Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 19, 2015

Fun strip once again, tonight! Nice little break.

Talk to the hand, Tracy!

Be nice to have this just run up to Christmas before getting back to murder and mayhem after the holiday.

.Good morning guys!

Gweedo spoke,Just in case, Mornin’ Mister clean and pressed !-—————————————————————————————-.G’morning Gweedo!

Looks a little like Chester Gould

So, Quincy sees Tracy perfectly well without wearing glasses (granted, he may have progressed to contact lenses). So “The Near-Sighted Mr. Magoo” is just a theatrical persona, and not the real Mr. Quincy Magoo? So it seems. It’s getting to be so hard to separate Tracyverse fact from fiction from Real Life fact, with the just-concluded tale and now this epistemological teaser. Well, on with the show!

Good morning everyone.-—————I’m headed to firearms training shortly. If I qualify I’m going to get a concealed carry permit. I will be using my Beretta U22 NEOS. My Christmas present to myself.-—————Have an abundantly good day my friends.

Good to know the real Squinty-Eyes is behind bars!

The ghost of Thomas Dewey sometimes haunts the Patterson Playhouse.

Hah, Magoo! You’ve done it again.

The guy behind Tracy looks like Walt Disney.

Looks kinda squinty.

I wonder if that mustachioed gentleman behind Tracy is someone we should know or not?

I expect that it’s probably no-one in particular, but I could be wrong. I think that having someone so close to the two main characters precludes them from being as fuzzily drawn as the people farther in the background, and I doubt that it was meant to be some recognizable person. Perhaps the colourist at GoComics shouldn’t highlighted him as much as he did.

Reminds me of actor Les Tremayne, who was a voice in the animated Magoo special.

I thought that guy behind them was Walt Disney

I believe the guy behind DT in panel one is Mike’s buddy, Coffee (Grounds). Coffee filled in for Vista Bill in the Gruesome story.

By George! A nice nod to Mr. Magoo and his holiday special.

And I agree with Night-Gaunt49’s comment from yesterday: Jim Backus IS Mr. Magoo.

It Looks like “Jim Trailer”

This strip sucks…. big time!Happy Holidays, folks!

As Alice Roosevelt Longworth described Dewey, “The little man on the wedding cake.”

Trivia: Mr. Magoo is owned by Classic Media, which was bought by Dreamworks. Classic Media/Dreamworks also owns the majority of Harvey Comics’ characters; Dreamworks joint venture AwesomenessTV’s treatment of Richie RIch left much to be diesired. http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/binge-watchalypse-now-the-heart-of-streaming-darkness-that-is-netflixs-richie-rich-reboot/

Oh magoo, you’ve done it again!

Also Dreamworks is owned by Paramount who originally owned made the Casper and Little Audrey et-al shorts before selling them to Harvey. So technically they get their property back.____________________

That’s business for you.

On a related note …

When CBS wanted to do a new MIGHTY MOUSE series in the 1980’s, they went to animator Ralph Bakshi, thinking he owned the rights to the property …

… only he didn’t.

CBS did.

Pretty sure Ralph never got around to telling them that.

This sequence has been staged much the same as the Popeye/Olive or Penguin cameos, so that a crossover character doesn’t directly appear on-camera.

Helps to cut down on frivolous lawsuits.

… but we know what’s what – and who’s who!

Make with the criminals getting impaled on things already.

I think we’re just taking about a one week breather from criminals getting impaled on things. We should be back to criminality just after Christmas.

Walt Disney perhaps? He does look familiar for some reason.