FINALLY!!!!! This is euphoria for me! The Bribery story (from his introduction during the Matty Square storyline through his “exit” during the Chin Chillar storyline) was my absolute favorite!
You would be much happier kidnapped at lunchtime ?I wouldn’t be happy in either case, but I’m pretty sure I’d be grouchier if someone woke me up when I was trying to sleep before they took me away.
Why is it called kidnapping when it is a full grown man ?
Supposedly, the original meaning of kidnapping was to “steal children to provide servants and laborers in the American colonies,” but it has changed and expanded since then. Words are like that. Now, it includes carrying away any person, and it almost always implies holding them for ransom. Since Mr. Bigg certainly will want something from Diet, it qualifies as a kidnapping. (Méliès obviously engineered the capture, but he also wants something in return.)
I put the following here only because I have wanted it for a long time:When, the hand with the rose (and the song) appeared here on 6-4-2015, I was the first to post::“OMG!!! I’ve hinted, “predicted” and HOPED for this FOR YEARS!!! I freely acknowledge that I may very easily be mistaken or maybe it’s just wishful-thinking on my part…but, is this THE RETURN OF MR. BRIBERY???!”And years prior to that (5-31-2012, during the “Mr. Crime” story), I said:“After reading today’s comments, so far, I went back & reread Mr. Bribery’s “last” story. And while Mr. & Mrs. Chin Chillar (what a great couple!) did indeed drop Bribery through the roof of the prison carpenter shop, no one actually says that he is dead. You would assume so, but quoting the 2 prison guards, upon discovering him, “It’s the first time anybody ever came to work in the carpenter shop this early.” “And he didn’t use the door?” “Who is he?” “Ugh! That’s a good question.” I only bring this up because Bribery was a great character who Chester Gould must have liked because his story seemed to last a long time. The new Mr. Crime? Who knows?”I’ll freely admit that I’m no Willy007 who spent a lot of time & effort figuring out that the new Moon Maid was Mindy Ermine (especially since I also speculated – tongue-in-cheek – that Mr. Crime could also be Cheater Gunsmoke!). It’s just that I’m happy to see this rose-loving psycho once again!THANK YOU, MIKE & JOE!
AMAZING….after being tossed out of a Space Coupe and slamming through the roof of that building, Bribery should have been pushing up daises. Should be interesting seeing how he cheated certain death.
OK, Bribery survived. But he was in jail, waiting for the chair, or at the very least having been condemned for life! How could he get out? But after the aqualung story of BB Eyes I’m prepared to accept any explanation…
The Reveal that everyone has been eagerly anticipating! And, yes, it is the quirky Mr. Bribery, a.k.a. Mr. Bigg! With his head twisted at that angle, I wonder if in his great fall he broke his neck and, since we haven’t seen him standing, much less dancing around, is perhaps partially paralyzed? That would explain a smoldering desire for revenge and a black heart….
Since Bigg seems to approve of Melies" action, will Melies give up the second part of his scheme, which was to see Bigg “Dead fish dead”? If this brings the Melies faction back into Mr. Bigg’s “good graces”, maybe they will realize they are still better off being part of the team.
Yesterday’s discussion on Blaze Rises’ assignment of secretary or ’errand boy" is another repetition of her given tasks she has to endure. She seems harmless with the exception of her revenge against her sisters killer.
Christine’s fate was in the wind. She committed suicide rather than be taken to jail. From safe air car to chimney chute, Ugly Christine has gone kaput. So good to see Bribery again after all these years. More of the good stuff from Team Tracy!
Bribery lives! I don’t know how he survived his fall into prison, but I’m sure there will be an explanation. Whatever it is, I’m excited he’s back! He is a big favorite of mine and one of the best Tracy villains ever!
Booyah! I’m sorry Ugly Christine can’t be around. Very happy to have Bribery back alive on the other hand. Mrs. Chin Chillar and Moon Maid too? I must be dreaming! Good times!
Meanwhile, in the back, the henchmen take their usual bets as to when Mr. B’s neck snaps from the odd positions into which he constantly puts his head…
I predicted that Mr. Bigg was Bribery back on June 13th in a rather long post. Some said it couldn’t be. Bribery had died in the fall through the roof. Today my prediction is totally confirmed.
