Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 04, 2023

Everyone is smiling in today’s strip because they know they really succeeded in jerking us around in this “Adventure to Nowhere” story!

Good morning™, everyone!

The entry gate cam saves the day! Go, Sam! Get that ID! Plus, Tracy may get information from Anders at the hospital.

Sam is doing a Firestrike in panel 3!

What should Sam give the press officer a heads up about? The license plate? Suppose the guy switches plates with another car?

Gee Tracy, isn’t there a risk of running the suspect out of town before you can arrest him?

Hopefully the feeling of “conclusion is on the way” I get from today’s strip isn’t fools gold!

“You just saved your spot in the strip, Riger!”

“What strip are you talking about?”

“Right right right, I forgot. Never mind again.”

is Riverview hospital a nod to the old Riverview amusement park in Chicago years ago before it was torn down back in ’67?…

Perhaps a striking Hollywood writer can take over the strip???

Good morning™, dogs will hunt !

We’re rollin’ now !  I hope and it is not a tease as suggested by the vengerish one. All Trace needs do now is have units looking for that car and then keeping tabs on its whereabouts until driver identity is confirmed and woodn’cha know … a guy who is in the data base and now ripe for pick up. It might help if Reeger gets some drones in the air to help with the search.

Hey Riger. How can it be a clear shot of the number plate if your hand is blocking it?

Parking patrol with Dick Tracy!

I guess keeping Wendy Winchel happy is more important to Sam than asking Tracy what that “urgent message” was.

Or maybe they could ID him before the turn of the next cebtury.

Fantastic view of that Caprice! There’s a couple of folks in my area who’ve taken care of theirs, and they’re still rolling around like that today! Well, in much better condition!

Panel 2: Rude of Tracy to gab at Sam while his caller is still talking….

Creative thought there Avenger!!

OT, SCREAMING: Two new cars, and Hyundai/Soul (made by the same company) have recalls on both. Looks as if we dodged a bullet, though. I already had a separate recall on the Soul. Now ANOTHER one??

Things are shaking loose at last .

…..maybe by Xmas Eve The Spirit Of Chester Gould will pay a visit and…………

Why Riverview and not County General? LOL j/k

1-GIZMO: Look! I can read the plate! DT: Really? I can barely tell that it’s a car. GIZMO: It’s a personalized plate. It says “KLR MADSEN”

2-DT: Obviously stolen from some rapper. Another dead end. Oh. The hospital just buzzed me. SAM: Probably want a Second Opinion about some dread malady. DT: No doubt.

3-SAM: GET OVER THERE AND SAVE A LIFE, TRACY! DT: It’s what I do, Sam. It’s what I do.

GIZMO: Isn’t it more likely to be about Anders? DT: Who?

We’ve been studying this footage far longer than it took Tracy to stay up all night listening to the recordings from the wire tap.

So now Tracy is going to the hospital, Sam is going to trace the plates and alert everyone, but who is going to check on the TV station? Don’t they have a warrant by now?

“I’m thinking of all the women in London who can walk the streets in safety tonight. The stars look down from the heavens.And in a way,old friend,we are also privileged to watch over our city”

Basil Rathbone—THE WOMAN IN GREEN—1945

The car is currently parked hidden in an alley,with our shooter apparently living in it.Hire a copter and look down from the air.

There’s more than one reporter in Tracy’s city.If Wendy Wichel shows up, arrest her for bad taste in hats.

We get the illusion, at least, that things are suddenly picking up real speed and that an arrest could be near, maybe (in Tracy-Time) this afternoon! Caprice plates BOLO. Press officer alerted to Stand By. Tracy sanguine; Sam awake; Riger on station.

Shades of The GarryOwen! https://tinyurl.com/bdhjbxa8