Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 25, 2022

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    Brian  Premium Member about 2 years ago

    Kind of looks a lot like Christmas every day at the South Pole. Er, I mean, undisclosed location.

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    avenger09  about 2 years ago

    Crime in the city

    It’s really such a pity

    We shake our heads in such deep despair

    Too many are abused

    And feelings are misused

    It always feels like no one really cares

    Tracy and the team

    Despite how grim it seems

    Will always work to solve every case

    They’re always on the look

    To lock up every crook

    Determination written on each face

    Yet on this Christmas day

    It’s neglectful not to say

    There’s only one who saves us all within

    Baby Jesus on this day

    Came down to show the way

    To love us and forgive us of our sin

    The greatest gift this day

    Is the love that comes our way

    When we let Him in our hearts and in our life

    Christmas cheers to you all

    Be filled with joy and not with woe

    On this day that honors baby Jesus Christ.

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    Neil Wick  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas™ to all!

    Have we ever seen a map of Tracy’s city before? It’s very interesting. It seems to have a couple of rivers running through it.

    As for Paul, Sue, and Art, they only think they are three kings. Tracy will never let them succeed with their plan.

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    boboscar  about 2 years ago

    Christmas on Sunday is a special time for two distinct groups, Christians and newspaper comic strips. For Christians, it’s a day where you don’t just unwrap presents under the tree, but you also go to Church (unusual for Churches that don’t normally have a service on Christmas Day). Sunday comic strips are always bigger and more elaborate than dailies, so anytime Christmas Day falls on a Sunday, the Christmas Day strip will be bigger, more elaborate than a Christmas Day daily would be.

    When I got the first Volume of IDW’s Tracy reprints, I noticed the 1932 Christmas Day strip was a Sunday strip. This piqued my interest since I already knew that it was a 1949 Christmas Sunday strip that revealed Tracy & Tess were married, and that a 1977 Christmas Sunday strip was Gould’s last regular strip. I wondered, how often does Christmas fall on a Sunday?The way to find out how often any day of the year falls on the same weekday is simple, if painstaking enough. With each year, a day in the year will fall on one weekday later than it did the year before, unless it’s a leap year, then the day will be two weekdays later. I discovered that there’s a consistent cycle to how often Christmas falls on Sunday (if this bores you, skip my reply where I discuss the cycle).

    The first Tracy Christmas Sunday strip was 1932

    33:M, 34:Tu, 35:W, 36:F, 37:Sa

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1938

    39:M, 40:W, 41:Th, 42:F, 43:Sa, 44:M, 45:Tu, 46:W, 47:Th, 48:Sa

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1949

    50:M, 51:Tu, 52:Th, 53:F, 54:Sa

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1955

    56:Tu, 57:W, 58:Th, 59:F, 60

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1960

    61:M, 62:Tu, 63:W, 64:F, 65:Sa

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1966

    67:M, 68:W, 69:Th, 70:F, 71:Sa, 72:M, 73:Tu, 74:W, 75:Th, 76:Sa

    The next Christmas Sunday was 1977

    tbc

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    BreathlessMahoney77  about 2 years ago

    “Do you hear what I hear?” I hear Christmas greetings from the Tracy team, & all Dick Tracy fans replying in kind. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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    Johnny Q Premium Member about 2 years ago

    “Someone hurts themselves” is a solecism! (I’m the Dick Tracy of the Grammar Police…)

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    GoComicsGo!  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas to all.

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    GoComicsGo!  about 2 years ago

    A bit disappointed that it wasn’t Blaze and Lee together in that panel.

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

    Merry Christmas™, MCU armchair detectives auxiliary and to the DT strip creative team !

    Good Crime Stoppers tip.

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    blunebottle  about 2 years ago

    Glad to see they put in the letterbox to tell us the phone wasn’t ringing.

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    blunebottle  about 2 years ago

    Christmas Greetings and prayers for peace to all.

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    BigDaveGlass  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas every one, peace to all…..

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    crobinson019  about 2 years ago

    “Then Pealed the Bells more loud and deep, God is not dead, nor doth he sleep.The Wrong shall fail, the right prevailWith peace on Earth; Good Will to men….”

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    iggyman  about 2 years ago

    Thank you, Mike and Shelly, for today’s strip, looking forward to your future ones!

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    Chris  about 2 years ago

    everyone in Dick Tracy comic is celebrating Christmas, in they’re own way.

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    markwillman4  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday Ho Ho’s to our Armchair Detectives here and everywhere! May today bring you love, peace and joy.

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    DaleMcNamee  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas to Mike, Shelley, Shane, Walt and to all of the readers !

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    orbenjawell Premium Member about 2 years ago

    ….suddenly I’m thinking of that Christmas “truce” back in 1914………

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    Lafsalot  about 2 years ago

    We wish you would write a plot line, we wish you would write a plot line, we wish…

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    CRUUNER  about 2 years ago

    What are Tracy and Chiefy doing stuck at PDHQ on Christmas Eve??

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    WilliamVollmer  about 2 years ago

    The Lunarians celebrate the Terran holiday of Christmas? Or, is it the Lunararian Ambassador/Governor is missing his granddaughter?

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    gobbledygook  about 2 years ago

    The only crime is that chick w/the pencil-thin mustache. Art is very good on this strip, I like to think it’s all penciled, inked and colored on paper.

    I only started reading Dick Tracy this year & I’m still at a loss at just who the characters all are and their relations to each other.

    Whatever happened to that bunny that scurried away from Tracy a month ago? I thought the chase was on but after that one strip, no bunny, just a lot of gender-bending hi-jinks and a lot of yammer about fake animation cells.

    Merry Xmas, ya rascals.

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    Wichita1.0  about 2 years ago

    OOhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…Grandma got run over by a reindeer…….

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    22ph  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas to everyone

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    Another Take  about 2 years ago

    HO HO HO and to anyone who got that coveted Official Red Ryder, Carbine Action, 200-Shot, Range Model Air Rifle (with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time), DON’T SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!

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    Another Take  about 2 years ago

    Judging from Tracy’s indoor attire, they turn the heat off at HQ on Christmas Day. They better leave the water trickling a bit…

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    Phantomfire 01  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!!!

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    LAFITZGERALD  about 2 years ago

    Truly a wonderful holiday comic strip!! Hurrah & Ho, ho!!

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    Darryl Heine  about 2 years ago

    Have a Christmas song in your head!

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    Ray Toler  about 2 years ago

    Very clever strip today.

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    jwarrenphd  about 2 years ago

    Merry Christmas!

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    Sporteric11   almost 2 years ago

    I am assuming the Moon people share land with Santa Claus !!!

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    Sisyphos  almost 2 years ago

    It may be redundant at this point, but naytheless, Merry Christmas to all!

    Everyone in Tracyville (at least, all those police or police-related) has a carol this year. And mine for this year is here linked: https://tinyurl.com/yzzfsgvs

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    198.23.5.11  almost 2 years ago

    Art Dekko celebrates Christmas by stealing Salvation Army kettles

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    198.23.5.11  almost 2 years ago

    Christmas comes but once a year,,,,now it’s here,now it’s here…

    Bringing lots of joy and cheer…TRA LA LA LAA!!

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