Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 21, 2020

But you can attach extensions to bite your neck and suck your blood…

Good morning™, shell game obfuscaters !

At least Prof’s ‘natural’ fangs don’t match the pin prick holes of his prosthetic device. Will “detective” Tracy see or hear something that gets his attention focused on this guy being his perp ?

Detective in quotes since he does so little of it these days.

Good morning™, fans!

Believe it or not, lots of professional fangsmiths exist. Just take a look on Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=fangsmith

Here’s a interview with a woman who says it’s “glamorous”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G98P0bdphzk

Well, that’s…different.

Those would give a helluva sucker bite.

Of course we know what Richard does not.

But the idea that this guy has done this to his face adds a whole new level of “ew” to the story.

Hey, Ray, care to chime in? This is looking a bit like a cosplay here.

Except we know, he’s cos-playing for keeps.

My word-nerdishness can’t get past the notion that the singular vampire enthusiast would be a Nosferatu while collectively they should use the irregular plural form of Nosferati. Thoughts?

Long ago at work at a restaurant, two of my counter girls were discussing vampires.I noticed our tray of plastic white utensils…including forks……discreetly broke off two teeth, inserted them in the appropriate spots in my mouth…..then asked the girl closest, with my head turned away…..“so you don’t believe in vampires?”…..turned to face her…..OH, MY GOD……SOOOO WORTH IT, lol!!!!

They also have breast fetishes. Hence the term “Fangs for the Mammaries”… ;D

Well drawn and colored today, pleasant for a Monday!

Toothy smile!!!

Interesting world Tracy lives in. Girl with antennae interviews man with fangs. Tracy is “so what?”

And sometimes people just naturally have oversized canines, thanks to recessive genes. (No Recessive Gene isn’t a dentist.)

Didn’t see that one coming.

Who’s the actor that Stokes looks like in P2 as if he was the inspiration for him?

Professor Stokes, it now seems, presents himself as more than just a casual hobbyist. Rather, he seems now to be a dedicated fanatic, or an anthropological “participant” observer, not just a detached outsider-observer.

This ought to ramp up Tracy’s suspicion even as it deflects attention from Stokes’s still-secret bloodsucking apparatus. The girls, too, may become more interested than is good for them….

Odd that he would just show Tracy his fangs, which are certain to arouse suspicion.

I’ve heard it said Jonathan Frid could barely talk with his fangs in his mouth.

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1-*DT: We’re here because your suspected of stealing my chick on the side. I MEAN, suspected of killing innocent vampires.

2-THE SHARP TOOTHED INSULT COMIC PROFESSOR: Why would I do that? Look. I like vampires tho much I got my teef fixed like one. Makes me lisp a little. Also, I learned the hard way that I need to warn the babes before they French Kiss me. I should say THEY learned the hard way! SAAA-NAPPPP!

DT: Hang on. Red recently got two tongue studs…

TSTICP: YOU’RE WELCOME! SAAAAA-NAPPPPPPP!

so far I’m liking this story more than any other since I don’t remember…

Fangs are the indication someone is a vampire in fiction and movies. Other than Bela Lugosi’s cape, modern vampire movies often have the vampires in present day clothing. So the only thing really required to cosplay a vampire are the fangs.

This guy’s a nut. He’s a cosplayer who never takes off his costume because he had it permanently put on himself. Tracy is probably sitting there thinking about how many of his cases in the last few years have involved fandom or cosplay in some fashion.

Professor Stokes seems to be doing a good job of negating any possible suspicion that he is the killer.

Umm… I don’t know anyone who thinks vampires suck blood TROUGH their fangs. They puncture the artery and suck out the blood.

A college professor with fangs…not the act of a crazy person at all, and he probably has tenure so the school is stuck stuck with him.

You can see through this guy Tracy! Use your eye teeth!

A Professional Fangsmith??? That’s got to be the world’s narrowest profession!!!

I’m thinking that Stokes is thinking that Tracy is thinking, “Well, if this guy were guilty of anything involving vampires, fangs, etc. , he certainly wouldn’t show me his fangs so casually. He must be the innocent college professor hobbyist dork he claims to be.” It’s a calculated strategy on Stokes’ part, but let’s hope Tracy is smarter than that.

Mike’s on the right track with this story in these ways: We are shown a new villain with an obvious quirk, we see the crime take place (sort of) and we see Tracy begin to investigate. Now, if Mike could just carry those principles into the next story, but give us a villain without a costume, we’d really be getting somewhere.

OK, dude – you’re officially creepy. (Must really hurt when you bite your tongue…)

So the cosmetic fangs wouldn’t work like the real thing or is the professor’s the equivalent of dentures? How does he chew food with those things?

Is it just me, or does Professor Stokes look like Charlie Rose?

So…as of this minute, Stokes is my third favorite “new” tracy villain after Little Doc (2nd) and Abner Kadaver (1st)