Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 06, 2019

Unconscious, Sparkle’s hanging on

To life she holds most dear

In inner workings of her mind

It is so very clear

That something wicked this way comes

Brings danger to the door

There is a killer on the loose

Shall Sparkle be no more?

Junior keeps a watchful eye

Heartache does know him well

Moon Maid taken from this world

For years he lived in hell.

Poison is as poison does

Five victims underground

Wife and daughter of the man

Detective of renown.

Tape is played. Welfare waylaid

Foul cloud pollutes the air

Tess and Bonnie at grave risk

Won’t panic or despair.

The perp sure gets around. ✨

This is really alarming. This person or persons unknown really gets around and must be very smart to set it up like this. I just love it!

Good morning™, wartime gas victims !

Second time this week I had to pull up the “TM” from Character map. So now Neil can copy from me !

Did Bonny have her home interior painted too ?  Otherwise how is this bird getting in all these places and there might yet be another gassing before the conclusion.

Good morning™, Ralph Byrd fans!

Ralph Byrd became so identified with the role of Dick Tracy on film and TV that fans would accept nobody else in the role. The grueling schedule of the television shoot was said to have led to his death.

How did he know Tracy will ask for the tape and set a trap for Tracy. Bribery should have hired this guy instead of Sawtooth

But this, is going to give him a real idea who is behind it….

Dick Tracy—so High tech and yet still a Luddite

I guess Joe is at school right now, since Tracy isn’t mentioning him. The only member of the Tracy family not involved in this storyline in anyway.

It’s been a great week until now. At the very least Bonnie should be unconscious and on the floor since the smoke bomb went off directly in front of her.

On another note, since this is just a fantasy story I think Sam did it to get back at Tracy for all the years of being treated as a second fiddle!

Told you that Betamax is superior! But nooooooo…. ;D

Hey kids, get set for the next Dick Tracy adventure, “The Revenge of Beta-Max!”

so are mine! (favorite Ralph Byrd on vhs…still have 100 + serials…and a tv with built in vhs player)

Press Play – where?

Now that’s long range planning! Or else the tape’s so dusty it’s blowing off dust.

Remember every Sunday there’s a new Lum and Abner by Donnie Pritchard (the guest writer for this Minit Mystery) http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/Comic-Strip-Home.html

Hope they have an explanation at the end for how the perp is able to access all these personal items.

Who didn’t see that coming?

Wow!

Tracy looks like he got a good whiff of that gas.

Did he suspect this would happen? Why did he let his family stay? Why didn’t this happen to “Barney” videos?! I would have welcomed death during one of the thousands of times my kids watch those!

The real rub for Tracy is that he will now have to go out and find a replacement VCR…

I’ve been pressing play with my remote control all morning, and nothing! No clues! I’m clueless!

“And if you put out a fake sign, try to spell ‘Eagle’ correctly.”

What does it take to get the exclusive on being Tracy’s glazier ?

I’m really enjoying this

someone want to tell dick that they can convert VCR’s to DVD’s and they don’t decay the way a tape does

If Dick Tracy had anticipated this, he would have inspected the VCR tape first before letting Bonnie put it in the player. And he would have well-ventilated the room as well. …

True it would have been much harder to rig a DVD.

Dick Tracy has really fragile windows. It took two guys wielding a battering ram to break mine, and it was already cracked. And it didn’t break much when it finally did break; took them a while to get enough out to put a new window in.

Crimestopper’s Textbook is scraping the barrel. Those fake signs announce that you haven’t got an alarm system.

Good grief! That strikes close to home! In fact, that strikes at home! What a revolting development! Has Tracy had any home improvements done lately (electrical; plumbing; painting: etc.)?

Hope everyone gets clear safely!

If we were trying to kill the Minit Mystery stories by boycotting the comments section, it isn’t working! I think Donnie has saved it.

I think the Tracy family has enough people trying to kill them without Dick pitching in.