Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 14, 2019

Good morning™, friends of Trixie’s husband!

If Trixie hasn’t been declared dead, she could still show up.

Good morning™, piddly tinklers !

I hope the Smokelator™ doesn’t blow a gasket. It sure is getting a workout from the merciless mouth of scratchface.

Trixie Trinkle has had an intentional accident — Warbucks pushed her off the ship :)

So, what’s “…a the photo…”?

She’s only gone for a tinkle, Weeeeell someone had to go for the obvious gag….

She turned into a mermaid? Or did she go Native in Tahiti?

Mr. Clean seems a to have a stuttering a problem.

Does a anyone proofread a anymore?

Either that or the aaaaa key gets stuck on the typewriter!

Start timing how long this post lives! LOL!

“Must be a slow boat to China???”

She disappeared in 1932… No surprise the police have lost the sworn statement. Wonder how she knew about B-B Eyes crimes… Let’s hope when Dick Tracy finds her that she’ll have lost the urge to eliminate Annie and be a kinder and gentler Trixie Tinkle.

Trixie and her husband didn’t book a “three hour tour” on the SS Minnow-did they?

She didn’t return but the husband did?

Lex Luthor makes a guest appearance!

Alt Script: 1- BB: I have to give it to ya Kleen, when you commit to a color, you really commit. 2- KLEEN: It’s true. Check this out. Even my paper is white. 3- BB: Yeah, well that’s kind of a thing about paper. But this white ink is taking things too far. What the hellz this say?? KLEEN: Not sure. It’s either my grocery list or my bill to you for services rendered. Just take care of it either way would ya?

So from what I’ve read on the Internet, the disappearance of Trixie was never resolved in the Little Orphan Annie strip – so here’s Team Tracy’s opportunity to use the Annie characters again! (I’m hoping to see how Annie gets along with Honeymoon’s new best pal, the not-Ugly Crystal.)

Dick Tracy has cleaned up all of the crime in his own comic strip and now has to solve the mysteries in other comic strips.

Is it my imagination or does the inking seem to consist of thicker, bolder outlines than usual?

Well, like B.B., Ms. Tinkle is only pushing 90 years old, so why not another rip-off crossover?

After 7 years one can be legally declared dead!

Sigh, Tim Conway has left us. This saddens me tremendously. Grew up laughing with and at Tim.

“Thanks for making my day a little bit funnier.”

ok, I go fishing for a week and this strip has “sho gon crazy”. Mr. Clean is Daddy Warbucks? BB eyes is Scratch Face? Trixie Tinkle is Little Orphan Annie? Is this some kind of a time warp crossover? My head is spinning. Can any one explain this Twilight Zone story?

More than a little confusing here … Tixie Tinkle was apparently a main witness to B.B. Eye’s crime, … but disappeared years ago? That means the crime must have occurred years ago as well. Why wasn’t the trial held then, before she disappeared? Have the charges just been left hanging all these years? Has BB Eyes been out on bail all these years? Why is all of this just coming to light now? Does any of this make sense, other than Joe & Mike apparently wanted to do an Orphan Annie cross-over?

I’m feeling very dense today. Why does a photo of the missing Trixie and her hubby on a cruise from which she never returned (panel 3) “prove” that it’s unlikely she will ever be declared deceased, as the esteemed Wise Guy barrister-in-white proclaims (panel 2)? I would have thought the photo would, if not prove, at least suggest the exact opposite. And, besides, as several Commenters above have noted, generally after seven years disappearance one is usually (?) declared officially dead….

“here’s a the photo”? a grammatically correct Italian accent?