Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 24, 2019

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    Pequod  almost 5 years ago

    Splitface unloads. A bomb explodes. Concussive the results

    Shake off the dust. Adjust to rust. Detectives know tumults.

    Smoke, it clears. Then who appears? Steve Roper and Mike Nomad

    Sam and Tracy are gob smacked. To see old friends they’re so glad.

    Journalist and tough guy. These two game for exploration

    Comic magic brings ‘em back. Fans shout out exhortation.

    Such a thrill in Tracyville. Splitface, he fails and how

    Steve and Mike were older once. They’re younger than that now.

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago
    Now ’that,’ I truly did not expect~!! ✨❤️✨
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    avenger09  almost 5 years ago

    Sigh

    Sense of it all

    None of it makes

    Why

    To know they’d be there

    A psychic it’d take

    Lie

    That close to a bomb

    Would be a mistake

    Bye

    Both should be dead

    This truth is a fake

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    Never a dull moment in the land of recycling.

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    Neil Wick  almost 5 years ago

    Good morning™, strip historians!

    Steve Roper and Mike Nomad ran under various titles from 1936 until 2004. It had various distributors also, ending up at King Features Syndicate, but was never a Tribune property.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad

    Nomad was in the detective business in the end.

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago

    So, how did Mike & Joe secure the rights? ✨

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    22ph  almost 5 years ago

    Their coats and hats might have a Kevlar lining

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    HarryCK  almost 5 years ago

    Good morning™, psychic bomb placers !

    The guest names sound vaguely familiar though I can’t remember when I have actually read the strip. I find the set up for the introduction of these two characters to be most contrived. Ah well.. As a free member who am I to complain but to enjoy what comes next.

    These two men, coming out of the mists of time, look like spirits. Will we eventually see Sam and Tracy coming out of a coma surrounded by family and coworkers who are so thankful that the worst damage they suffered was only a nasty concussion ?

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago

    Joe’s Sunday inks really give a sense of the William Overgard run. ✨❤️✨

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago

    Oddly, Steve Roper essentially vacated his own strip for a dozen or so years, bequeathing its space on the newspaper page to artist William Overgard’s creation, Mike Nomad. ✨

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    BrendaStefka  almost 5 years ago

    Can’t believe that they are bringing back Steve Roper and his sidekick friend Mike Nomad. Steve Roper was my favorite comic strip before they decided to stop running it. Towards the end, it was mainly the adventures of Mike Nomad. Wonder how they plan to work these two into the story line. Steve Roper was a reporter and later the one in charge. Mike Nomad held many jobs such as a truck driver who later became more of a private detective.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Where’s Chief Wahoo?

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    fredville  almost 5 years ago

    Mike “hey joker” Nomad…..allll right!!!

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    fredville  almost 5 years ago

    So they detonate the bomb without them in the car??? Ummmmm…….

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  almost 5 years ago

    Holy way back when, Batman! I haven’t seen those two in ages! (since the early 90’s)

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    michaeljwolff  almost 5 years ago

    Now if Ma Jong shows up, I’m definitely along for the ride.

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    Gent  almost 5 years ago

    Wow! I recall Mike Nomad and Steve Roper! Some of their comics used to appear in the Indrajal Comics series by the Times of India publication (which also featured Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon, Rip Kirby, Buzz Sawyer, Kerry Drake, Garth, Phil Corrigan, and a couple of Bruce Lee Comics plus some Indian features and an Indian hero called Bahadur). The western comics were reprints of the original comic strips in a comic book format.

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    All I can think of is “Mike Gonads”, an unprintable-languaged parody appearing in a “Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers” comic strip involving a bomb in a bucket of water…

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 5 years ago

    Now here’s a crossover I never saw coming.

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    Judge Magney  almost 5 years ago

    Meanwhile, back at high school, Honey and Crystal meet recent transfer students the Jackson Twins.

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    Gent  almost 5 years ago

    What next, Rip Kirby teams up with Dick Tracy?

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    jrankin1959  almost 5 years ago

    Splitface, Splitface, Splitface – how many times do I have to tell ya? Wait until they’re inside the car to set off the bomb! Now, not only are they still alive, they’re ticked off…

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    MarcWillman  almost 5 years ago

    It’s great to see Steve Roper and Mike Nomad in the strip.

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    Knightman Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Car go BOOM!!!

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    iggyman  almost 5 years ago

    I am kind of in the Twilight Zone now, I will have to “stay tuned”!

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    Russell Bedford  almost 5 years ago

    I really miss Steve Roper & Mike Nomad…well written strips that kept you coming back for more.

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    ralphcor  almost 5 years ago

    Looks nothing like Steve Roper

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    Another Take  almost 5 years ago

    1-This looks like a nice place to stay, Honey.

    2-BA-BOOM-O!

    3-DT: SAM! SAM! I told you to wait till I got a couple blocks away.

    4-YOO HOO! Do you fellas need help.

    DT: Oh no. A stupid question like that could only come from…

    SAM: Ugh. Who burned dinner? Anybody else feel hot? Where am I?