Now that Mr. Bigg is confirmed to be Bribery, it is likely the prediction about the appearance of Moon Governor will prove true as well. I’m looking for him about the middle of this arc.
On July 10th in another lengthy post with discussion, I traced what I believe to be the progression of the 52 Gang into the Apparatus into the modern Blackhearts. My belief, as I stated, is that Bribery (under various aliases) was the actual head of each of those organizations. Let’s see if that thought pans out.
I’ll admit that my speculation about him being in some crippled Davros-like state seems incorrect but I still want to see him dance around and sing like a maniac.
I like Joe’s rendition of one of Tracy’s most famous foes.
In fact, there is an excellent discussion on July 10th that serves as a great background for all that is now about to happen now that Bribery is confirmed.
Well, after waiting nearly FIFTY years for the return of Mr. Bribery, my all-time favorite Tracy villain, and after reading DT online for several years after our newspaper did away with him, I have decided to join and post on this momentous date!
Like other here, I eagerly await an explanation as to how Bribery survived his fall at the hands of the murderous Chin Chillars back in 1967, an event I watched live, and for which I never forgave them.
(My user name reflects the year I began reading Tracy, during the Matty Square sequence.)
Now if only cigar-smoking Kitty would return.The last I saw, he was in the police zoo with Lil Dropout and Claiborne, the crow.
My Tracy mania back in the mid 60’s lead me to cutting out and saving the Bribery story line from our paper, clippings I still have to this day.
I tossed out my Bribery speculation on March 25th. It was mostly wishful thinking, but I am so glad Bribery is back. What a great villain: one of Gould’s best.
Of all Tracy’s adversaries I’m familiar with, Mr. Bribery has got to be the creepiest and scariest. I bet even Flattop would have steered clear of him.
Thanks for re-posting your thoughtful, well-researched overview of Bribery and the Chin Chillars. Bribery was involved with fantastic characters covering multiple stories. What fun!
Diet’s comment, “Gah!” still seems appropriate even if he had no clue who that freak was. “Gah!” is what I said when I saw him, and I’ve never heard of Mr. Bribery. Gah!
Hopefully we’ll get an explanation of how Mr. B, rose from the dead, just like BB Eyes and Mumbles. Good story though, and B looks real good for a corpse. Who’s his mortician?
Ever since Moon Maid was reintroduced. it’s become clear how popular the Moon Era was and continues to be. The excitement and applause over Bribery’s return is the latest evidence of this. On the whole, the Dick Tracy fan base is clearly enthusiastic about the space fantasy angle, though admittedly some fans are not. Even the latter contingent can be glad, however, because it’s helped make Dick Tracy relevant again. People are talking about this strip. It’s winning awards! Who would have thought that possible six years ago? There’s little doubt that the return of Moon Maid has been a significant and ongoing catalyst to all that. The Harvey Awards, soon to be three I’m betting, tell me that not only serious Tracy fans are excited about Moon Maid and the return to space, but comic fans in general are approving of it. And why not? It’s creative, fun, and imaginative, with a healthy dose of notalgia mixed in. A potent, intoxicating brew for a new generation of fans who love that sort of thing. Long live the revived Moon Era!
A peaceful Saturday morning everyone.-——-Congrats to those who predicted this event.-——-*Willy007: Thanks for putting all the past clues together.-———Be happy and healthy my friends.
One thing I did not notice before: If you look closely at the panel showing bribery’s fall that Willy007 kindly put up for us, Bribery fell face forward! I had assumed he fell on this back. But now his face seems to look exactly like it did before his fall. I don’t have a clue if that means anything – but it is at least interesting to note.
Why is everyone so sure Ugly Christine is dead? It’s easy to explain her survival so long as she gets some sort of a handhold inside the chimney, or encounters maintenance scaffolding or ladder, for example. A standard industrial furnace wouldn’t likely be hot enough to so thoroughly destroy a human body as hers supposedly was, and the furnace could have had some screening to prevent hot shreds/ash from floating out into the city.
