Dick Tracy: Valentine's Day Special #[nn]
In "Hollywood Babylon," Dick Tracy dives into a chilling mystery when a series of missing persons turn up in a single alley, arranged in a strange radial pattern around a faded, cartoony Valentine's Day card. Written by Steve Orlando and illustrated by Brent Schoonover, with colors by Mark Englert and letters by Jim Campbell, the story takes a surreal turn when the card pulls Tracy into a dream-state where love and memory warp into something far darker. The cover, by Geraldo Borges, captures the eerie allure of the card’s strange power.
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Tracy investigates multiple missing persons and finds them in a single alley barely alive and conscious. Their bodies are laid out on the concrete in a "radial pattern" centered around an old, cartoony-type Valentine's Day card. As Tracy approaches the card, a force emanating from it puts him into a comatose dream-state in which he falls in love with Tess Trueheart and quickly skips ahead to the couple's happy life in retirement and old age... then takes an unexpectedly horrific turn.
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