Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 09, 2024

Good morning™, everyone!

Well, what do you know? There really was money in that suitcase. I still don’t understand how the “couple” could claim that their old house was in the woods in a park.

Loving the man in the moon…….

Looks like B.O. can drop the hillbilly shtick & talk like a serious person when the occasion calls for it. The artwork is truly great … Charles draws incredible nite skies. I give today’s strip 4 stars.

Today’s strip also reminds me of Mad’s parody of The French Connection. They have the scene when the police have the drug smugglers’ car in the garage, & have it taken totally apart, & the mechanic says they can’t find the drugs. Popeye asks if they looked in the trunk, & the mechanic says no.

Charles ruining the realism of the strip by putting a face on the crescent moon. ;P

Money is Batman’s superpower.

Gotta admit, that’s great detective work by Tracy! LOL!

Good morning™, Big Discoveries !

That does look like a man-in-the-moon shot. ;-p  If Dick were crooked he and B.O. would be in da money.   Whoever’s coloring this is doing GREAT ! :-)

Hopefully tomorrow Mike writes B.O.s reply of “Yeah, I know.”

For those of us who have missed the firefart lately it is because he has a dire situation with his desktop’s hard drive. A fella he knows who does comp work will be having a go at it. fs says there is 20 years of material that he can’t access including passwords to places he goes. He is in a state over it. I will be talking to his tech when he gets over there later in the morning.

My suggestions are to see if the hard drive motor is getting juice to turn or perhaps the motor itself is seized. He might check that and if it is the motor to try and remove the disc portion and set it in another hard drive that will spin and allow copying of the contents. Maybe a motor can be swapped in ?

Anyone have any ideas ?

Next B.O. indentifies Croptop as one of the people with the suitcase and Tracy lays a trap…..

Would serial numbers on this old money be available? Whose name is shown as Secretary of the Treasury?

It’s a miracle…the bundles did not crumble in Tracy’s hands.

The moon and stars gave off enough light to help Tracy see this was old money.

Wait one doggone minute, where is the suitcase? Seriously? It was unlocked all these years?

The one who buried it…he didn’t believe in keys?

Old money eh. Not tells me it past the best before date.

No politics, Gweedo. Only goats!

I’ve always wondered about B.O.: Does he have some sort of Don Quixote “sees what he wants to see” thing going or is he just that stupid?

Is this set in late 20th century?

“Let me get my fingerprints all over it!”

So, is finding a buried treasure a crime?

I’d like to see an open trunk, with an opened suitcase full of money between panels 1 & 2 (or something to that effect). The perfect place for B.O.‘s perfect King’s English recitation of his run in with Crop Top.

Silver certificates !

Confederate money?

TRACY: sigghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh) “Exactly HOW stupid ARE you? Your depths never cease to amaze me.”

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1-DT: Cool exhaust system! I bet the trunk is really cool! Can I see? BO: And they call me weird Shore, I guess.

2-DT: Just as I suspected – a suitcase full of money! BO: Durn. I was hoping it would be coke. I guess I can buy a lot of it with that money though. DT: I wish I could win a car with a trunk full of money. And to think the charity didn’t even mention the money! They could a sold a lot more raffle tickets if they had!

BO: And they call ME stupid… DT: What? BO: What?

Just got off the phone with firestrike1. He has an SSD drive that needs recovery and so far his tech, Tim, has tried to do extraction and not succeeding so far and will be keeping the unit over the weekend. fs has resigned himself to not ever getting back 20 years of stuff. He may try using the phone to come here.

B.O.: “You sure that’s not some pictures of ol’ Ben Franklin?”

Tracy always wished he’d come from “old money”. Now he can!

“All right, BO. I’m taking this for evidence. No need to mention it to anyone.”

TV QUOTE

“You know what they say, Jim. “Money can’t buy happiness”

“Yeah. But think how comfortably I could have suffered”

Noel Neill& Jack Larson—“Olsen’s Millions”—1954