Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 31, 2013

Good old fashioned Gouldian coincidence!

Creepy . . .

Good morning all…

Will the kids go in the cemetery to retrieve the ball?

Whoa, the plot thickens!Good morning, VB!

Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones…

The bones, so close to the door, were they about to leave?

You said: “Now that isn’t supposed to happen. They are in coffins stacked in a mausoleum.”-———————————————————Maybe these bones aren’t supposed to be there…(Nothing like finding a skeleton to move the story along!)

A special thank you to tsull & Willy for putting “SPOILER ALERT” in their comments yesterday.Much as I like reading everyone’s comments, I appreciate the choice of skipping them, to stay in suspense. Thanks, guys.

There’s a Mausoleum very similar to the one pictured here in a cemetery about an hour from here, when I was a kid, the thing creeped the heck out of me! The resident was one of the richest men in the Niagara Region, Sam Hopkins, businessman, “49er” in the Calif gold rush and the first Reeve of the town of Port Colborne:

First, we find out about the skeletons in the closet. Second, Tracy has Toad tested for steroids. (Big Sammy Sosa fan, that Toad.)

Personally, at that age, I’d have left the ball right where it was….and at this age too, I think :P

With one panel (the last one), the story just got VERY interesting. Something tells me Toad is headed for some serious trouble.

It’s getting good!

Me thinks a murder victim is what we see, not the intended resident.

Glass in the door, and an uncased skeleton? I don’t think so.

Still seems to me like Graceland Cemetery on Chicago’s north Side (Uptown, Lawrence and Clark, just a little north of Wrigley Field). See the External Links at the end of the wikipedia article for photos, history, etc. At one stretch of my past, I used to drive by it pretty regularly…. I’d expect that an exposed skeleton is not part of a proper burial, but rather a hidden victim of crime.

funny how the ground rules for the game get laid out. “If the ball goes past mrs mayberry’s tree its an automatic double, if it hits the telephone pole its a foul ball, if it goes into the cemetery its an automatic homerun (mostly because we dont wanna go get it back)” lol

I wonder if Toad’s Mom and Mole got closer after that $$$$ dinner date together…. was really hoping we’d see something about “How it went”

Hopefully, we’ll have an answer by Feb 14th ;)

oh, and before anyone nitpicks about how the broken glass from the window should have been on the INSIDE of the mausoleum instead of falling OUTSIDE.. i have hit plenty of baseballs (ok, thrown many rocks!) thru windows and there is DEFINITELY going to be glass both inside and out, even tho the majority would be inside there is for sure some on the outside as well

It’s the Baux family tomb, so “Sweat” Baux is certainly going to be involved somehow…

Hey, is Toad playing ball with Dondi, the big eared orphan who had his own strip from 1955 until 1986? It kinda looks like him in panel one. If so, sweet!

Funny. Yesterday Toad was batting right handed and today she’s batting left handed.

Toad she takes a mighty swing, launching a home runPlaying baseball in the snow can be a ton of fun.The towering blast doth send the ball into the cemeteryCrashing the crypt’s leaded glass, Toad now please be wary.Above the doors the name is Baux, inside is disarrayWhere bones should be all boxed up, we find some on display.Run away home; don’t linger here; best to tell the Mole.There’s danger in finding a corpse, safety down the hole.Might there be a conspiracy, a connection to Sweat Box?If he tries to harm the slugger Toad, than on his house a pox.

And an automatic home run for this mystery.

A skeleton that close to the door suggests a premature burial. When the victim awoke and realized where where he/she was, tried to break out but failed, dying near the exit.

BAUX, same name as the long dead camp killer…..

Lincoln Park in Chicago (now an upscale lakeside area of Chicago) used to be the city cemetery before the Chicago Fire.

When the area was made into a park, most of the graves were moved. However, one mausoleum extremely similar to the one in the strip remains in the park after a Supreme Court decision that the plot belonged to the dead and not the living and could not be moved"—It was also deemed that the tomb was too heavy and would cost too much to move. Although the tomb is marked for the Couch family, there is no definitive evidence of who or how many are actually buried in there.

Whenever construction is done in Lincoln Park, it is not uncommon to hit bones. There is also a legend that during the Chicago Fire people threw their jewelry into open graves to try and save it.

“Tomb in Chicago’s Lincoln Park”

This reminds me of the opening of a novel called The Family Vault. A late but still aggravating relative of the main character insisted on being interred in the long disused family crypt. When the thing is opened, there’s an extra skeleton just inside the door.

OK, so who broke my window?.

Why would a mausoleum have glass windows? Who’d be looking out? Or, in?

It is sooo nice to know there will be no pedophile story and I can stop bracing myself for something bad to happen to Toad. A little incredible that’s the first broken window in obviously a long, long time, though….hmmmm…..I know it won’t happen, but it would be a laugh if the skeleton turned out to be one of MOLE’S old victims, and he got more time……“gee, thanks, Toad” ha ha…

Still Da Man, I really see nothing wrong at all with your comments recently; did the Ghost of Tracy strips future visit you, lol? (jk)

Who is it”, was the first question that escaped the lips of all present. Speculation ran the gamut from Jimmy Hoffa to the remains of Judge Reinhold’s career. Disappointment spread thru the crowd when they realized it was only a poor, lonely soul who expired waiting for some excitement in the Dick Tracy Daily Strip.^^hahahahahahNow THAT is thinking out of the Baux, my appologies to Otto

What she (Toad) used ?

HGH ? You could well be RIGHT . . .Like someone using MPH when they WRITE

All right, labels!

spooky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think the kid in the 1rst panel (close-up), was meant to be black; GC colourist strikes again!

Not bad for hitting it off the handle.

Talk about a switch hitter! When the pitch is delivered she’s a righty, but when she hits the ball, she’s a lefty!