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1. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Tracy and Pat Patton are filing fingerprint records late at night. Tracy stays until 3:00 AM and leaves in a driving rainstorm. Walking to a nearby street car station, he is aware of a large woman following him. He hears something swish above his head and is rather quickly taken away unconscious by the woman. What weapon did she use to subdue Tracy?
2. Chester Gould kept his "Dick Tracy" readers riveted to the strip on a daily basis. He didn't reveal who the large woman who held Tracy hostage was for weeks, while she fed Tracy (and the readers) small tidbits of information. When she mentioned her 'late' husband, Tracy found the woman had a picture of him. Where was the picture?
3. The police department is frantic when Dick Tracy goes missing. Nobody can understand where the great detective could have gone. True to the "Dick Tracy" comic's form, a clue turns up. A boy brings an item he found a few blocks away into headquarters. It has Dick Tracy's name on it, and the boy wishes to meet Tracy. What did he find?
4. In "Dick Tracy", Mrs. Pruneface finally opens her locket and shows Tracy the picture of her husband. After much discussion on methods of killing Tracy, she and her servant Emil have decided. Emil sharpens a bolt to a point and drives it through a long board. Tracy is chained to the floor by his neck, ankles and wrists. The point of the bolt is suspended directly above his heart, with a refrigerator on the board for weight. What does Mrs. Pruneface depend on to slowly drive the spike through Tracy's heart?
5. In the "Dick Tracy" comic's most sadistic death trap, we find Tracy chained to the floor by his neck, wrists and ankles. Directly above his heart is a long sharp spike driven through a board, which has a refrigerator resting atop it for weight. The board sets on two ice blocks which are slowly melting and moving the spike closer to his body. But as Tracy looks around he notices something which gives him a ray of hope. What did he notice?
6. On hearing Dick Tracy survived her attempt to kill him, Mrs. Pruneface now has to hide. Much like other "Dick Tracy" criminals such as Karpse and Pruneface, she decides to hide in plain sight, although she sends Emil out for makeup. She sees an ad for a job which she once held in 'the old country'. What job was it?
7. In Chester Gould's "Dick Tracy" comic, Mrs. Pruneface goes off to work and leaves her servant, Emil, behind with orders not to leave the apartment. He quickly becomes bored and searches her grip. Inside he finds the whip she used to subdue Tracy. Playing with it, he drops it out the window--and into the hands of a policeman. When she returns from her job and finds it gone, what does Mrs. Pruneface do to Emil?
8. In the "Dick Tracy" comic we find the Mayor offering the disguised Mrs. Pruneface, who goes by the name Marie, a job at his house. It turns out her favorite dish and his are the same. What taste do they share?
9. In the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, Mrs. Pruneface is hiding out as a cook in the Mayor's house. His two daughters are drinking and carousing late one night with some young men when an accident occurs. They are carrying Mrs. Pruneface on their shoulders while singing and trip. One of the boys named Chuck and Mrs. Pruneface fall. Where did they fall?
10. Dick Tracy has pieced together where Mrs. Pruneface has been hiding and calls at the Mayor's house. There is confusion when he finds the mayor furious about the body in the pool and his daughters returning home as the sun comes up. As Tracy and Patton finally prepare to enter the kitchen to arrest Mrs. Pruneface, shots ring out. They find Mrs. Pruneface dead on the floor. Who killed her?
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