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51May 1952
$0.10

Dick Tracy #51

Harvey · May 1952 · on sale 1952-03-08

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Identification plate

Series
Dick Tracy (Harvey, 1950 series)
Issue
#51
Publication date
May 1952
Key date
1952-05-00
On-sale date
1952-03-08
Indicia publisher
Harvey Publications Inc.
Price
$0.10
Pages
36

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Contents

SeqStoryTypePagesCreditsCharacters
0High-Tension Hijackerscover1pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester GouldDick Tracy
2The Case of the High-Tension Hijackerscomic story7script: Joe Simon, Chester Gould; pencils: Joe Simon, Chester Gould; inks: Joe Simon, Chester Gould; letters: Chester GouldDick Tracy
4The Heat's On!comic story6script: Chester Gould; pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester Gould; letters: Chester GouldDick Tracy
6Murder Is Like a Disease - It Spreads!promo (ad from the publisher)1pencils: Joe Simon; inks: Joe SimonDick Tracy
7We Dare You to Readpromo (ad from the publisher)1letters: Ben Oda
9Innocent Victims!comic story3script: Chester Gould; pencils: Chester Gould; inks: Chester Gould; letters: Chester GouldDick Tracy
10Sugar-Coated Deathtext story1letters: typesetDetective Tom Brandon; Detective Jeff Conlon; Carla Williams
11Beware of These Racketscomic story1pencils: Rudy Palais; inks: Rudy Palais
12The Case of the Closed Sashcomic story2script: Bob Powell; pencils: Bob Powell; inks: Bob Powell; letters: Marty EppJackie Page; Lt. Gil Mason; Oswald Hume
13The Clue in the Diarytext story0.9letters: typeset
14Folks! My new issue of Kerry Drake Detective Cases is Now on Sale!promo (ad from the publisher)0.1Kerry Drake
15Your F. B. I.comic story1pencils: Rudy Palais; inks: Rocke Mastroserio
16A Bernard Barnet Minit Mysterycomic story2pencils: Arthur Peddy; inks: John BelfiBernard Barnet; Bertha Barnet
17The famous kidnapper of the Lindbergh baby was...activity1pencils: Rudy Palais; inks: Rudy Palais

Plus 8 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

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Series context

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