And didn’t Gould seem to be setting up another return for Bribery not too long after his “death”? The leader of a crime syndicate whose face was never shown, who appeared to be suffering from a serious physical injury, who dressed like bribery, who had connections to the Chin Chillars, who had an associate with that over-the-forehead hairstyle, who had a racket involving a Space Coupe similar to one today’s Bribery/Bigg is said to be interested in.
Mike and Joe could be setting up a really big retcon tying together most of the old Space Coupe storylines. If I have time, more tomorrow
First off, I haven’t read all of these comments so somebody may have mentioned this before. The package Notta receives from the Blackhearts a month or so ago could be payment for sparing Bribery’s life at the last minute. Possibly they switched somebody else for him. It seems the corpse was in pretty bad shape..maybe unrecognizable?
This is really fun. I’m so happy to have Bribery back again, alive! So many great memories are flooding back. Like the time he and Ugly Christine tried to kidnap Honeymoon. Wait until Moon Maid gets through with him if she finds out Mr. B tried to do harm to her Imoto-chan!
‘Interesting’ to take a peek at the length of time Mr. Bigg’s “identity” had been a closely held *secret*’A ‘long time’ when all we would see was a gesturing Hand (or hands) to tantalize us into all sorts of ‘speculation’.In this particular case, ranging from Batman’s Penguin through Intro, the jailed Ace of Spades, and others to Mr. Bribery. And then came the “hint” - with that affection for the Rose over these past weeks, the latter name seemed almost certain. Now confirmed !
Jan. 11, 2015
The HAND first appeared on (1-11-15) this year, or looked at another way, the “secret identity” was held for 6 months and 5 days !
How does the time frame ‘stack up’ against those of other earlier characters ?That of Venus easily comes to mind . . .We all recall that very much the fashion of Chet Gould’s Painted Lady (Neva Intro -1969) she was (extensively) portrayed with just her Legs showing, the Face hidden, never revealed for Seven months and 1 day !Almost seemed that 6 months or thereabouts was Mike’s preferred time ?
Oct, 4, 2013
May 4, 2014
That is, of course, until we look ‘further back’ to 2011 / 2012. And find that the “Big Winner” is easily NEWMr. Crime (aka Davey Myler)
We can compare the time span from two dates (take your pick?) From the date the Secret Files of the original Mr. Crime were picked up by a (then unidentified) individual (6-16-2011) or from the date Panda was hired (7-15-11) to set up the New Organization If we use the more generous longer time that’s 1year + 1 day to find out the Identity, *o*r from the Panda come in date 11 months *and *2 days !
As many of the long time Tracyville vets have predicted, Mr. Bigg is in fact Mr. Bribery.
Thank you, Ray Toler, Willy007, Pequod77 (looking forward for your poem tomorrow!), and the other DT vets for your knowledge and history of this rather quirky, creepy villain, and I’m looking forward how his legend (or notoriety) is played out.
That crooked neck and smile is already creeping me out! Brrr!
While I would love to believe my handle had something small to do with these events (handle started in Locher days, then Bribery’s first appearance in 2011 mentioned shrinking Tracy’s head…which gave me the smallest hope this would really happen), who cares? This is awesome!!! I always wondered why the Chin Chillars were not being threatened with Bribery’s death and had slim hope that one day he would return…until Gould retired and so with it 1962-1977.
The Comic Curmudgeon stated today "Bribery is a bad man even by the standards of Dick Tracy villians, and let me tell you that is pretty bad; the beloved insane villain of the beloved insane “Descent into Madness” period.
As stated in a previous post on this…for me Bribery’s quirks are what made him genius; smoking cats, pickpocketing, deathtraps, shrunken heads, coke sniffing shaman, branding, bribery, councilmen, blase secretaries, roses, no more corpus delecti. He has quite the rogues gallery assembled this time, should be a very interesting story.
Thank you Team Tracy! What a great illustration of Bribery to kick it all off!
