Dick Tracy #50
In "The Killer Who Returned from the Dead!", Dick Tracy faces a chilling return from the past when a fingerprint at a crime scene points to Shoulders—thought to be dead—now living under a new identity. With Joe Simon’s sharp, dynamic art and Chester Gould’s relentless storytelling, the case unfolds through a tense web of deception, from a hidden brush sample case to a desperate flight ending in an antique store’s shadowed refuge. Cover by Joe Simon captures the dread of a man haunted by his past, even as he tries to vanish.
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A fingerprint at a crime scene reveals that Shoulders, one of Tracy's previous foes, is still alive. Shoulders has married someone who knows nothing of his previous life. Shoulders kills his partner and then the fence who was to buy stolen diamonds from him. When his step-daughter locks herself in his brush sample case, Tracy and Pat are tipped off by the brush company when they are contacted for a key. Shoulders sees the police cars in front of his house and flees, only to have an accident in his car. He takes shelter in an antique store, where the owner helps him.
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