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1. Chester Gould creates a new type of criminal in late 1934 in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. As we catch up on the penniless Mary Steele, we find she has taken a cleaning job in a large house in the country. Boris Arson and his gang are planning a huge crime, which she overhears. Eventually she steals some of the plans. What is the crime Arson is planning?
2. Boris Arson realizes he has to leave the house because Mary Steele has stolen some of his plans. But first he sets a trap so no clues will be found in the house. There have already been many firsts in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, including x-rays, bullet proof vests and lie detectors. Here we find Arson using a device unknown to most readers in 1934 so that the first person entering the house will set off explosives. What is the device he uses?
3. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Tracy and Pat spy on the underground nitroglycerine factory where the nitro is being stolen for Boris Arson's robbery. But the spies are being spied upon, and Pat Patton and Dick Tracy are held up and forced to help load the nitro onto an airplane. Tracy is chained to a basement wall in their hideout, while Pat scuffles with B-2 and manages to get on board the plane before it takes off. How does he get the pilot to land safely?
4. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, during the last days of 1934, we find Boris Arson making a jailbreak and reuniting with the remainder of his old gang. He immediately orders them to kill Dick Tracy. B-6 is looking for Tracy when he spots someone else, who he instantly kidnaps. Who is it?
5. In "Dick Tracy", Tracy breaks into the room with Boris Arson and his gang, and is pushed, gun firing, into a closet and locked in. A bottle filled with chloroform falls and breaks, creating another deathtrap for the detective. How does he survive the fumes until the police arrive?
6. In "Dick Tracy", Junior Tracy becomes suspicious of Mary Steele, realizing he has saw her somewhere before. Where does he find a picture of her?
7. We now get into the jail cell with Boris Arson in the "Dick Tracy" comic strip. His rather feminine looking lawyer visits him in his cell. What realtionship is he to Boris?
8. Zora Arson spends a month in "Dick Tracy" trying without success to kill Mary Steele. At one point she has to take a reed from the edge of a pond, steal a kids toy boat to which she attaches the reed, and with a rock for weight, walk under water across the pond breathing through the reed to escape Tracy. Now she devises an escape plan for Boris. Upon her instructions, he whittles a potato into the shape of a gun, then intentionally burns himself. What does he ask police for to help heal his wound?
9. Boris and Zora Arson manage to skip town by bribing an indian chief from Oklahoma to come get them from the city. Dick Tracy and Pat Patton, however, get on their trail eventually teaming with Chief Yellowpony in the chase. Zora knows an outlaw living in the hills, Cutie Diamond. He has a cave hideout near his house, complete with starving wildcats for guards. Tracy, however, knows how to flush them out. With what does he get them out of the cave?
10. The end of the Boris Arson story in "Dick Tracy" sees a shootout between Zora Arson, Cutie Diamond, Dick Tracy, Pat Patton and Chief Yellowpony. Boris Arson is hit and turns yellow, running back into the cave. Zora is killed, but Cutie Diamond makes it to his house, though hit several times. From what does he die?
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