VERY VERY LATE IN THE DAY, don’t know if anyone will notice….The one speculation I haven’t seen is this:.Mr. Bribery is another chimera, just like Mysta! Of course, we would need to know who was sacrificed for Mr. Bribery, just as Mindy Ermine was sacrificed for Mysta. It might also explain why Bribery is now Mr. Bigg; like Mysta, he is not the original….This alone would explain interest in Smith, space coupes, not to mention Zy Ghote and Tim Sail!.It would also get us around absolutely any continuity problems presented by Bribery’s death back in the sixties!
Mr. Bribery (Mr. Bigg) is back! Who would expect this guy to come back after 50 years. I don’t how this was done, but this is good! I wonder if I will dress up a Mr. Bribery for Halloween.
Well, we finally found out for sure that Bribery is back. This wasn’t a misdirection by Team Tracy to throw us off and surprise us. The clues shown over the last few months could only lead to Bribery. I don’t know how he survived or how he got out of prison but looking over the history of comic characters that were certainly dead but still were alive this is not so hard to explain. A lot of things could have happened to explain this. I remember anxiously reading the original Bribery story in the 1960s so this is a real treat. One of Tracy’s greatest villains is back. This is going to be some ride.
cpalmeresq over 9 years ago
FINALLY!!!!! This is euphoria for me! The Bribery story (from his introduction during the Matty Square storyline through his “exit” during the Chin Chillar storyline) was my absolute favorite!
Neil Wick over 9 years ago
Heeeeeere’s Bribery! And it looks like he’s in one piece.
He looks so great, but Diet Smith is not happy to see him at all! I probably wouldn’t be either, if I was kidnapped at 3 am.
Neil Wick over 9 years ago
Mr. B seems very pleased with this, so, good move, Méliès!
cpalmeresq over 9 years ago
Don’t recall if Bribery & Diet ever saw each other face-to-face, but could recognize one another from newspaper stories!
Vista Bill Raley and Comet™ over 9 years ago
Good morning guys!-I’m glad I stayed up now! I did not expect to see who Mr. Bigg is until tomorrow. I wonder why Abner didn’t tell me?
phinnmam over 9 years ago
Joie Packet=Mr. Bribery=Mr. Bigg is back! Now fill us in on how he survived that fall from the Space Coupe!
fredville over 9 years ago
High five to Mike & Joe…..you didn’t let us down!!!!!!!!!!!!
fredville over 9 years ago
Of course, if Bigg realizes Diets behind him losing all those guys on the space coupe……
fredville over 9 years ago
Great artwork on Mr. Bribery, Joe!
Ashmael over 9 years ago
Good morning DT fans! I wonder how he did survive the fall, shirk the chair and regain freedom, power and wealth?
Neil Wick over 9 years ago
You would be much happier kidnapped at lunchtime ?I wouldn’t be happy in either case, but I’m pretty sure I’d be grouchier if someone woke me up when I was trying to sleep before they took me away.
Why is it called kidnapping when it is a full grown man ?
Supposedly, the original meaning of kidnapping was to “steal children to provide servants and laborers in the American colonies,” but it has changed and expanded since then. Words are like that. Now, it includes carrying away any person, and it almost always implies holding them for ransom. Since Mr. Bigg certainly will want something from Diet, it qualifies as a kidnapping. (Méliès obviously engineered the capture, but he also wants something in return.)AnyFace over 9 years ago
All will be explained tomorrow. [… I hope!]
AnyFace over 9 years ago
Congratulations to everyone who correctly puzzled out Mr. Bigg’s true identity! Kudos!
cpalmeresq over 9 years ago
I put the following here only because I have wanted it for a long time:When, the hand with the rose (and the song) appeared here on 6-4-2015, I was the first to post::“OMG!!! I’ve hinted, “predicted” and HOPED for this FOR YEARS!!! I freely acknowledge that I may very easily be mistaken or maybe it’s just wishful-thinking on my part…but, is this THE RETURN OF MR. BRIBERY???!”And years prior to that (5-31-2012, during the “Mr. Crime” story), I said:“After reading today’s comments, so far, I went back & reread Mr. Bribery’s “last” story. And while Mr. & Mrs. Chin Chillar (what a great couple!) did indeed drop Bribery through the roof of the prison carpenter shop, no one actually says that he is dead. You would assume so, but quoting the 2 prison guards, upon discovering him, “It’s the first time anybody ever came to work in the carpenter shop this early.” “And he didn’t use the door?” “Who is he?” “Ugh! That’s a good question.” I only bring this up because Bribery was a great character who Chester Gould must have liked because his story seemed to last a long time. The new Mr. Crime? Who knows?”I’ll freely admit that I’m no Willy007 who spent a lot of time & effort figuring out that the new Moon Maid was Mindy Ermine (especially since I also speculated – tongue-in-cheek – that Mr. Crime could also be Cheater Gunsmoke!). It’s just that I’m happy to see this rose-loving psycho once again!THANK YOU, MIKE & JOE!
