Dick Tracy meets Gruesome

Gruesome, just out of jail, goes to the Hangman’s Knot saloon, where his old crime crony Melody is now playing the piano. Gruesome takes him to a plastics manufacturer. where Gruesome sniffs a nerve gas that paralyzes him. He appears to be dead and is taken to the city morgue. Dick Tracy is at headquarters speaking with college professor Dr. Tomic, a scientist who suspects someone has been following him. At the morgue, Tracy’s sidekick Pat has his back turned when Gruesome wakes up and knocks him out. At a bank where Tess Trueheart happens to be, Gruesome and Melody use the nerve gas to incapacitate the security guard. They rob the place and shoot a cop on the sidewalk before Dick Tracy arrive …

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