Large Feature Comic #4 - First Appearance of Pat Patton, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Large Feature Comic (Dell, 1939 series)
Issue: #4
Publication date: 1939
Key date: 1939
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Company Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 76

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (reprint) of Pat Patton - the earliest appearance on record is a reprinted story; the original printing may be indexed elsewhere and predate this.

First appearance (reprint) of Dick Tracy Jr. - the earliest appearance on record is a reprinted story; the original printing may be indexed elsewhere and predate this.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Dick Tracy Gets His Man	cover	1
1	Dick Tracy Gets His Man	comic story	72	script: Chester Gould; pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester Gould	Pat Patton First, Dick Tracy, Dick Tracy Jr. First
2	Dick Tracy Gets His Man	illustration	1

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Dick Tracy Gets His Man #[nn]	1982	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #34 of 30#5 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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