jonahhex1 over 9 years ago
AMAZING….after being tossed out of a Space Coupe and slamming through the roof of that building, Bribery should have been pushing up daises. Should be interesting seeing how he cheated certain death.
Ashmael over 9 years ago
OK, Bribery survived. But he was in jail, waiting for the chair, or at the very least having been condemned for life! How could he get out? But after the aqualung story of BB Eyes I’m prepared to accept any explanation…
Sisyphos over 9 years ago
The Reveal that everyone has been eagerly anticipating! And, yes, it is the quirky Mr. Bribery, a.k.a. Mr. Bigg! With his head twisted at that angle, I wonder if in his great fall he broke his neck and, since we haven’t seen him standing, much less dancing around, is perhaps partially paralyzed? That would explain a smoldering desire for revenge and a black heart….
coldsooner over 9 years ago
Ah HA! No wonder Méliès was so fired up about kidnapping Diet. You might say it was a pretty “Bigg” deal!
seanyj over 9 years ago
Bingo! You guys called it weeks ago! Mr. Bigg is Mr. Bribery! How did you guys know?
Ashmael over 9 years ago
And another thing…the Chin Chillars double crossed and tried to kill him…why is Notta still alive? Maybe Bribery forgot in the trauma?
stsparky over 9 years ago
Notta might be alive if she dropped a dummy or enabled Bribery to live with a trick somehow.
tarabuff over 9 years ago
I knew it, I knew it! Way to go!
davidf42 over 9 years ago
Morning, Tracyville!
No more corpus delicti…No more corpus delicti…
Ken in Ohio over 9 years ago
Since Bigg seems to approve of Melies" action, will Melies give up the second part of his scheme, which was to see Bigg “Dead fish dead”? If this brings the Melies faction back into Mr. Bigg’s “good graces”, maybe they will realize they are still better off being part of the team.
nighthawk1 over 9 years ago
Does anyone know if Ugly Christine is dead or alive?
FFosdick over 9 years ago
Yesterday’s discussion on Blaze Rises’ assignment of secretary or ’errand boy" is another repetition of her given tasks she has to endure. She seems harmless with the exception of her revenge against her sisters killer.
Still waiting to see her triplet.
AnyFace over 9 years ago
Ugly Christine fell into an active smokestack or something.
Pequod over 9 years ago
Christine’s fate was in the wind. She committed suicide rather than be taken to jail. From safe air car to chimney chute, Ugly Christine has gone kaput. So good to see Bribery again after all these years. More of the good stuff from Team Tracy!
abdullahbaba999 over 9 years ago
Ah, now the surprise…..I love this …Thank You All for sharing..its great being part of this..
60sFan over 9 years ago
Bribery lives! I don’t know how he survived his fall into prison, but I’m sure there will be an explanation. Whatever it is, I’m excited he’s back! He is a big favorite of mine and one of the best Tracy villains ever!
fhoffman01 over 9 years ago
Booyah! I’m sorry Ugly Christine can’t be around. Very happy to have Bribery back alive on the other hand. Mrs. Chin Chillar and Moon Maid too? I must be dreaming! Good times!
the too late song over 9 years ago
Holy buckets Batman. He’s alive and still as creepy as can be. Wonder how he survived the fall?
jrankin1959 over 9 years ago
Meanwhile, in the back, the henchmen take their usual bets as to when Mr. B’s neck snaps from the odd positions into which he constantly puts his head…
Ray Toler over 9 years ago
I predicted that Mr. Bigg was Bribery back on June 13th in a rather long post. Some said it couldn’t be. Bribery had died in the fall through the roof. Today my prediction is totally confirmed.
