Dates
- Cover date
- June 1948
- Pages
- 36
Editions and covers
- Original editionSource ↗
Creators
Stories
- Dick Tracy Reports to You: No Clues · 2 pages
Dick Tracy tells us how clues that are invisible to the eye can be used to identify criminal perpetrators.
- Dick Tracy Lands Larceny Lu · 24 pages
J. Scotland Bumpstead, a renowned English detective and the other son of Georgio Spaldoni's mother, crosses the pond to visit his mother (who's now reverted to her original name of "Bumpstead") and to work with Dick Tracy. On their visit to the state pen, killer Steve the Tramp, breaks out and is shot in a gun battle with Tracy. He hides out with Larceny Lu. Lu performs the bullet-removing operations on Steve. Bumpstead is critically wounded by Lu and Steve and almost drowned in a weighted sack, prompting Mother Bumpstead to track down Lu and Steve and turn them over to the police.
- Tough Under Torture · 2 pages
Three thugs torture Tracy for information on a big diamond shipment.
- Something Stinks in the Sewers · The Iron Man · 6 pages
O'Brien smells a rat when he sees Sal Antonelli, an ex-con who should be working as a truck driver, functioning as a sewer worker in tunnels that run under a bank.