Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 03, 2022

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    Brian  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    He sure has a magnetic personality! What? SOMEBODY was going to do that joke.

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    Neil Wick  about 2 years ago

    Good morning™, everyone!

    Back to our story which is really kicking off today. Looks like we have our villain and I think he might be someone new unless you guys have heard of Steelface before.

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    Yngvar Følling  about 2 years ago

    Ah, he’s gotten the Covid-19 vaccine!

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    avenger09  about 2 years ago

    What is that supposed to be in black tie guy’s hand, a glass??

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    Ashmael  about 2 years ago

    And now for something totally different!

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    Ashmael  about 2 years ago

    The name Magneto was already taken…

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    firestrike1  about 2 years ago

    a new bad boy has come to Tracyville, it seems… and his buddy, Gaspar, seems like the typical bar-fly jerkoff…

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    Sporteric11   about 2 years ago

    This looks like a case for Remington Steele Detective Agency !!!

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 2 years ago

    Good morning™, strike forces !

    And wotta strike too !   I’d believe the pull on a skeleton key as some were made of steel. Now that Gas’s date has seen the freak show she will be going home alone.

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    BreathlessMahoney77  about 2 years ago

    And don’t call him Shirley either!

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 2 years ago

    JPuzzleWhiz crossed sites about 2 hours ago

    @Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

    Could you be thinking of Comics.com?

    To my best recollection c.com merged with this one.

    https://blog.kamens.us/2011/06/02/comics-com-has-merged-into-gocomics-com/

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    BigDaveGlass  about 2 years ago

    I think Steelface will be key to this investigation……

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    therese_callahan2002  about 2 years ago

    He probably teamed up with Harley Niav, who hates being called “Putty Puss.”

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Ah Steelface! Metal Man was already taken!

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    GoComicsGo!  about 2 years ago

    Where’s Garage Man? I was promised Garage Man! Where is he?

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    Phantomfire 01  about 2 years ago

    Steelface’s real name is Rusty.

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    richsolano  about 2 years ago

    His partner looks a little pale; Gasper = Casper?

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    crobinson019  about 2 years ago

    A magnetic face might make shaving difficult in the morning

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    Space_cat  about 2 years ago

    It’s magnet mouth, and how is brass a ferrous metal? Unless he is a walking MRI magnet!

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    SKJAM! Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Gaspar is rude when he’s drunk. He should count himself lucky if he leaves the bar in a vertical position.

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    Carl Fink Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Is that the most awkward slap on the comics page? Who slaps from right-to-left, but with his hand vertical like that?

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    Null Island  about 2 years ago

    If he’s magnetic enough to pull keys out of the air, he’ll probably be easy to shoot.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 2 years ago
    I don’t think that any real woman would react to THAT question from a stranger in a bar with “Sure!”
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    timbob2313 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Steelface aka Magneto?

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    artheaded1  about 2 years ago

    Gaspar is rather pale. Is he a “friendly ghost”?

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    William Bednar Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Looks like that shadowy guy has magnetic skin, at least on his face. I would guess it’s genetic in origin.

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    trainnut1956  about 2 years ago

    First panel: Now there is a pickup line that has NEVER worked.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Ahh finally…a George Gould type character……Steel Face!

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    tcayer  about 2 years ago

    Right. Shouldn’t it be “Magnetface?”

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    Another Take  about 2 years ago

    1-GASPAR: This is a 12 ounce bar glass – my huge hands make it look tiny. BETTY: My place or yours?

    2-GASPAR: HEY STEELFACE! I TOLD HER THIS IS THE KEY TO MY HEART AND SHE FELL FOR IT!

    3-STEELFACE: THAT’S MY PICKUP LINE! OOOOOH! I’M SO ANGRY! WHY I OUGHTA…

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    Phantomfire 01  about 2 years ago

    Steelface got that way because of all the heavy metals in his diet. This can serve as a profound philosophical lesson to all…

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    David Rickard Premium Member about 2 years ago

    From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

    This lady at the bar is all of us. She just wants to see something unbelievable, or at least interesting, but instead she gets caught up in an internecine feud between mutant criminal lowlife types. This is why more and more people are abandoning the bar scene for dating apps!

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    Ken in Ohio  about 2 years ago

    O course this is only Day 1, but it looks promising.

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 2 years ago

    Gaspar needs a two drink limit. The lady was so impressed that she shrieked.

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 2 years ago

    Hold the phone…prior to the recent blooper passing as you know what, there was going to be a theater presentation of the Sunday Funnies. How will that relate to today’s action? Oh maybe these three will win sweepstakes tickets to the play.

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    trimguy  about 2 years ago

    At a glance, it appears he has a … magnetic personality

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 2 years ago

    I hope those weren’t Gaspar’s car or house keys, either way he is up the creek without a paddle.

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    Ken in Ohio  about 2 years ago

    Before we get too deeply into this new story, I want to share this with my fellow Tracy-fans:

    I just finished re-reading the last Chester Gould continuity before the introduction of Moon Maid. (The Magnetic Space Coupe had already been featured in several stories, but when Diet Smith took B. O. Plenty and his family to the moon, they complained how empty and barren it was, and B. O. had Diet take them instead to his original birth place in Virginia.)

    The story I want to discuss is about Small Mouth Bass and one Doctor Aorta, who were supplying victims to a female criminal genius for heart transplant experiments. The story ran in the papers in late 1963 – early 1964, three years before the first successful heart transplant in the real world (1967).

    SPOILER ALERT for anyone who has not read this story.

    Tracy is brought into the case when a living, beating heart, inside of a specially constructed container, is found in a bus station locker. Much is made of the fact that the heart is still alive and beating on its own. Then they find a body with the heart removed. They use medical science to prove that the heart is from this victim. There is some excellent real-world detective work and leg work depicted, which eventually leads Tracy and Sam to a car rental garage. They find the limo which picked up the victim for his last ride. But then Gould makes one of the biggest gaffes of his entire run on Tracy. They find that the limo is rigged up to funnel its own exhaust into the passenger compartment, and fingerprints on the inside of the windows prove that the victim took his last ride in this limo. it is stated that the amount of carbon monoxide would certainly have killed him while he was struggling to open a window or get out. Yet this is the victim whose live heart is at the center of the investigation.

    There are a lot of great Tracy-style chase and death trap moments, and the crooks are suitably captured or killed. Please continue in the next comment

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  about 2 years ago

    Don’t call me Shirley.” — Leslie Nielsen

    Stop calling me ‘Sir.’ ” — Peppermint Patty

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    ScottHolman  about 2 years ago

    I like him already.

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    Eric S   about 2 years ago

    Looks like he has a magnetic personality

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    Mostly Water Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Steelface, AKA key caddy. His other cheek is for storing reading glasses.

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    Sisyphos  about 2 years ago

    Swerving to the magnetic beat of what appears to be an entirely new tack (unless this somehow ties in with the Patterson production planned by Vitamin), we meet Gaspar, probably just a disposable foil, though possibly a minion of the apparent New Villain, Steelface (“Don’t call me Steelface!” so reminds me of Flyface!). We don’t yet know his given name nor his game, but he has a neat trick to go with his steely visage. The lady is just a bar pickup extra; I don’t expect to see her again after this scene has played out….

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    clayface9 Premium Member about 2 years ago

    That’s MISTER Steelface to you!

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