History ComicBook / MsTree

* BattleButler: Mr Hand was officially employed Mike, Jr.'s tutor. However, Mr Hand is also a former SAS trooper and ex-mercenary. Michael hired him because he could double as Mike, Jr.'s bodyguard; a function he performed frequently throughout the series.

* BrokenPedestal: Dan Green worshipped his older brother Victor who went MIA during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar. Dan ultimately undertook a mission to Vietnam attempting to locate his brother's body, only to discover that Victor was still alive and living as a crimelord.

* GroinAttack: A favourite tactic of Ms. Tree's.

* HardboiledDetective: a rare female version.
* HaveIMentionedIAmGay: [[JustifiedTrope justified]] because that character has turned celibate.

* RealNameAsAnAlias: In the "Prisoner in Cell Block Hell" arc, Michael Tree is booked into jail as 'Michelle Friday' to protect from possible reprisals while she is being held. Michelle is the feminised version of her actual given name and Friday is her maiden name.

* BrokenPedestal: Dan Green worshipped his older brother Victor who went MIA during TheVietnamWar. Dan ultimately undertook a mission to Vietnam attempting to locate his brother's body, only to discover that Victor was still alive and living as a crimelord.

* TheVietnamWar: Mike Sr., Roger and Dan's brother Victor all served in the same unit in Vietnam. In "To Live and Die and Vietnam", Michael, Roger and Dan travel to Vietnam in search of Victor's remains.

* {{Badass}}

* HollywoodSatanism: In "The Devil's Punchbowl", Tree investigated a murdered girl who joined a satanic church and was found dead with a inverted pentagram on her body. She was predisposed to suspect the church of course, but her findings with a freelance reporter who met up with her about this case showed her how many allegations about satanists causing trouble are often overblown. In the end, Tree discovered the girl's murderer was actually an insane Christian fanatic who was posing as a local anti-Satanist activist to cover-up his crimes.

''Ms. Tree'' was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, ''{{Road to Perdition}}''. Terry Beatty was the series' artist. The character first appeared in ''Eclipse Magazine'' #1 (May, 1981), the debut publication of Eclipse Enterprises. Subsequent appearances in anthology comics were deemed successful enough. Resulting in the ongoing series ''Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures'', later shortened to ''Ms. Tree''. While there were a couple of changes in publisher, said series lasted for 50 issues (February, 1983-July, 1989). The character was then revived in ''Ms. Tree Quarterly'' by DCComics, which run for 10 issues (Summer, 1990- Spring, 1993). The paperback novel ''Deadly Beloved'' followed in 2007. The character hasn't seen recent use in her original medium.

* RealNameAlias: In the "Prisoner in Cell Block Hell" arc, Michael Tree is booked into jail as 'Michelle Friday' to protect from possible reprisals while she is being held. Michelle is the feminised version of her actual given name and Friday is her maiden name.

** Many of the early characters had these; a carry over from Collins time as writer of the ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' strip.

Ms. Tree's dead husband was named Michael Tree, the joke being that after the marriage they had the same name. Series creator/writer Max Allan Collins makes no secret of the fact that Ms. Tree was inspired by Velda, MikeHammer's secretary, a stacked, gun-carrying, 6-foot-tall brunette and Mike's lover, who was almost as tough as he was. The basic premise of ''Ms. Tree'' was, "What if Velda and Mike Hammer eventually got married, and on their honeymoon he was murdered?"

* RealityEnsues: As noted above, Michael's enchant for trigger happy violence gets her arrested and committed for a while.

* ThreeDComicBook

* GayAesop: "Skeletons in the Closet" ends with one of these.

** Or Dominque Mureta's daughter.

* StarCrossedLovers: Michael's son and the Mureta girl. Subverted in that Michael, although of course doesn't care for this development, she considers it purely the kids' affair and does not try to keep them apart. Furthermore, she is GenreSavvy enough to know doing so would only encourage their love and notes with a smile to the girl's mother and crime boss that she should have just let the relationship run its course instead of packing her off to a foreign school to keep the kids separated.

** Many of the early characters had these; a carry over from Collins time as writer of the ''DickTracy'' strip.

* ShowSomeLeg: Michael is known to use "the Nailer" technique from ''ModestyBlaise''.

''Ms. Tree'' was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, ''{{Road to Perdition}}''. Terry Beatty was the series' artist. The character first appeared in ''Eclipse Magazine'' #1 (May, 1981), the debut publication of Eclipse Enterprises. Subsequent appearances in anthology comics were deemed successful enough. Resulting in the ongoing series ''Ms. Tree's Thrilling Detective Adventures'', later shortened to ''Ms. Tree''. While there were a couple of changes in publisher, said series lasted for 50 issues (February, 1983-July, 1989).

''Ms. Tree'' was the best-known comic book creation of author Max Allan Collins prior to his graphic novel, ''{{Road to Perdition}}''. Terry Beatty was the series' artist.