Dick Tracy Monthly #13

Dick Tracy Monthly brings the hard-boiled detective action of Chester Gould's strip straight to the newsstands in this January 1949 Dell issue. The cover captures a tense confrontation: Tracy, unmistakable in his yellow trenchcoat and green snap-brim hat, grabs a bald, open-mouthed suspect by the wrist as a pistol drops from the man's grip — a young red-clad woman looking on in alarm from a nearby chair. At a dime a copy, this was sharp, no-nonsense crime comics entertainment delivered with Gould's clean, punchy style.