Now that Mr. Bigg is confirmed to be Bribery, it is likely the prediction about the appearance of Moon Governor will prove true as well. I’m looking for him about the middle of this arc.
On July 10th in another lengthy post with discussion, I traced what I believe to be the progression of the 52 Gang into the Apparatus into the modern Blackhearts. My belief, as I stated, is that Bribery (under various aliases) was the actual head of each of those organizations. Let’s see if that thought pans out.
I’ll admit that my speculation about him being in some crippled Davros-like state seems incorrect but I still want to see him dance around and sing like a maniac.
I like Joe’s rendition of one of Tracy’s most famous foes.
Ray Toler over 9 years ago
On July 10th, I gave one possible way that Bribery could have survived the fall (illustrated with old panels),
Ray Toler over 9 years ago
In fact, there is an excellent discussion on July 10th that serves as a great background for all that is now about to happen now that Bribery is confirmed.
Morrow Cummings over 9 years ago
Mike and Joe, not only have to won the Harvey Awards, but you also a shoo-in for the First Annual “Ledgerdemain” Award! (look it up, Otto!)
TracyFan 65 over 9 years ago
Well, after waiting nearly FIFTY years for the return of Mr. Bribery, my all-time favorite Tracy villain, and after reading DT online for several years after our newspaper did away with him, I have decided to join and post on this momentous date!
Like other here, I eagerly await an explanation as to how Bribery survived his fall at the hands of the murderous Chin Chillars back in 1967, an event I watched live, and for which I never forgave them.
(My user name reflects the year I began reading Tracy, during the Matty Square sequence.)
Now if only cigar-smoking Kitty would return.The last I saw, he was in the police zoo with Lil Dropout and Claiborne, the crow.
My Tracy mania back in the mid 60’s lead me to cutting out and saving the Bribery story line from our paper, clippings I still have to this day.
doc1947g over 9 years ago
October 5-6, 1965, Ugly Christine IronBrand Square with the letter B.
Pequod over 9 years ago
I tossed out my Bribery speculation on March 25th. It was mostly wishful thinking, but I am so glad Bribery is back. What a great villain: one of Gould’s best.
Can't Sleep over 9 years ago
Of all Tracy’s adversaries I’m familiar with, Mr. Bribery has got to be the creepiest and scariest. I bet even Flattop would have steered clear of him.
Chris Sherlock over 9 years ago
From Bribery/Bigg’s reaction, I’d say Melies, Apollo and Venus have officially gotten back into his good graces.
Chris Sherlock over 9 years ago
Why is it called kidnapping when it is a full grown man ?-—————————One of life’s imponderables, Gweedo! ;-)
willy007 over 9 years ago
It’s barely 7:00am PT on a Saturday, and we’re already up to 50 comments!Like many others, I, too, am cheering wildly over this development!
johnrussco over 9 years ago
oh, shoot what a disappointment
thunderbearr over 9 years ago
Mr. Bribery has always been difficult to look at. Is his neck twisted or what?
Pequod over 9 years ago
Thanks for re-posting your thoughtful, well-researched overview of Bribery and the Chin Chillars. Bribery was involved with fantastic characters covering multiple stories. What fun!
Donnie Pitchford Premium Member over 9 years ago
Oh, how I remember this villain!
Jerry1967 over 9 years ago
Confirmed!! What a great day. Bravo, Mike Curtis and Joe Staton!
Durak Premium Member over 9 years ago
Diet’s comment, “Gah!” still seems appropriate even if he had no clue who that freak was. “Gah!” is what I said when I saw him, and I’ve never heard of Mr. Bribery. Gah!
mumbles over 9 years ago
Hopefully we’ll get an explanation of how Mr. B, rose from the dead, just like BB Eyes and Mumbles. Good story though, and B looks real good for a corpse. Who’s his mortician?
