Dick Tracy Monthly #17

A tense roadside scene grips the cover of this 1949 Dell issue, showing a bound and helpless figure in the back seat of a speeding red car while a cigar-chomping heavy and a gunman keep watch — with a gas truck looming ominously in the background. Tracy himself appears in portrait at the top corner, jaw set and ready for action, hinting at the dangerous confrontation ahead in "Tracy in Homeville." For fans of hard-boiled crime drama rendered in bold, vivid color, this ten-cent monthly delivers exactly the kind of high-stakes atmosphere that made Dick Tracy a staple of American comics.