    5-DT: …CAPTAIN OBLIVIOUS AND HIS PAL CLUELESS BOY! Do we need help? What makes you think so? Sam’s charred face? The wrecked cars? THE FREAKIN’ EXPLOSION?

    CAPTAIN OBLIVIOUS: Huh? I meant with your bags. We work here part-time now. Welcome to The Siam where the elite meet for meat and like, other stuff on the menu…

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    tcayer  almost 5 years ago

    I guess they needed more dynamite!

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    tripwire45  almost 5 years ago

    Well, this got interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Roper_and_Mike_Nomad

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    Durak Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    That’s ONE.

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    Constantine500  almost 5 years ago

    My dad used to cut out the Boston Herald Sunday strips for Steve Roper & Mike Nomad. Think there’s still some tucked away in his old desk. I’ll have to check when I swing by on Thanksgiving.

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    Constantine500  almost 5 years ago

    Does anyone know the dates of the 80’s storyline in which Mike Nomad got involved w/ stunt crew on film? Older stuntman got killed in a motorcycle stunt, veered off cliff when explosive charges set too close to his path? The silent Sunday panel of the older stuntman literally launched into open air has always stuck in my memory.

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    Don Bagert Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Okay, I have to admit that Roper and Nomad are a “large” surprise, as Mike Curtis put it. My memories of the strip are from the Mike Nomad days, with Roper only an occasional guest star.

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    Ray Toler  almost 5 years ago

    Roper and Nomad seem awfully calm after their car just blew up next to them. Perhaps they are invulnerable. How did Splitface know they were all going to be there at the same time coinciding with his easy escape from high security?

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    ridenslide65  almost 5 years ago

    This is a bit ridiculous. Not even a scratch…

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  almost 5 years ago

    so no one was blown up?

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    Mark Jeffrey Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    I wonder if the Siam has some kind of magical protection around it that limited the explosion to some extent? We know who lives there after all, and he’s a pretty careful guy.

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    Dan Tooker  almost 5 years ago

    Deus ex machina!

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    Kip W  almost 5 years ago

    I hope Rudy shows up as well. I mean the talking bonobo chimp. I MEAN THE COMIC.

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago
    If you reread yesterday’s strip, it becomes more obvious that the bomb was triggered prematurely, out of overeagerness on Splitface’s part. ✨
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    Darryl Heine  almost 5 years ago

    The return of Steve Roper and Mike Nomad! I haven’t seen them in my local newspaper comics pages/section (Chicago Sun-Times) since January 1985!

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    AnyFace  almost 5 years ago

    Joe seems to be basing his iteration of Steve Roper on this period of the strip’s run, more or less …

    https://images.app.goo.gl/DDWxn5wK9LbZdq1y5

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    Durak Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    Clearly the Hotel Siam is a nexus, linking countless cartoon universes together.

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    buckman-j  almost 5 years ago

    Steve Roper was a good strip for 15 years or more with Gould type villains like Kerry Drake’s. Once it became Mike Nomad it got a little soapy. Now a warmed over crossover, sigh.

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    dsjwriter  almost 5 years ago

    Perhaps Roper and Nomad can be infused with personalities that defy detection in their home universe.

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    dwkiser28603  almost 5 years ago

    Can we just bring Brenda Starr in and get it over with? Or maybe include Captain Easy with Wash Tubbs,Juliet Jones and Dondi?

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    Sisyphos  almost 5 years ago

    Back in the day, we were mainly a Tribune-reading family (in Chicago), as it was the biggest paper, and the Daily News in the afternoons; but over at my aunt and uncle’s house where we visited very frequently (at least once a week, sometimes more), all four dailies were available—uncle was an editor on Printer’s Row, so magazines and newspapers were abundant there (morning Tribune and rival Sun-Times, afternoon Daily News and Hearst’s Herald-American, later bought by Tribune and renamed Chicago’s American). Steve Roper ran in the Sun-Times, and I read it sporadically only; mostly what I remember is that Mike Nomad pretty much took over the lead rôle in the period I read the strip.

    Here, it is a surprise, but I suppose necessary, that Tracy knows Roper and Nomad, and vice versa. What brings Roper and Nomad to the Siam in Tracyville is unclear still. I guess we’ll find out gradually.

    Too bad for Splitface that he is such an amateur car bomber! Try, try again, Bad Guy….

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    Andylit Premium Member almost 5 years ago

    They have to be close to 100 years old by now. I wonder if they are taking Ka-Zowie Kure-All.

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    BreathlessMahoney77  almost 5 years ago

    Another trip to the newspaper comic strip museum of extinct characters. Sigh…

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    tsull2121  almost 5 years ago

    No idea who these two are

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    Counterpoint  almost 5 years ago

    12:30 am and more comments (190) on Dick Tracy than Luann (186) – amazing!

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    sjsczurek  almost 5 years ago

    Steve Roper and Mike Nomad. Now there are two comic strip characters I really miss.

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    Civanfan  about 3 years ago

    “GHOSTS! I’m in the afterlife!”

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