Dick Tracy Monthly #23

This November 1949 Dell issue puts the square-jawed detective front and center — literally — as Dick Tracy leans from a moving car, pistol drawn, bearing down on a bound figure sprawled in the dirt while a red truck looms nearby on a rural road. The cover promises all-new stories and pictures written and drawn specifically for this magazine, making it a genuine standalone treat rather than a reprint collection. Fans of Chester Gould's tough-talking crimefighter will want this one for the tense, wide-open countryside confrontation alone.