Jerry1967 over 9 years ago
Ever since Moon Maid was reintroduced. it’s become clear how popular the Moon Era was and continues to be. The excitement and applause over Bribery’s return is the latest evidence of this. On the whole, the Dick Tracy fan base is clearly enthusiastic about the space fantasy angle, though admittedly some fans are not. Even the latter contingent can be glad, however, because it’s helped make Dick Tracy relevant again. People are talking about this strip. It’s winning awards! Who would have thought that possible six years ago? There’s little doubt that the return of Moon Maid has been a significant and ongoing catalyst to all that. The Harvey Awards, soon to be three I’m betting, tell me that not only serious Tracy fans are excited about Moon Maid and the return to space, but comic fans in general are approving of it. And why not? It’s creative, fun, and imaginative, with a healthy dose of notalgia mixed in. A potent, intoxicating brew for a new generation of fans who love that sort of thing. Long live the revived Moon Era!
kantuck-nadie over 9 years ago
Well, it appears we all was correct. the infamous Mr. Bribery returns. Am I the only one who is a bit creeped out, by him?
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 9 years ago
Ahhh. Didn’t this clown die June 6, 1967?
Starman1948 over 9 years ago
A peaceful Saturday morning everyone.-——-Congrats to those who predicted this event.-——-*Willy007: Thanks for putting all the past clues together.-———Be happy and healthy my friends.
s.gottlieb over 9 years ago
Middle age man napping doesn’t have the same ring to it I guess…
sjsczurek over 9 years ago
Mr. Bribery?I thought he was slated for the electric chair many years ago.
Ken in Ohio over 9 years ago
One thing I did not notice before: If you look closely at the panel showing bribery’s fall that Willy007 kindly put up for us, Bribery fell face forward! I had assumed he fell on this back. But now his face seems to look exactly like it did before his fall. I don’t have a clue if that means anything – but it is at least interesting to note.
johnrussco over 9 years ago
I got your email today if that is you with that cute pup you a handsome dude yourself.
Kip W over 9 years ago
Oh, excellent. Continuing to enjoy the ride here. Bribery goes right back to my earliest memories of the newspaper strip (more or less).
david black Premium Member over 9 years ago
is there a file to look up on this Mr Bribery? I dont remember anything about him
Judge Magney over 9 years ago
Why is everyone so sure Ugly Christine is dead? It’s easy to explain her survival so long as she gets some sort of a handhold inside the chimney, or encounters maintenance scaffolding or ladder, for example. A standard industrial furnace wouldn’t likely be hot enough to so thoroughly destroy a human body as hers supposedly was, and the furnace could have had some screening to prevent hot shreds/ash from floating out into the city.
And didn’t Gould seem to be setting up another return for Bribery not too long after his “death”? The leader of a crime syndicate whose face was never shown, who appeared to be suffering from a serious physical injury, who dressed like bribery, who had connections to the Chin Chillars, who had an associate with that over-the-forehead hairstyle, who had a racket involving a Space Coupe similar to one today’s Bribery/Bigg is said to be interested in.
Mike and Joe could be setting up a really big retcon tying together most of the old Space Coupe storylines. If I have time, more tomorrow
knto999 over 9 years ago
First off, I haven’t read all of these comments so somebody may have mentioned this before. The package Notta receives from the Blackhearts a month or so ago could be payment for sparing Bribery’s life at the last minute. Possibly they switched somebody else for him. It seems the corpse was in pretty bad shape..maybe unrecognizable?
TJ000 over 9 years ago
This is really fun. I’m so happy to have Bribery back again, alive! So many great memories are flooding back. Like the time he and Ugly Christine tried to kidnap Honeymoon. Wait until Moon Maid gets through with him if she finds out Mr. B tried to do harm to her Imoto-chan!
SYDNEY PHILLIPS over 9 years ago
‘Interesting’ to take a peek at the length of time Mr. Bigg’s “identity” had been a closely held *secret*’A ‘long time’ when all we would see was a gesturing Hand (or hands) to tantalize us into all sorts of ‘speculation’.In this particular case, ranging from Batman’s Penguin through Intro, the jailed Ace of Spades, and others to Mr. Bribery. And then came the “hint” - with that affection for the Rose over these past weeks, the latter name seemed almost certain. Now confirmed !
