Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 14, 2023

Oh no, are you serious?

A Pawn Stars crossover?

Mike is as consistently predictable as I am a complainer!

Good morning™, everyone!

“Pawn Stars,” started by Rick Harrison and his late father, Richard “Old Man” Harrison, is in its 20th season.

Lizz is starting to look gender neutral.

Could be on purpose.

Shelly, why did you draw Tracy like the Thing in panel 3?

Don’t recall ever seeing lines like are on Tracy’s face in panel three.

Or, you could just do a quick Google search to see who in the area sells expensive antique board games and warn all of them.

Good morning™, crossover guest appearances !

At least I now know who Rick Harrison is. P.3 Tracy’s face looks like it was chiseled like some kind of stone carving. Maybe the Puzzler could pull a string or a cable and get Dick’s face to stand in for the former “Old Man of the Mountain”. ;-p

I like the split effect of panels one and two… haven’t seen anything like that before… at least not that I can remember…

Well, if Tracy is going to be paying a visit to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop, maybe he can bring one of his famous bullet-riddled hats along, to see what he can get for it. Tracy & Rick haggling might be as entertaining as Tracy exchanging gunfire with Flattop.

Oh Geez! Mike couldn’t help himself could he?

I remember reading an interview with Rebecca, the book expert from the show. As it probably comes to little surprise, she didn’t know the Harrisons at all, and was cast by the producers.

Would rather see a Pawn Srars crossover than Pawn Stars

I never cared for Pawn Stars, liked the Pickers though!

Shouldn’t he ask the makers of Clue?

I think this may be a new record for Mike today…we’re only, what..four days in, and ALREADY it’s a lame duck of an offering

Now…not that I’m wishing this on ANYONE but wasnt ollie blank eyes in need of assistance from tracy? And what in tarnation was that old saucer eyed coot digging thru in his garage all those months ago?

I’m uncertain what Rick Harrison might be an expert in. He doesn’t get a cold viewing of anything on the show. People who have an item they think might look good on the television show bring them in to a producer. If it might be interesting they have researchers run background on it and feed the information to Harrison. Sometimes they bring in the real experts when they’re afraid of making Harrison look omniscient. And they do bring in a real toy & game expert onto the screen when one is needed.

A nice shout out to Pawn Stars without the show name. I miss “The Old Man” tho.

I had a friend I my re-enacting group who was into vintage games and stuff. He’d show off his latest acquisitions at events and oh the memories that would come rushing back.

Maybe Danny from Counting Cars can fix up their prowl cars.

Which one? Thought I read that the owner of the Toy Box got indicted for something, or, another, so that the “World Famous Gold and SIlver Pawn Shop” was using a different expert.(And, everything in quotes is the full legal name of the Harrison’s shop.)

Well, at least this week’s guest shot is a real person…

1-DT: DUCK, LIZ! HE’S GOT THE DROP ON YOU!

2-LIZ: It’s a picture on a screen, Dick.

3-DT: Oh. It’s just that…well, I worry about you Liz. Maybe I care too much to ever want to see you in danger. That’s why I’m transferring you to the Meter Maid Division effectively immediately.

LIZ: I’d be filing a complaint with my Police Advocate if I thought he’d actually remember to do that. Thanks for caring, Dick. DT: Huh? About what?

A board games expert…sounds like the same as a weather forecaster.

movie quote—“Who were you expecting,Humphrey Bogart?”

Cornel Wilde—-"BEYOND MOMBASA—-1957

The ultimate sin.Dividing a panel that doesn’t need to be divided.

I thought only DC COMICS did that.

Okay,calling in outside help from a show I’ve never heard of,ME TV has a “Collector’s Call” show.

Lizz is supposed to look BETTER than t hat,and it’s been done for years without making her look less than professional.

Remember a panel from Collins’ MILLION DOLLAR CONTRACT epic?“No,Gertie,Sparkle isn’t here, she’s on a date”

They should try to get Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz from American Pickers. Rick always has to bring in an expert to talk toys. Of course Frank may not be available since he had a stroke in 2022 but Mike would still know more than Rick.

I used to watch Pawn Stars during my lunch break at my last job. Only got to see the first 15 minutes because of my break time hours. Anyway, I remember an episode where a guy brought in a MASSIVE collection of Pokemon cards. Rick didn’t have a clue. Chumly was like OMG we have to buy these. Rick called them Pokey Man cards the entire episode, despite being corrected about three times. Nobody told him it was a shortened version of Pocket Monsters, THAT would have really messed him up. I am pretty sure they called in an expert and he and Chumley were going through the cards to valuate them.

TRACY: “Sooo, no questions asked, how much for this vintage Sam. Doesn’t do much but he makes a passable paperweight. And there’s that green thing he has going…”

RICK: “Well, it varies. How much will you pay US? Let me just call a friend who knows about second bananas.”

I am taking a week’s vacation from work and the computer I follow this strip on.

As Vitamin Flintheart would say—“I shan’t return” until Tuesday April 25th.

May everybody prosper,and don’t take Blowtop’s parking space by mistake.

OK, I liked the art today, put that in your pipe and smoke it! LOL!

Let’s go for the “Toy Expert”!

Lizz and Tracy dialoguing with Gameboy’s image on screen in the background of panels 1 and 2 (which I think are divided only to emphasize focus on each speaker in turn) leads to an agreement to seek out the toy expert for consultation, trying to get a clue as to where Gameboy might strike next. He’s already hit a bank, a Savings and Loan, and a museum. Where or what would be his next target (he’s gone twice just for money and “profit” and once for a vintage and presumptively valuable board game; this doesn’t make predictability easy)? But anything is better than nothing as our MCU flails about in search of a new, brash, and elusive perp….