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

Good morning™, crime scene investigators!

LOL at Vitamin drinking coffee to calm himself down. So, we can finally say with certainty that we are dealing with cocaine. I have no idea what Tracy means by stepping on it. Do any of you know?

Good morning™, after hours partiers !

I wonder if any of this powder will be “subtracted” from evidence ?

Vitamin, if you drink too much of that coffee, you’ll need a B6 vitamin supplement.

Let’s see if Doc is a bumbling idiot….if he comes on strong looking for that Thermos, his goose will be cooked.

Regardless, I’m thinking the delivery man won’t suffer much longer from the flu since he’s soon to die of lead poisoning.

Where’s the guy with the fly satellites? He flew away?

Now the plan to find out who is the owner of the cocaine!!! Will they interview everyone who works at the Playhouse? Or set-up a bust?

Double Up isn’t going to be happy someone impugned his hero the Scarlet Sting, Scarlet Sting

My wife always has a candy cane sticking out of her mouth, Richard… somehow I like black coffee more these days.

1- TRACY: Careful with that Chinese Stud Powder. If it works on Sugar Daddy here, it might just blow your pants off if you inhaled any. 2- SUGAR DADDY: How’d you find out about it Tracy? 3- TRACY: A gang member from the Four Deuce called about a young girl with ridiculous-looking hair trying to sell the stuff on one of their corners. She was gone when we got there but she had told them all about it. Not very bright, that one. SUGAR DADDY: No indeed. I wonder who it could’ve been…

Gee, Neil doesn’t know everything. “Stepping on it” means cutting the contraband (Coke, Heroin Etc.) with another white powdery substance like baking soda to make the “product” last longer. There have been egregious occasions when pure stuff was “cut” with poison, and the inevitable deaths resulted.

What a great era of Tracy we have here. compelling stories & Joe Staton knocks it out of the park with his illustrations every single day.

“LOL at Vitamin drinking coffee to calm himself down. "

My wife’s a touch ADHD – she’ll drink a quart of strong coffee to put herself to sleep. What’s a stimulant to most is a sedative to the hyperactive – and vice versa.

Myself, I view people being hyperactive as a heck of an asset if they make use of it as they could. Some days I wish I were.

He’s talking about adding cheap stuff like powdered SUGAR to it to ‘stretch’ the doses they can sell.

Live and learn! Today it is shown definitively that I was wrong! In this case, “snow” is not heroin, as I kept proposing, but cocaine (as many others thought). Ah, well; at least it’s the pure stuff, not stepped on, as the two Crime Scene technicians have determined.

Tracy and Vitamin engage in some mostly light banter, but there is a serious edge to Vitamin’s concern for what went down and now will go down at his playhouse/theatre. Tracy and his MCU team will want to question everyone who may have had access that day—starting, I suppose, with Mrs. Flintheart! Eventually they will probably work their way around to Mitchell the Flu-ridden Mule, and that will break the case open.

—That is, if Little Doc hasn’t done something dramatic beforehand!

TRACY: To find the owner of this thermos, we need an expert on Scarlet Sting fandom…Get me Doubleup! Doubleup! :)