Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 01, 2022

Good morning™, everybody!

Apparently, it’s not Ape and Ferret, but some guy with a cane and his taller companion. I won’t say more.

Good morning™, mystery guests !

The one looks like Sam. Is that Ferret to his right ? Could this be Daisy with a Sam type hat and if so who is the dame ?

I think we recognize that chapeau.

March 1st error alert!!!

Yeti’s glasses changed shape!

Tune in tomorrow for the latest error news!

In panel 2, the person on the right looks kinda like Sam, except not really (why would Sam be holding a cane or what looks like a cane? And what’s with the sidewhiskers?) The person on the left looks nothing like Tracy, and if anything, resembles a woman.

Great use of silhouettes by Pleger.

Looks like we’re about to find out who murdered Moran. The rose petals at the scene of the crime belong to the gentleman I bet, probably Daisy. And the shoe print belongs to the lady whoever she is. Great cross-hatching work by Pleger on that second panel!

Ohhhh…the mystery woman could be Yeti’s ex-wife. That would make a lot of sense.

I expect the speaker is Daisy, who now needs a cane due to whatever he broke when he fell in his last appearance. If the apparently female figure isn’t a new character, there are several tall homicidal women who aren’t proven dead. An interesting, but unlikely, option would be Doc Olga, the bootleg-heart-transplanting surgeon from 1963, who would have the skills to treat Daisy’s injury.

Is that BB Eyes?

It’s mighty cold in that sewer system….

It’s raining now. They’re all in a storm sewer. I think we all know what could happen…!

Back on February 9th we were shown some rose petals on the ground outside Moran’s mansion and I half-jokingly surmised:

“Hmmm… perhaps Daisy has a sibling named Rose that is executing an elaborate vendetta against the man who left him to die.”

I think we have Daisy and Rose stopping by to reminisce, but it isn’t for a garden party — even though Ape, Ferret, Sam, and Tracy will soon all be there. Daisy learned his lesson well: he could never please Yeti so he and Rose set about to please themselves…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PECmjB9df0w

I think the story might end very soon. Yeti, Ape and Ferret are there. So is Daisy and his lady killer, Rose. And then Tracy, Sam and the cavalry are coming for the roundup. Unless Mark Barnard stretched this a bit, this story will end this weekend.

How did those two knew where Yeti is? Ape and Ferret might have made some coins…

Pretty cool! Mark and Shelley are inspired!

Very slick visuals by Shelley, here!

No, he’s on first. This one self-identifies as ‘Me’.

Very sharp graphics today!

Looks like a gang war

Yeti, Yeti, Yeti. You know the rule. Shoot first. Ask questions later.

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition, Yeti!

(impatient sigh) No, Who’s on FIRST! Give up the dream of standup, Yeti.

I notice some color detail was removed from a figure in the middle panel.

Okay, just in case Mark is throwing us a devious curve, my alternate pick for the mystery man is…. the elderly curator of the museum that held the $1,000,000 meteorite which Yeti stole and lost. Embittered over being fired when the rock was never recovered, he and his faithful nurse/companion are now wreaking a terrible vengeance!

No? Then how about Young Mr. Grace? Old Mr. Grace??

The hat looks like Sam’s, but that person seems to be leaning on a cane – and the person next to them. I doubt that it’s Sam. The other person is clearly female, but looks kind of tall to be Ferret.

So many people converging on Yeti’s hideout in the sewer. Tracy and Sam are going to need backup.

1-AL: Ape! Ferret! Get in here so I can kill one of you!

2-???: My goodness! And we thought New Yorkers were rude! Please don’t shoot! We’re just a couple of tourists from across the pond. The Walking Tracyville Tour Map directed us here to see a real, live Yeti. Is this the right place, old chap?

3-AL: I’m a tourist destination now??? UMMMM, that’ll be, uh, five bucks admission…?

???: Do you accept Euros?

AL: Huh? Euros? Sure. And Asians, Africans, Spaniards – anybody with five bucks.

Must have gotten chilly down there all of a sudden….one can see the breaths coming out of their mouths.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You’re a blackmailer,aren’t you?That’s a very naughty,naughty thing to be!”

Alastair Sim—Hitchcock’s STAGE FRIGHT—1950

SOMEBODy’S going to end up as morgue bait.

And going back to Rughead’s demise,look out for ricochet bullets.Sewer walls are concrete.

that’s not Dick and Sam. Unless Dick suddenly got very thin in the hips

Good time for a knock-knock joke?……..

Who is?

Maybe Inspector Ivanova(sic?) would like to defect to Tracy;considering current events.

SPOILER: The intruders tomorrow are revealed as ace science guy Clyde Crashcup and Carmen SanDiego! But there, I’ve said too much.

“Is that you Daisy? Good, good. I can skip the new employee orientation session. We’ll just reinstate you with a small docking of your salary for being a month late.”

he’s on first

Be dang. Played with the contrast, and the faces showed right up, along with my old skate key.

Best bet is that the stooped character in a hat and leaning on a cane is, as numerous posters have commented, Daisy Dugan. Who his taller, female companion might be is less clear; maybe fictitious “Rose Dugan” will turn out to be real; otherwise, some other villainess will have to appear. Daisy was injured in his sewer mishap, hence the cane.

Yeti (panel 3) knows who it is, but is flabbergasted at Daisy’s unexpected reappearance, alive and probably in the mood for revenge.

The storm drain is getting crowded, with Yeti, big Ape and Ferret, Daisy and “Rose,” and Tracy and Sam all converging. The showdown could become quite a melee, with some of the combatants taking out others before (as is inevitable) Tracy and Sam ultimately prevail….