Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 08, 2020

Suave Daisy feels he’s living large. Flower in his lapel

Big Yeti sends him on a job. He sent Rabbit to hell.

Misdirected sample must be found, contents obtained

No ethics, code, or scruples. The man won’t be restrained.

Square blue bottle on the shelf when who should step right in?

Dick Tracy, with his badge and gun. A bloodhound’s nose for sin.

Daisy lurks and bides his time. Lets fly a deadly dart

A narrow miss. Reflect on this: the dance has had its start.

Priorities in threads like these to be coiffed and look swell

Daisy must fly! Can’t pass by fresh flower for his lapel.

Good morning™, regained confidence, men !

He’ll be looking like he did when he left the lair and as long as Yeti has not missed his “toy”, all will be fine. He should be hoping Tracy doesn’t go into that shop. Her description or even footage, will surely wilt our foppy dandy Daisy.

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, Tracy has his two clues. Those might be useful. I wonder if he could interview any nearby flower shop owners. Yeti sure is a demanding boss. Still you don’t want to get on his bad side, as Rabbit found out. Truthfully, not a lot happened in today’s strip, but the story is moving along.

Posie lost his flower (and the whole hat) and it led to the undoing of his whole perfume-related crime business. Now Daisy loses his flower . . . .

Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot, so my dapper ensemble must be able to boost my self esteem. I must be a creature of fashion, suave in black, looking trim with a… a… boutonnière!

Daisy’s desperate desire for a dashing dandelion will undoubtedly deal his demise…

Ah yes, it’s the simplest things in life

That addictivly clutch at our throat

And cause us so much strife

A drink, a smoke, a burger with cheese

Then one two three let’s go

It will force us down on our knees

To think a little Daisy

So simple, sweet, and divine

Can cause a savvy criminal

To begin to do hard time

Makes us pause to think

And ponder what’s our crutch

That has its grip so tight

And harms us quite a bunch

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Marrying my daughter today at 2:00pm est. (Don’t worry, I’m licensed in NYC to perform weddings. It’ll be legal)

Gosh I’m nervous!!!

And Dausy’s request for a dozen daisies look like he’ll be spreading red daisies aka red herrings to throw Tracy off…

And to quote Doc Holliday in the movie " Tombstone " : " You ain’t no daisy "

Using the dart gun on Tracy. Dumb.

Replacing his daisy instead of worrying where the original went lost. Dumber.

And Yeti ditched Rabbit because he was dumb?

Then his chauffeur shows up, so it’ll be Driving Mr. Daisy.

Flower Power?

“You’re a daisy if you do!”

Very cool images again today . And in panel three does Tracy’s face look different ?

I’m really enjoying this story. Fast paced, something happening every day, and Tracy is using his skills instead of luck.

That said, I hope Mike is on the mend, and will be back at the keyboard soon.

Congratulations! Be sure to start an album.

Oh, yeah, fella – get a fresh one and make yourself even more obvious to Tracy! (Talk about clumsy, panicky crooks…)

In my city, if you find something on the sidewalk and “it’s still fresh”, you avoid it like the plague. Yuck!

I’m not quite sure if I am understanding. Is Daisy so eager to get another daisy because Yeti is so observant that he would know something was amiss if Daisy returned without a daisy?

If Yeti is so observant, why wouldn’t he have noticed the absence of the dart gun by now?

Hope this isn’t going to be just laughably inept badguys again, like Coney and his Gang That Couldn’t Search Straight….

Slightly off-topic but does anyone else see a facial resemblance to Walter Pidgeon here? I get his Nick Carter in the one panel.

A dozen daisies.. at he will never have to worry about running out of them. Her shop is going a visit from the police along with others to see if she sold any daisies recently.

Well that makes him a bit of an idiot.

Re Avenger..Congrats, but that first sentence had me worried. I thought maybe you were in Utah.

I wonder if Daisy ever saw “Pull My Daisy,” an independent short film circa 1961 based on the 3rd act of a play by Jack Kerouac.

I’m your huckleberry.

(Sorry. Just had to get that line in somewhere after prior references to Tombstone.)

Daisy is one brain cell short of a blithering idiot. First, he bumps into Tracy while in the flower shop; maybe he’s just clumsy. Then, he pauses while in flight to take a dart-gun potshot at Tracy, who was going the other way, and misses; maybe he’s just a poor shot. Then, he drops his boutonnière, his trademark daisy; maybe Daisy’s both clumsy and dumb. -Because then he stops into a nearby florist to buy another-no, a dozen more daisies!

Good grief! If Yeti is not pleased with ineptitude, how long can dapper dandy Daisy be expected to survive as principal henchman?!

Daisy may be a sharp dresser. However, he has already made at least four mistakes. Tracy should wish for more crooks as stupid as Daisy.