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Cover: Chester Gould

Dick Tracy #52

Jun 1952 · Harvey · 0.10 USD
“Dick Tracy and the Case of the Pipe-Stem Killer”
writer, artist, inker Joe Simon · writer, artist, inker, letterer Chester Gould · cover Chester Gould

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writer, artist, inker Joe Simon
writer, artist, inker, letterer Chester Gould
cover pencils, inks Chester Gould

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After hiding the body her driver, Mrs. Volts drives the truck to her nephew's house and demands that he take her back to B. O. Plenty's place and help her find her dog. When B. O. refuses to help, she threatens to shoot him with her pistol. Gravel Gertie shoots Mrs. Volts with a shotgun. She leaves and returns on her own in the truck. She forgets to set the brake, and the truck crashes into the Plenty's house and sets it afire. Returning to her nephews, she hides under the sink, unaware of a faulty gas pipe. She dies from a gas leak, and her nephew buries her in a gold course sand trap.

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