Best Place to Sell Dick Tracy #112

Publisher: Harvey, 1957

About Dick Tracy #112

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COVER DETAILS

Title: Case of the Atomic Flash

Characters: Dick Tracy; Diet Smith

Pencils: Joe Simon [as Chester Gould]

Inks: Joe Simon [as Chester Gould]

Notes: Art credit based on Joe Simon's comments in his book The Comic Book Makers. Cover is a variation of the cover of Dick Tracy Comics Monthly #40.

STORY DETAILS

(4 Stories)

Title: The Case of the Atomic Flash

Characters: Dick Tracy; Diet Smith; B. O. Plenty; Chief Brandon; Pat Patton; Irma; Brilliant

Synopsis: While Diet Smith tries to clear himself of murder charges, employees at his Detroit plant work on a scheme to steal one of Smith's atomic inventions. Tracy receives his first wrist radio. Irma. shoots Diet Smith while he is in his bathtub and then takes her own life. Smith has surgery and survives. He narrowly escapes death a second time when Irma's son, Brilliant, tries to shoot him in the hospital.

Pages: 21.500

Script: Chester Gould

Pencils: Chester Gould

Inks: Chester Gould

Letters: Chester Gould

Notes: Original title of this story is "The Case of the Atomic Killers." The following changes were made to this reprint due to Comics Code Authority restrictions: Page 1, panels 8, 9: Wire opaqued on black line but color still shows where wires were Page 2, panels 2, 3, 4, 6: Wires removed to take away inference that victim was electrocuted Page 18, panel 5: Bullets are opaqued, but because of color plate, their path is still visible. Diet Smith's is visible as a white space, even the outline was deleted from the black plate. Page 18, panel 7: The part of the panel showing Irma shooting herself in the head has been replaced with a narrow panel that has "BANG" running vertically. Page 18, panel 10: "The water's bloody!" has been removed from the first word balloon. Second balloon changed from "That's blood on my hands!" to "He's been shot!" Page 19, panel 2: Irma's body outline has been removed, but the color still prints. Page 19, bottom caption: Changed from :Read the July issue of Dick Tracy" to "Turn the page quickly." Page 20, panel 1: "Dick Tracy" logo changed to a descriptive caption.

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