Since Zelda’s not with Tracy and Joe says this isn’t a social call, I’m assuming this is the start of the next story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the two cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
@Boboscar as our resident Dick Tracy historian, (meant affectionately) perhaps you can help answer a question. What was the story arc where Tracy had to deal with a villain who treated life like a video game eventually trapping Tracy in a life sized version of a game called “Lantern Jaw”?
From what I have read based on the comments, the quality of the story telling has depreciated over the years. In the local newspaper of the city I live in, Tracy’s adventures run from Monday to Saturday. Newspaper doesn’t carry the Sunday episodes anymore. GoComics has helped in filling the gap. I said it before and I’ll say it again, I wonder how Bribery was able to make a comeback considering his plunge from an injection tube in the Space Coupe piloted by the Chin Chillars in summer of 1967 through the roof of the prison workshop. If Staton and Curtis can’t get it together in terms of story telling, Dick Tracy will go the way of Orphan Annie. Only thing to rival these bumpy storylines are the way two current soap operas, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful are written…bad as in lousy.
I thought that when a detective says to someone he knows “I wish this was a social visit” meant that you are (or have been) investigated, and the next thing the detective will say is “I’m arresting you for …”
Neil Wick almost 6 years ago
Good morning™, fellow detectives!
So, no socializing on this visit?
AnyFace almost 6 years ago
Dang, I was hoping for Joe Mannix. ✨
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 6 years ago
Professionals meeting not exactly friends.
HarryCK almost 6 years ago
Good morning™, colleagues !
We wont be quaffing brews and talking about good times, I’m afraid.
22ph almost 6 years ago
Looking for the kidnapped sportswriter?
boboscar almost 6 years ago
Since Zelda’s not with Tracy and Joe says this isn’t a social call, I’m assuming this is the start of the next story. When I’ve decided a new story’s started, I do a list of every Tracy story on GoComics. Unfortunately, soon after I started doing this GC imposed a stupid, asinine character limit of only 2000 characters which includes every letter, space, punctuation, & html, which means I have to do this over several posts. I’ll do my initial introduction in this post and start the list in the next one, because otherwise, I can’t even get past the second year.
My notes are fairly simple. Just my name for the story (usually the name of the main villain or villains, unless they just aren’t the emphasis) followed by the dates the story began and ended. If someone was the main villain for more than one story, I add a “II” and so on to emphasize this. If more than one villain from a past story are in the same story committing major crimes, I include them altogether. Finally, for the two cases of more than one villain with the same name (Chameleon, Mr. Crime) I add, “The Second” in front of their names.
Minit Mysteries Note: at the request of people who wanted to see these listed here, I’ve decided to make a separate post for them to keep the listing of Mike Curtis stories in as few posts as possible.
At the start of the GoComics archive, the writer was the late Mike Kilian. Personally, I like his work on Tracy and think he’s very underrated. At the very least, he knew how to tell a story in the daily strip format where every day, something happens that moves the story along, a quality his successor sorely lacked. I recommend anyone here who hasn’t read these stories to check them out.
TBC cuz GC decided to suck now
iggyman almost 6 years ago
What transpired with Zelda? I guess back into the play?
michaeljwolff almost 6 years ago
Should I know the guy in the background who’s wearing the hat?
tripwire45 almost 6 years ago
Had to look him up: https://dicktracy.fandom.com/wiki/Joe_Sampson
dewcoons almost 6 years ago
Joe Sampson is an Indian detective who use to date Bonnie Tracy at one point. Was involved in a story that included the birth of Tracy’s son Joe.
jrankin1959 almost 6 years ago
“I learned everything from you, Tracy – my jaw’s not razor-sharp like yours yet, but I’m getting there…”
Ken in Ohio almost 6 years ago
Looking back at examples of Joe Sampson as drawn by Rick Fletcher, our Joe (Staton) has toned down the similarity to Tracy.
micromos almost 6 years ago
Why?
kantuck-nadie almost 6 years ago
Very cool! I havent’ seen him since the punks storyline and Joe being born
h.v.greenman almost 6 years ago
@Boboscar as our resident Dick Tracy historian, (meant affectionately) perhaps you can help answer a question. What was the story arc where Tracy had to deal with a villain who treated life like a video game eventually trapping Tracy in a life sized version of a game called “Lantern Jaw”?
Doug A4 almost 6 years ago
This Boboscar guy should know that this forum is not a place for his attempt at the “Great American Novel”.
IvanB.Cohen almost 6 years ago
From what I have read based on the comments, the quality of the story telling has depreciated over the years. In the local newspaper of the city I live in, Tracy’s adventures run from Monday to Saturday. Newspaper doesn’t carry the Sunday episodes anymore. GoComics has helped in filling the gap. I said it before and I’ll say it again, I wonder how Bribery was able to make a comeback considering his plunge from an injection tube in the Space Coupe piloted by the Chin Chillars in summer of 1967 through the roof of the prison workshop. If Staton and Curtis can’t get it together in terms of story telling, Dick Tracy will go the way of Orphan Annie. Only thing to rival these bumpy storylines are the way two current soap operas, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful are written…bad as in lousy.
Lyons Group, Inc. almost 6 years ago
Good Afternoon™, Not So Social Climbers
Always a start to any story: “I wish this was a social visit".
Sisyphos almost 6 years ago
One big panel of detective close-ups allows us to compare for ourselves how much Joe Sampson does or does not resemble Dick Tracy.
But this reunion is all business from now on!
oakie817 almost 6 years ago
I thank gocomics for their magnificent lineup, nothing is without flaw
JastMe almost 6 years ago
I thought that when a detective says to someone he knows “I wish this was a social visit” meant that you are (or have been) investigated, and the next thing the detective will say is “I’m arresting you for …”