; Tess Truehart; Vitamin Flintheart
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Reprinted Syndicated strips from December 21, 1943 - May 17, 1944

2 page Dick Tracy illustration "Dick Tracy's Rogue's Gallery"

Characters Pouch; Posie; Ugly Christine; Jonny Scorn; Itchy Oliver; Spots; Breathless Mohoney; 88 Keys; Shoulders; Piggy; Scorpio; The Brow; Prune Face; Mrs. Pruneface; Jerome Trohs; Mama; Mole; Shakey; Bribery;B.B. Eyes;Stooge Viller;Mumbles;Flattop;Steve the Tramp
Genre detective
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould

1 page Dick Tracy text article "Dick Tracy Talks to Uncle Sam"

Characters Dick Tracy
Genre detective
Notes Anti-crime gadgets

1 page Dick Tracy text article "Crimestoppers Textbook"

Genre detective
Notes Crime and anti-crime techniques

1 page Dick Tracy biography (nonfictional) "Chester Gould Detective of the Drawing Board"

Characters Chester Gould
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Colors black & white
Notes ibc

1 page Dick Tracy illustration

Characters Dick Tracy; Chief Patton; Lizz; Junior; Sam Catchem; Gravel Gertie; B. O. Plenty; Diet Smith
Genre detective
Script Chester Gould
Pencils Chester Gould
Inks Chester Gould
Colors black & white
Notes back cover