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| Publication | [January] 1947 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 |
| Notes | Cover is montage of panels from the comic. |
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| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy |
| Notes | Cover is montage of panels from the comic. |
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| Comic Story | Crime, Inc. (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tracy is on the trail of Krome, an assassin who uses modified children's toys to kill his victims. Krome's girlfriend Kitty does not approve of his criminal activities. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome |
| Notes | Story begins on inside front cover in black, red, and white. |
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| Comic Story | Kitty (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Krome's girlfriend Kitty rescues him from Tracy, but plans to turn him in to the police. At their apartment, Krome gets the upper hand and puts Kitty in a death trap. He then goes on the run in a snowstorm, followed by Tracy. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome |
| Notes | Story continues from previous sequence. |
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| Comic Story | Lost in a Blizzard (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Krome makes his way through the blizzard to a doctor's office, where his arm has to be amputated because of gangrene from a bullet wound. Tracy and Patton eventually make it to the same doctor, who has sent Krome on a snowplow back to the city. Tracy arrests the doctor, suspecting him of involvement with Crime, Inc. He places the doctor in the custody of the local constable. Tracy and Patton pursue the snowplow. Krome forces the snowplow driver to drive out on the river ice, which gives way and the snowplow plunges through the ice. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome |
| Notes | Story continues from previous sequence. |
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| Comic Story | Selbert the Killer (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tracy and Patton rescue the snowplow driver, but Krome freezes to death hiding in a snow drift. Meanwhile the doctor who amputated Krome's arm bribes the constable to help him escape, but Tracy and Patton return in time to turn the pair over to the state's attorney. Back in the city a brute named Selbert escapes from an insane asylum and kills wealthy Angus DePool. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Krome; Selbert; Mrs. DePool |
| Notes | Story continues from previous sequence. |
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| Comic Story | Selbert hides in Mrs. DePool's House (8 pages) |
| Synopsis | Mrs. DePool, Selbert’s aunt, hides Selbert in a cistern in the basement of her mansion. Although Selbert murdered her husband, Mrs. DePool sympathizes with him. To gain control over Selbert’s father’s money, Mr. DePool had framed Selbert and gotten him sentenced to 22 years in an insane asylum. Mrs. DePool’s granddaughter suspects there is someone hiding in the house, as does Tracy. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Selbert; Mrs. DePool |
| Notes | Story continues from previous sequence. |
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| Comic Story | Poisoned Doorbell (11 pages) |
| Synopsis | Selbert kidnaps Myrna, Mrs. DePool's granddaughter, and imprisons her in the basement cistern. Mrs. DePool then shoots Selbert, though not fatally, and rigs a poisoned doorbell to get Tracy. However, Myrna's fiancé is the one who rings the bell and gets the poison. Selbert clubs Tracy when he comes to investigate and he is tossed in the cistern. Mrs. DePool and Selbert prepare to leave, but Selbert presses Mrs. DePool's hand on the poisoned doorbell, grabs a chest of cash, and flees after setting the house on fire. |
| Content | Genre: Detective-mystery | Characters: Dick Tracy; Pat Patton; Selbert; Mrs. DePool; Tess Truehart |
| Notes | Story continues from previous sequence. Story continues on inside back cover in black, red, and white and concludes on back cover in color. |
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