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Cover: Joe Simon & Joe Simon
Dick Tracy #42
“Murder by Mail”
writer Chester Gould · artist Chester Gould · inker Chester Gould · letterer Chester Gould · cover Joe SimonJoe Simon
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writer Chester Gould
artist Chester Gould
inker Chester Gould
letterer Chester Gould
cover pencils Joe Simon
cover inks Joe Simon
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Tracy captures Nilon and Rod and jails them while evidence against them is processed. Tracy handcuffs Nilon and Rod together and takes them to the spot where their aunt's mail-order groom is buried. Not wanting to go the electric chair, Rod drags Nilon into the path of an oncoming milk truck, which hits them and kills them both.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).