Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 14, 2016
April 08, 2016
April 15, 2016
Transcript:
Enjoy this classic Tom the dancing bug Vintage 1995 The adventures of Sam Roland the detective who dies THE MYSTERY OF THE DEADLY LETTER OPENER After weeks of investigation, Roland calls together everyone who attended the dinner at which industrialist Bernard Platt was found stabbed to death by an Ivory Letter opener. Sam: Each of you knew Mr. Platt well...and had reason to want to see him dead! Harold K. Reevers -- Platts stamp collecting rival cheated him out of the "ottoman star" Dr. Otis Snotseed -- Platts childhood chum who secretly abhorred Platt for his company environmental crimes, Including the use of ivory... Juanita Atkins --Platt's erstwhile lover with whom he recently broke up with a "Dear Juanita Letter... and Nils Larson -- Platts longtime postman, were you surprised to find out you were a major beneficiary in Platt's will? But only one of you had the means and opportunity.... FOOSH The mystery of the deadly letter opener was very very close to being solved, But the fluke occurrence of spontaneous human combustion will forever keep a secret the brilliant solution deduced by Sam Roland, the detective who dies!!
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Funny_Ha_Ha over 8 years ago
Never a spoiler alert.
Randy B Premium Member over 8 years ago
His very nature prevents him from completing any investigations.
King_Shark over 8 years ago
Call Inspector Danger. Time someone killed him off.
John Falstaff over 8 years ago
I love the fact that Nils looks like a certain ex-president, the Creature from Yorba Linda
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 8 years ago
The solution took so much brain power, that his brain flared up starting the fire.
Thomas R. Williams over 8 years ago
Incendiary thought
Packratjohn Premium Member over 8 years ago
Spontaneous combustion is a very strange, and rare, deus ex machina
Dirty Dragon over 8 years ago
Darn, I thought for sure Sam would stab himself re-creating the crime.
MrsSnape over 8 years ago
As much as I love this comic strip I am getting very tired of this arc.
davids.comments over 8 years ago
It was Mr. Larson in the foyer with the poison letter!
jpozenel over 8 years ago
I’m betting Harold K. Reevers did it!
(Those stamp collectors are a tough bunch.)
kapock over 8 years ago
Yes, Duke ofOmnium! I remember reading a Dickens novel—was it “Martin Chuzzlewit”?; not sure—where he takes off on this tangent on spontaneous combustion. And he’s so self-righteous about it; outraged that any reasonable person could doubt the existence of this fiery menace.