Jan. 11, 2015
The HAND first appeared on (1-11-15) this year, or looked at another way, the “secret identity” was held for 6 months and 5 days !
How does the time frame ‘stack up’ against those of other earlier characters ?That of Venus easily comes to mind . . .We all recall that very much the fashion of Chet Gould’s Painted Lady (Neva Intro -1969) she was (extensively) portrayed with just her Legs showing, the Face hidden, never revealed for Seven months and 1 day !Almost seemed that 6 months or thereabouts was Mike’s preferred time ?
Oct, 4, 2013
May 4, 2014
That is, of course, until we look ‘further back’ to 2011 / 2012. And find that the “Big Winner” is easily NEW Mr. Crime (aka Davey Myler)
We can compare the time span from two dates (take your pick?) From the date the Secret Files of the original Mr. Crime were picked up by a (then unidentified) individual (6-16-2011) or from the date Panda was hired (7-15-11) to set up the New Organization If we use the more generous longer time that’s 1year + 1 day to find out the Identity, *o*r from the Panda come in date 11 months *and *2 days !
June 16, 2011
July 15, 2011
June 16, 2012
June 17, 2012
HAL69 over 9 years ago
As many of the long time Tracyville vets have predicted, Mr. Bigg is in fact Mr. Bribery.
Thank you, Ray Toler, Willy007, Pequod77 (looking forward for your poem tomorrow!), and the other DT vets for your knowledge and history of this rather quirky, creepy villain, and I’m looking forward how his legend (or notoriety) is played out.
That crooked neck and smile is already creeping me out! Brrr!
MrBriberysShrunkenHeads over 9 years ago
While I would love to believe my handle had something small to do with these events (handle started in Locher days, then Bribery’s first appearance in 2011 mentioned shrinking Tracy’s head…which gave me the smallest hope this would really happen), who cares? This is awesome!!! I always wondered why the Chin Chillars were not being threatened with Bribery’s death and had slim hope that one day he would return…until Gould retired and so with it 1962-1977.
The Comic Curmudgeon stated today "Bribery is a bad man even by the standards of Dick Tracy villians, and let me tell you that is pretty bad; the beloved insane villain of the beloved insane “Descent into Madness” period.
As stated in a previous post on this…for me Bribery’s quirks are what made him genius; smoking cats, pickpocketing, deathtraps, shrunken heads, coke sniffing shaman, branding, bribery, councilmen, blase secretaries, roses, no more corpus delecti. He has quite the rogues gallery assembled this time, should be a very interesting story.
Thank you Team Tracy! What a great illustration of Bribery to kick it all off!
Cheapskate0 over 9 years ago
VERY VERY LATE IN THE DAY, don’t know if anyone will notice….The one speculation I haven’t seen is this:.Mr. Bribery is another chimera, just like Mysta! Of course, we would need to know who was sacrificed for Mr. Bribery, just as Mindy Ermine was sacrificed for Mysta. It might also explain why Bribery is now Mr. Bigg; like Mysta, he is not the original….This alone would explain interest in Smith, space coupes, not to mention Zy Ghote and Tim Sail!.It would also get us around absolutely any continuity problems presented by Bribery’s death back in the sixties!
AnyFace over 9 years ago
nighthawk1 over 9 years ago
Thanks everyone, for the information on Ugly Christine. I wondered what had happened to her.
GasHouseGorilla over 9 years ago
Mr. Bribery (Mr. Bigg) is back! Who would expect this guy to come back after 50 years. I don’t how this was done, but this is good! I wonder if I will dress up a Mr. Bribery for Halloween.
Jerryjohn52 over 9 years ago
Well, we finally found out for sure that Bribery is back. This wasn’t a misdirection by Team Tracy to throw us off and surprise us. The clues shown over the last few months could only lead to Bribery. I don’t know how he survived or how he got out of prison but looking over the history of comic characters that were certainly dead but still were alive this is not so hard to explain. A lot of things could have happened to explain this. I remember anxiously reading the original Bribery story in the 1960s so this is a real treat. One of Tracy’s greatest villains is back. This is going to be some ride.