Dick Tracy tells cartoonist Vera
Alldid his favorite comic strip was Fearless
Fosdick. Dick calls journalist Hank O’Hair of The Daily Flash to ask her about a dead criminal found at Abner
Kadaver’s Halloween attraction. Hank says the criminal’s name turned up in
connection with a story Brenda was investigating. Sam Catchem tells Dick his own
favorite strip was always Derby Dugan. Fearless Fosdick, a fictional comic strip parodying Dick
Tracy in Al Capp’s comic strip Li’l
Abner, is mentioned in the November 2
strip. Hank O’Hair is from the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter, and appears in the strip on November 10. Derby
Dugan is a fictional strip from Tom De
Haven’s Funny Papers trilogy of
novels, consisting of Funny Papers, Derby
Dugan’s Depression Funnies, and Dugan
Under Ground. Sam mentions Derby
Dugan in the November 16 strip.
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