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1. At the beginning of 1934 we are introduced to a very pretty girl in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. She is writing a book about the underworld and through her lawyer, Spaldoni, arranges $20,000 in bail money for Jimmy White. In return she expects him to tell all about his connections. Knowing Chester Gould frequently names his characters according to their looks or occupation, what is this wanna-be writers name?
2. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, neither Spaldoni or Jimmy White work with the good looking lady writer, mostly because Big Boy is the subject of her book. Surprisingly, she is the cause of a police raid catching Big Boy, who orders her death. Jimmy White, Spaldoni and another confederate get tickets out of the country, but White accosts the lady in her convertible. In the ensuing fight, the car swerves off the road and creates a huge fireball. What does it crash into?
3. In the comic strip "Dick Tracy", the pretty lady writer reappears submitting columns for the local newspaper. Spaldoni arranges notes to be given to her and Tess Trueheart, making each jealous of the other. Eventually they get in a screaming, biting fight, and we see Spaldoni behind a curtain with a gun. The police arrive just as a shot goes off. Who is killed by the shot?
4. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Spaldoni gives his confession and then dies just before his mother comes in. She reveals she has another son, a crime fighter in Europe who will be there shortly. He is obviously British and has a coat full of guns. What is this sleuth's fitting (and strange) name?
5. We now return to prison life in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. Steve the Tramp is planning another escape, which he pulls off just as Tracy and Scotty arrive. In the following shootout, Steve escapes, but is severely wounded, dragging himself to a recent parolee's door. Larceny Lu takes him in, and calls Doc Hump to do surgery. There is trickery galore as Hump tries to get to Lu's hideout, involving smoke bombs, stickups and disguises. Who is eventually forced to do the surgery on Steve before he dies?
6. After Steve the Tramp heals in "Dick Tracy", he finds Scotty and gives him a terrible beating, leaving him immobile for weeks. Scotty's mother, Edna, bursts in on Steve and Lu with a gun, raining lead on them. Both survive, but Larceny Lu escapes. Back in the prison hospital, Steve finds he has lost something valuable. What did he lose?
7. Before Larceny Lu left Steve the Tramp for dead, he told her a secret, which he later regretted in the comic strip "Dick Tracy". Lu and her henchman, Mortimer, headed for California to find a woman who worked in a sandwitch stand called "The Coffee Pot". What was the building shaped like?
8. Mary Steele lost her nerve when trying to take Junior from Dick Tracy in the comic strip, even getting a whipping at one point for her weakness. She knew Junior was better off with Tracy than her. Eventually Tracy tracked her down, and she confided in him who she was. He promised not to tell Junior. Pat Patton becomes a hero because of his investigation of a pair of pants he found in Lu's old room. Just as Chief Brandon and Dick Tracy arrive at an amusement park and get stuck up by Lu and Mortimer, Pat shoots the gun out of her hand from a good vantage point. Where was he?
9. In late October, 1934, we find Mary Steele leaving town in "Dick Tracy". She is nearly penniless, but stops to buy one thing for Junior before she goes. What does she buy?
10. November 1934 in "Dick Tracy" sees Doc Hump returning to his family's old estate alone. He lures the former butler back, and immediately puts him in shackles. Turns out he has perfected a rabies serum to shoot his dogs with, and is about to test it. Dick and Junior Tracy arrive in the nick of time and Hump retreats to his dungeon. They are held fast with a fishing net lined with hooks which is dropped over them. As he starts to shoot the dog with the serum, he loses his hold on the leash. What does the dog do?
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