Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 18, 2023

Fancy digs.

Good morning™, everyone!

That’s a major size for a house belonging to a single woman. Must be nice to inherit so much money.

Good morning™, Million Dollar Miles !

That must be Tracy going up the hill. I never knew Tracyville (Chi town) to have hills like that !  What does one person do with that much house ? ?

I think the Butler did it.

Chicago is on Lake Michigan yet many stories notably the Brow’s and Hardly Brothers’ make Tracyville be near the sea.

So they has this big fancy hotel in residential district eh.

Quite a house. I wonder if it has a dungeon.

Jeez, I really want to comment here, but…before I do…I think I have to ask Brian’s permission, after all…that IS protocol these days isnt it?

Xaviera has Smith kinda money

Meanwhile, in stately Wayne Manor…

Alfred is pilfering the silverware and hiding his ill-gotten gains in his secret Alfred-cave beneath the third rock in the garden. But, who is this sinister shadow closely following is perfidious pilfering progress!?! Could it be Sarge? Rosemary the telephone operator? Moms Mabley?

‘Shh! It’s only a model!"

Wow, great visuals today!

So did Tracy ever tell Sam about the old cold cases he brought with him? Or did he just leave Sam feeling smug about having “solved” the mystery of whether Ms. Caxton was alone when she was murdered?

Big deal . So she’s rich and lives in Jed Clampett’s house .

Does Tracy have a warrant, just in case? LOL

Ah, the original Playboy Mansion…I wonder if Barbie, Vickie and Mandy are still running around in skimpy bikinis titillating Hugh’s guests.

It goes without saying and we say it often, but the artwork is as fine as ever.

1-On a dark hilly roadway, A/C in his hair

2-Clueless Tracy steps into her lair CREAK! Uhhhh, anybody home? Hello…?

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Oh no! Why would you build a huge wing on the back of your mansion that has an entirely glass ceiling? Why, you’re just asking for someone to break through it and steal all your rare books in a daring heist! I swear, people don’t do any basic defensibility research before engaging in massive building projects anymore.

but I DO like the effort and detail Shell put into those two panels alone…

the sprawling, well-to-do neighborhood area where Frau Krautengruber resides and her overly opulent residence…

the panels really convey what the Fraulein is allabout…

Safe bet such homeowners DON’T put up illegal invaders!!

maybe panel two is really Arkham Asylum…

all the lights are on, but no one’s home…

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“I’ll have to see him before I believe he’s invisible!”

Sir Cedric Hardwicke—THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS—1940

Looks more like “The Streets of San Francisco” tha Tracy’s city.

Fortunately for the world at large,Dick Tracy has never been intimidated by wealthy crooks.

Ask the cartoon strip collector,who’s probably STILL yelling that he’s a friend of The Mayor

After two days without the topic,I’ll probably hate myself for starting it up again.

Area around Afghanistan/Splinter Countries that were once Russian; play a popular sport called Kok-Boru. It’s played like polo—-the players are on horseback.

But instead of a ball, they play with an “80-pound,headless and legless goat carcass”,.

You have to lean down from your horse,grab t he carcass,and carry it as far as you can without the rival team grabbing it out of your hands.

Gweedo and Firestrike are probably enthralled already

That place would not fit on the “inskirts” of town. (Keep it clean, Fire!) ;)

The Bruce Wayne Mansion?

That is some serious zoning if they can keep developments from growing up around the oldest part of the town. Unless they have the outskirts inside of the town.

….hey have butlers and cleaning people on the premises 24/7/365…..the rest is just “the fixins’”………

There was not much more for us to talk about,

Whatever we had once was gone.

So I turned my cab into the driveway

Past the gate and the fine trimmed lawn.

(Harry Chapin, “Taxi”)

In the rolling outskirts of Tracyville (which seems more mindful of Los Angeles than of Chicago today), Tracy (I presume) drives toward the grand mansion which is probably—almost certainly—the local abode of Xaviera Libris (she likely has other homes scattered across prime locations worldwide). It easily accommodates a spectacular library.

Will our detective be bedazzled and befuddled, or has he the laser-like intense focus to see through Xaviera’s awesome façade [take that as you will, D.O.M.]?

That’s not Oak Park/Frank Lloyd Wright territory.Too new