Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 30, 2022

Good morning™, everybody!

It seems that Tracy may have traded in a crimefighter for an informant. How did half the the assets of the bank just vanish? I think we have an idea. Apparently, the bank management is trying to keep it covered up. I guess a theft like that might not be good for client confidence if it were widely known.

Tracy’s wearing a brownish shirt to the secret meeting?

I like the look.

A good mistake!!!

Good morning™, crime fighters club members !

A possibility that Louie (CK) will be doing one last job. That and the other banks that had significant sums vanish all at once. FDIC is getting antsy about continuing their coverage.

The tip was just an excuse to put on the outfit again. It’s not like he couldn’t call it in. Unless . . . letters, rooftop meetings? Cinnamon Knight doesn’t own a phone!

Panel 1-Tracy has a superhero look about him!

This will be one of those “Data Breaches” we hear about in the news and in the letters offering a years free identity monitoring

Hacked

“In unrelated news, been nice knowing you. I’m off to my new super crib in Barbados tonight. Or maybe my sprawling ski chalet in Switzerland.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Maybe it’s just inflation affecting the bank and the price of gas to fill the armored cars, plus the bonuses they pay to their executives.

He works at a bank…a teller? Get it a teller!

1-DT: Hi Cinnamon. My favorite stripper is named Cinnamon. I forget if her last name is Buns or Tatas. Are you two related? She’s brown too…

2-CK: SHADDAP! I got a message saying I had to hold up this wall precisely at this time or else it would fall down injuring dozens of innocent people! But I might need your help.

3-DT: Yeah. I got that too. It’s a goof. Somebody is probably nearby laughing their ass off watching you.

CK: Damn! What’s wrong with me?!? I’m so gullible lately. Yesterday a Bank Examiner called me at the bank where I work and asked for my passwords and I gave it to him and now half the bank’s assets have disappeared. I can’t help wonder if that call had something to do with it.

DT: Nah. Coincidence. Say, when the bank reports that and I go in and see you working there, should I pretend not to know you?

CK: How will you know which employee is me?

BOTH: HA HA HA!

Must have been that robbery done at the ATM by the guy wearing glasses which can hypnotize.

Mr. Memory must have figuratively broken the bank. If half the bank’s assets disappeared, FDIC insurance on those accounts are going to max out fast.

“A bank robbery? We never heard of it!” “That’s when crooks put on masks and take all the bank’s money at gunpoint.”

Do you think Cinnamon Knight is having Armour hot dogs today for Memorial Day?!

It must be a rather small, and rather curiously run, bank. Most banks have their assets tied up in loans, such as mortgages, consumer lending or business lending. A bank that had half its assets tied up in cash or other liquid investments that could be siphoned off by a hacker is a bank that’s probably not very competent in managing its assets.

It was all Bitcoin, so it will probably be back if you check tomorrow.

Well, obviously Tracy wouldn’t have heard of it as it would have gone straight to the Feds. Way out of Tracy’s pay grade for a bank robbery of that size. Hope that was a small bank because they hold a heck of a lot of money in bigger ones. Half of that would buy several islands in your favorite latitude.

A “mystery bank robbery” mystery. Probably the bank is trying to keep it quiet for PR and insurance reasons. But Cinnamon Knight (in full vigilante costume, let it be noted) has let Tracy know about it, and we can be sure the MCU will be looking into this.

And was Mr. Memory behind the caper? There is room for suspicion. Sooner or later, likewise, B.O. Plenty’s ability to identify Memory may be brought to bear….

I’m a costumed crime fighter who works at a bank that just got robbed. Yeah, I’m a great crime fighter….

Cinammon’s looking plenty wobbly.He’d better go home and take a nap.

“Gee,I wish something like this would happen every day”

Julie Herrod(the little girl)—WAIT UNTIL DARK—1967