the song tennessee flattop box is about kirk lewis talley.
the song tennessee flattop box is about kirk lewis talley.
who is the song tennessee flattop box about?
kirk lewis talley
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in a 1986 storyline, reporter wendy wichel approaches dick tracy with new information concerning flattop and an incident in world war ii which was kept secret and in which tracy was involved. before flattop encountered tracy in 1944, flattop was hired by the nazi spy boche, a.k.a. pruneface, to kidnap fbi agent jim trailer, a close friend of dick tracy's, and a scientist trailer and tracy were protecting: professor roloc bard. flattop's instructions were to kill trailer and hand the professor over to pruneface. bard warned flattop that he will be shipped overseas to make deadly weapons for the axis cause, which caused flattop to double-cross pruneface and auction bard and trailer off to the highest bidder. authorities in washington, dc, ostensibly participating in the auction, authorized tracy to negotiate while they traced flattop's call). tracy and his partner, pat patton, broke into flattop's hideout and freed trailer while flattop escaped with the professor. flattop tied bard up in the same replica of the santa maria where he would later drown. flattop's last appearance in this storyline was his meeting with pruneface to collect his $50,000 and tell him where to find bard. pruneface swore that he would kill flattop if he ever dared to betray him again.
flattop (dick tracy villain)