Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 21, 2024

and now the blackmailing scheme begins…

target: Borden…

Yikes! Bet it’s gonna take til next Thursday to get in the club!

We’ll be forced to read about Lee’s new tie and Tracy’s preferred color of nail polish! LOL!

I don’t like fat boy. I hope he meets an appropriate ending.

Good morning™, all!

Borden does not have a happy evening coming up. Gabriel not only shuns computers, he has an impossibly antique telephone at his desk.. I see that the Mad Colorist chose to render this scene mostly in sepia tones as if it were some scene from the distant past.

Good morning™, Color Schemes !

The coloring is most startling and to me fits this guy. He’s quite the eccentric chap.

Bore den eh. How interesteeng could this be eh. And he already give her 5000 USD even before he actually get profit from this blackmail?

ZOUNDS….Gabriel must possess immense wealth. He has enough in what he calls petty cash to dole out $5000 from it?

Sarah’s not overly excited. “Petty cash” is a Monopoly set.

Change to a Southern Bow Tie and you will have an evil Colonel Sanders !

This guy is really old school. No cell phone for him. He uses the kind of model B.O. Plenty would appreciate.

Miss Phym, nice work when you can get it. $5,000…imagine that!

Miss Phym may take $5,000 from petty cash. What about her female work colleague – will she be annoyed when she finds out ?- no bonus for her. Maybe she will go to Tracy / MCU direct and spill the beans on the whole operation. Hope so.

“Prepare my horse & buggy! I’m off to the Diogenes Club!”

Will we get to meet the switchboard operator, since the phone he’s using can’t dial out?

(A modern land line phone was offered that had the look of the phone he’s using, with a small key pad on the base to make calls. But given what we’ve seen of Gabriel here I find the switchboard operator more likely.)

The Choate Club, I assume? LOL, but seriously, both of Eric’s regular-length stories for DT will have now used private clubs as a setting for some of its characters.

love the candlestick phone

MOVIE QUOTE—

“They’ll believe any kind of lie if it sounds like the truth. And not believe the truth if it sounds like a lie”

Will Rogers—TOO BUSY TO WORK—1932

If somebody says “Publish and be dam*ned”,then what

Easy to tell who is evil. All the evil people are always frowning. Tell your artist to do better. There are other expression than frowning.

Dude looks like Teddy Roosevelt. Bet Miss Prissy is better when she lets her hair down.

The story line is making Charles to work over time drawing characters….

1-FATTY SHOEBUCKLE: WHO ARE YOU AND WHADAYA WANT??? SARAH SMILE: It’s me, Sarah. Put your glasses on!

2-FATTY: Ahw – so you are. Cancel that call to the cops, operator! Oh. Wait…

3-…. Page Dick Bone for me. Wait. Make that Richard Rager. No? Hugh Johnson? Peter Phallic? What? I’ve tried them all before? sigh SARAH – NEW ASSIGNMENT! HIRE A NEW OPERATOR IMMEDIATELY!

The games afoot.

I shall be absent until Monday July 1st—-taking a week’s vacation from work.

“He paid the price for living a loose,careless life. His first mistake was keeping company with a girl who was a perfume thief. He thought she was cute. That little beginning was his downfall”

“Crime doesn’t pay because it CAN’T pay.It has the world against it. Remember that,boys!” 1937

This guys office is like the bridge of the Galactica, all old-school, retro tech. Is he expecting to battle Cylons?

Mr COSTELLO has created a timely plot which raises ethic and media subissues such as: The dangers of bad-mouthing celebrities and those ordinary citizens who are in their “circle,” and the long history of gossip magazines, etc. As Go Comics Favorites have a long lead time, suggestions will probably have impact in 2025 etc….The villain is colorful. Best from CT Tracy reader x decades. GF