Dick Tracy Monthly/Weekly (1986) #4

Black Pearl. Story, art and cover by Chester Gould.

Blackthorne Publishing reprints the original comic-strip adventures of legendary tough cop Dick Tracy and his rogues gallery of freakish enemies. This issue reprints strips from September-October 1940. A bomb scare leads Pat and Tracy to Black Pearl Erad, weapons manufacturer and black-market dealer. When she gets wind of their pursuit, Pearl traps them in a dangerous testing ground for war machines.

32 pages, B&W. Cover price $2.00. (Note: stock image, not a scan)