Officer Murphy (Brow Storyline)

Officer Murphy (Brow Storyline)
First Appearance:	May 27th, 1944
Created By:	Chester Gould
Can Be Found:	The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy The Dick Tracy Casebook The Complete Dick Tracy Vol. 9

Character BiographyEdit

Officer Murphy was selected to escort the Summer Sisters to a safe house after they escaped from the Brow. While taking a taxi from the police station, they were intercepted by the Brow. The Brow killed the driver and then rammed the taxi with his car, knocking it off a bridge into a lagoon.

Murphy managed to escape the sinking car, but the Summer Sisters drowned despite his efforts to get help. Tracy recovered the car and the victims.

NotesEdit

• Several police officers called "Murphy" have appeared in the strip. A light-haired Murphy was shot and apparently killed during the Flattop storyline, and other Murphys appeared in the stories of Pear-Shape, Dewdrop, and Haf-and-Haf. They are not necessarily meant to be the same man.