Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 10, 2022

Good morning™, everyone!

The lesson to be learned today: Never go speeding the wrong way into a one-way alley to avoid police. Driving into that big transport truck is as good as driving into a wall! Luckily, the fancy car seems to have strong brakes. Screee! Do you think he stopped in time?

“How did he die?”

“A steel plate was driven into his forehead.”

“Again?”

Good morning™, recently deceased !

He may have stopped in time but don’t count on the big rig stopping as well. Don’t reckon Steel mug will be chasing his radio thief down which means that Robert’s brief foray back into his old “profession” will remain unknown to MCU and he gets to go straight and ascend into the land of many lime lights.

Will that plate in his head save him, or require an additional one to survive.

Not quite sure why Steelface took evasive action … after all, the police would be focused on getting to the chop shop & raiding it as quickly as possible, & wouldn’t pay any attention to a passing car on the street … unless the driver of said car did something suspicious … like drive the wrong way down a one-way alley. Unless Mike is heading into another rushed ending. Again.

SIGHHere we go again!

Team Tracy is consistent,, to a fault.

Interesting that fear removes most of the ball bearings from steelwools face.

Another case solved by the amazing detective Dick Tracy!

Good thing his chop shop is also a body shop because he definitely is going to need it !!!

Oh darn…Sam won’t get his man. Phone Boston…file on Steelface can be closed.

What is to stop someone at the shop from snitching on Robert? Person will be looking to make a deal. Robert could throw himself on the mercy of the court.

Noo! Don’t crash the Aston!

Steely is going the wrong way in a one-way alley, will he stop in time? Is this Steely’s demise? Tune in tomorrow, same Tracy time, same Tracy comic!

Okay, I didn’t see that coming.

But, really, I should have; this is Dick Tracy, after all.

He will now be known as Steelrestofbody.

You shouldn’t laugh out loud at a head-on collision with a truck, yet here we are.

smart move steelface, hope thee other guys breaks works as well as yours.

Ol’ Steelpuss would probably claim he was only GOING one way>>if he survives!

Well, that’s ONE car that’s going back to the shop.

Sooo, is he attracting the truck?

And there goes a perfectly good Mustang on a disposable criminal…

“Safelite Repair, Safelite Your Face…” LMAO…

If The Face of Steel survives, he may have made the plate permanent, bone fragments to the frontal cortex notwithstanding.

1-STEELY: COPS! PIGS! THE FUZZ! My only hope is that they think the glint off my steel plate is the glint off mirrored shades!

2-OH. I can zip down this alley!

3-DARN THIS 0 TO 140 IN 1 SECOND MUSTANG! I WAS ONLY GOING 20 WHEN I TURNED IN HERE! I SHOULDN’T HAVE MASHED THE ACCELERATOR! I’LL SUE FORD INTO OBLIVIAN FOR PUTTING IRRESPONSIBLE MACHINES LIKE THIS ON THE STREET! Boy, a lot of thoughts flash through your mind just before certain but unexpected death. I wonder what became of that dam Wrist Wizard. Hang on! Robert was in the office just before it AIIIIEEEEEEEE!

Dangit!

MOVIE QUOTE—

“There’s too much reading around here and I don’t like it!”

Prison Warden—MUTINY IN THE BIG HOUSE—1939(A VERY obscure film)

I’m flashing back to one of the early Collins stories and how an arsonist named Torcher got his—-zooming downa dead end alley at 90PER.

Will they be drawing the actual crash,or will the bluenoses from Noseintheair County object?

Ah,well—-Lofty,Upside&Downside can take over what’sleft.They didn’t kill anybody so they’re probably out by now.

Steelface has just been “trashed” by a garbage truck. @neil wick

Another 3-day Holiday.I keep track on my work computer so you won’t be hearing from me until Monday the 14th.

DOn’t use “The Jaws Of Life” on Steelface until you hear from me.

And drink your skim milk so you’ll grow up big and strong like Oodles.

Oh,yeah—-I think the first panel is the only time we’ve seen Steel in profile,and he looks much more“Frankensteinish”.

Eleanor?

The question is, is that rectangle that says “ONE WAY ALLEY” an actual sign, or a note for us?

He ducked back down the alley With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl?

Uh-oh! Wrong way, Arceneaux!

This is either a scary Close Encounter, or that truck is gonna squash the Mustang and maybe Steelface with it!

Could this be the end of Steelface and his car theft racket?

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