Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 07, 2024

Patrick silent as a tomb. Has not a word to say

Had a date to run his mouth until his final day

Found him on the wrong end of Morgana’s magic act

Dead men never tell a tale. ‘Tis certainly a fact.

On stage the box was sawed in two. Nary a drop was shed

Yet awoke so sick and pale. The next thing he dropped dead.

Today so silent on the slab, covered by a sheet

Cold and stiff and motionless. A grim fate he did meet.

Mogana’s magic deadly. All life was drained away

Thought he’d spill the beans in court. He shall not speak today.

oh for… now it’s Jon Pertwee… yeah, Mike’s a Who fan… who’s next?…

Pertwee? Who?

so it was Pertwee who ordered the hit…

Someone call a Doctor! Or Two or even Three….

Good morning™, all!

So the “Second Doctor” (sort of) was supposed to testify against the “Third Doctor”? Well, I guess that’s not going to happen now. Also, I think we have some idea of who ordered the hit.

Oh Beep!

Is Tom Baker next?

Seems like a Rube Goldberg kind of way to pull off a professional hit, but I guess you can’t argue with success.

Sounds like being a drug lord paid off for Jon Pertwee as his ill gotten gains got him enough cash to make his troubles (aka Patrick Throughton) go away….PERMANENTLY.

Good morning™, giddy up – STOPPED !!!

With all that drug money Jon has how could he not afford to call a hit ?  The heavy lines in Pat’s hair, and the sheet covering his face, makes it look like a tiger paw. 6th panel; Tracy is deflated and crestfallen.

Looks like a Who’s Who of Dr. Who actors are needed….

https://en.wikipedia.Org/wiki/List_of_actors_who_have_played_the_Doctor

The saw did not kill him, wonder what did?!

Here is more on 39-year-old Roll of Honor honoree Justin White. The Interim Chief says that the police department was grieving because the department is like a family:

https://youtu.Be/bqGDg2Icwhk

Just ridiculous ! Why did Tracy, Sam and other MCU officers not warn the witness to keep a low profile until the court case was over or provide witness protection if it is a major drug case? How many other court witnesses are going to be killed off/ murdered ? At least Tracy has a new hat, so all is not lost. Just hope Tracy / Sam remember to wear latex gloves at the crime scene which was sadly lacking in previous cases- remember the case a few months back- Sam had his ungloved fingers all over the candy / sweet wrapper.

One wonders what and how killed him. Some contraption in the box?

I clicked back to the previous days; Patrick was the one sawed in half during the magic show. Questions coming to my mind are how she knew he would be there? What was her weapon of choice to eliminate him? Shouldn’t this guy have been in the witness protection program? A bureaucrat in law enforcement must give an explanation. Probably motel food or a take-out did him in.

So he to be testify today and he goes to some magic show just a day ago and get mysteriously killed because of magician? So victim conveniently coming to killer’s magic show just one day before was sure way for killer to gets rid of him? What if he not appear at show for some reason? Geez. How conveniently contrived can ya gets? It just begin but this story disappointing already.

Wait for William Hartnell to make an appearance. Personally I really liked Patrick Troughton… A pity so many of his episodes were destroyed.

Just don’t kill Matt Smith or David Tennant !

Doctor? Doctor Who? (giggles)

To quote Astro, “Rut Rho”

Sam Catchem in action today . “The Friends of Sam Catchem” are pleased .

Won’t the autopsy show the poison? And then won’t Pertwee immediately be the #1 suspect?

Who is this Doctor you all speak of??

Godfrey Daniels! Chief Patton bears a rather reminiscent resemblance to W.C. Fields today, ah yasss….

I was thinking Karl Malden

SAM (chortling evilly): ‘Yeppers, T-Boy! EVIDENCE has a whole bunch of NEW stuff that I should…uh…inventory. May take all day. Let me just move my pickup in close. So’s I can hit the…er…bowling alley right after work! Yeah! Bowling!"

NOTE: This is now official! From now on, Sam will officially refer to Tracy as ‘T-Boy’! (ducking and running)

And Prince Albert in a can?

…and he has Prince Albert in a can.

WHO, we talking about here?

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Peter Davison did it but will blame it on Tom Baker.

ANNOUNCER: And now we return to “Superman vs. Doctor Who”.

There are times Shell’s art really excels…like today!

Lame, Mike… very, very, very, very lame. May Xaveria Libris put a pox on you. We need to regenerate back to Chester Gould.

Off-topic: All the publicity about Mickey Mouse (at least “Steamboat Willie” and its characters) entering the public domain on January 1 made me realize that Dick Tracy will be doing the same in 2027.

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Look, I get that Dick Tracy is at least 15 to 20 percent old timey pop culture references by volume, but I feel like naming two characters after the actors who played the Second and Third Doctors on Doctor Who but you add a letter to one of the names and also don’t make the characters look anything like them is less of an “old timey pop culture reference” and more “ah [spit] ah [spit] I need to come up with a couple names for people for this storyline, uh uh uh uh uh”.

1-DT: I got my new hat just in time for all the Tracyville Times photogs who will be at the big trial!

2-SAM: Yep. Convincing Throckmorton while he was in the drunk tank that Pitwheeeeee! had confessed EVERYTHING to him was my best ever acting job!

3-CHIEF GENERAL PATTON: Which one a you boyos was supposed to guard Throckmorton last night?

4-DT: Uhhh…it was Lee. SAM: No, LIZ. DT: BOTH OF THEM! Yeah!

5-CHIEF GENERAL: Well he’s with the angels now. SAM: Uh…a little clarification there, Chief – the ball club or the strippers down at the Heavenly Bodies Gentleman’s Club? WAIT! Never mind. I’ll go there and find out for myself. You head to Anaheim, Tracy! WE’LL WIN THIS CASE YET! Go ahead and start without me if I’m not back in 3 hours…

Maybe the brothers Colin and Tom Baker?

I bet tom Baker did it!

So now Tracy is up against the Doctor Who Syndicate? This could get dicey. Only time will tell.

They should have at least misspelled Jon Pertwee’s name, as they did with Patrick Troughton. People would have still gotten the “joke.”

hey, I just noticed…

no vengey today…

I THOUGHT the air smelled a bit sweeter and fresher here today…

along with my not farting up the place today, for once… LOL…

Somebody go get K-9 and UNIT (and definitely Sarah Jane Smith)! This slander against the Bond-ish Doctor has got to stop!

Kinda looks like the coroner is puzzling over his report! Probably not, but I am quite curious to find out what the cause of death will be determined to be!

So what happened to the two troopers modeled after the creators of Superman? Was that just a fluke or is their visit related? What are our next pair of guest characters going to be named: Bruce Boxleitner and Michael O’Hare?

I started watching with William Hartnell. I can still remember the first time the Daleks were shown. The show was low budget, no doubt, but I thought upside down trash cans!

Has anyone else noticed that the drug lord’s hair and beard are different colors?

Naming criminals after “Doctor Who” actors? Now that’s just wrong!

Poor Pat Patton looks like the worst caricature of “Irish Cop” they could dream up

So, Throughton was about to be a key witness against drug lord Jon Pertwee (must Dr. Who actors’ names be used?). But now he’s stone-cold dead on a slab in the coroner’s lab.

Motive and probably hirer of the hit are now known, it seems. The means of using the slow-acting but very fatal poison on poor Patrick are still murky, but Fata got the hit done whatever her tools….

I was kind of thinking of the Who reference with the witness, but the last name was slightly different, but now? Jeez.