Issue | #34 |
Published | January 1944 |
Cover Price | 0.10 USD |
Pages | 60 |
Editing | ? |
Notes | Indicia title is "DICK TRACY, No. 34." No code number. Copyright 1939 by Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate, Inc.. Copyright 1940 by the Chicago Tribune. |
Characters | Dick Tracy |
Genre | detective |
Characters | Tess Truehart; John Lavir |
Synopsis | Tess wants to go into the dog kennel business with John Lavir. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Notes | Inside front cover; black, red, and white. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; John Lavir; Dirks; Chief Brandon; Nat, the Fur King |
Synopsis | John Lavir blackmails Tess into helping him with his stolen dog racket. She and Lavir get into a scuffle and the police find Lavir with his throat cut and charge Tess. Tracy finds evidence that clears Tess. A car sideswipes Tracy's police car and after a chase the police find that it was hauling stolen furs. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Notes | Story is highly edited. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Fred Marken; Nat, the Fur King; Stooge Viller; Munny |
Synopsis | Tracy and Pat try to prevent the hijacking of a truckload of furs, but get caught in a fiery crash. Tracy gets Fred Marken to help set up a trap for the fur thieves. Later Stooge Viller is released from prison and gets a $1,000 stake from his old gang to start operations again. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Letters | Chester Gould |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1938 and 1939 |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Jim Epod; Iggie |
Synopsis | Stooge Viller gets $55,000 from a safe-deposit box and goes into business with "The Professor" manufacturing small items that would be useful for criminals. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Letters | Chester Gould |
Notes | Code number "S.C. #60" for Super Comics #60 is at bottom of first page. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939; from Super Comics (Whitman, 1938 series) #60 [comic book adaptation] |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; The Professor; Tess Truehart; Binnie Viller |
Synopsis | Tracy finds The Professor's workshop, but is captured by Stooge Viller. Viller moves the shop, sets the old place on fire, and leaves Tracy hanging by a rope in an abandoned well in the country. Viller has his gang kidnap his daughter, who is living with her grandmother, and bring her to see him. Tracy escapes from the well, where he is found by Tess Truehart and a group of Girl Scouts on an outing. Viller decides to leave town and take his daughter with him. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Letters | Chester Gould |
Notes | Code number "SC 61" for Super Comics #61 is at the bottom of the first page. Apparently a combined and condensed version of the episodes in Super Comics #61 and #62. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune-N.Y. News Syndicate) newspaper strips from 1939 and 1940; from Super Comics (Whitman, 1938 series) #61 [comic book adaptation]; from Super Comics (Whitman, 1938 series) #62 [comic book adaptation] |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Chief Brandon; Stooge Viller; Binnie Viller; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Toby Townley |
Synopsis | After being accidentally shot by his daughter, Stooge Viller tries to escape by swimming across a river, but drowns. Tracy finds a baby that was left in a wardrobe case in a department store and tries to find his parents. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Notes | Code number "63-458" for Super Comics #63 is at the bottom of the first page. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940; from Super Comics (Whitman, 1938 series) #63 [comic book adaptation] |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Tess Truehart; Kress Kroywen; Toby Townley |
Synopsis | The baby's grandfather snatches the baby from the police station and takes it to his laboratory where he injects it with tropic sleep germs. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940 |
Characters | Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Kress Krowyen; Toby Townley; Junior |
Synopsis | Tracy tracks the baby's grandfather to his lab and in a fight, the old man hits his head and dies and the only beaker of tropic serum is spilled. Tracy takes the baby to the hospital only to find that there is no cure for tropic sleep. Tracy and Patton ransack the old man's study and find the formula for the secret serum to cure the disease. |
Genre | detective |
Script | Chester Gould |
Pencils | Chester Gould |
Inks | Chester Gould |
Notes | Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on the back cover in color. |
Reprinted | from Dick Tracy (Chicago Tribune) newspaper strips from 1940 |