Four Color #215
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Sparkle Plenty" is a quirky 1949 tale from Chester Gould, the creator of Dick Tracy, who wrote, drew, and inked this Four Color adventure. When Gravel Gertie gives birth to Sparkle Plenty, the family’s sudden fame brings a $3,000 payout from Glance magazine—only for the money to vanish, end up in Dick Tracy’s hands, and spark a chain of odd events. Months later, a stolen cargo of electrical supplies leads to a tense standoff on B.O. Plenty’s land, and a surprising reunion with a lost dog that’s now Sparkle’s pet. Cover by Chester Gould.
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After the birth of Sparkle Plenty to Gravel Gertie, B.O. Plenty's family gets $3,000 for letting "Glance" magazine do a feature on Sparkle. B.O. buries the money under a post, it gets lost, then is found by Dick Tracy. The story skips ahead six months to Mrs. Volts and her chauffeur dumping stolen electrical supplies on B.O.'s land. They are caught by B.O. but are let go when they pay him $20. After hiding in the North Woods, Mrs. Volts returns to the Plenty's house looking for her dog, which has become Sparkle's pet.
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