Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 01, 2024

Considering how long jury trials take these days, this is about 18 months after the events.

Good morning™, work releasers !

Given the wokeness that has infected this venerabal icon, I see him getting off light. Great facials on these people, Carlos.

who will burst in the courtroom tomorrow?…

Seems parts of this storyline wrap-up takes place several week, or months later…are we getting a time jump – or will it be glossed over.

~ If they were truly his “peers” they would all be white collar crooks too. The guy would walk, easy with a crew like THAT.

On August 1, 2024, Pravuil Gabriel went on trial. In a moment, the results of that trial.

Praviul Gabriel was convicted on 12 counts of operating a lithograph printer without a license, 10 counts of using polysyllabic words when monosyllabic words would have sufficed, & one count of being dumber than his associates, who were smart enough to get away. He was sentenced to 4 years at the state penitentiary, where he would only receive newspapers containing reprints of this storyline.

I wonder if the shadows in the first panel are Tracy and Sam. I don’t know who else would get away with keeping a hat on without being in contempt of court….

Am I missing something here ? You don’t invoke your right to silence after the trial in which you have bee found guilty, you do it before you speak to the police or I thought that was the game plan as advised by all the lawyers, fictional and real.

Good morning™, everyone!

This is a rare thing for this strip to follow the criminal into the courtroom. Maybe we’ll be following him into jail, too.

This must be a flash forward – it usually takes about a year to prepare cases and go to trial.

Peers… So other blackmailers thought he was guilty?

If the case was in Miami, Florida, he would get off light. If he was an illegal alien, he could kill someone and get only two weeks in jail. This crime would get Colonel Sanders an overnight stay.

Guy isn’t very bright if he says freedom of the press covers blackmail. Like libel it is very much not covered. And, unlike libel, there are no arguments about the definition.

And, talk about time skip… (Okay, you weren’t talking about time skip, but let’s mention it anyway.) It was going to be months – probably more than a year – between arrest and conviction.

Order in the court! Order! Order!

Here takes me order me lord. Me want cheeken kebab. And coffee after that.

Lower the boom—stop the presses! There’s late breaking news tomorrow!!!

“I sentence you to…reading this story again—five times!”

Remember Your Honor, the system will have to feed him!

Panel 2, is he about to pass gas? His ultimate revenge?!

Hmmm there’s more to ComicCons than memorabilia collecting:

Headline: Comic-Con human trafficking sting in San Diego leads to 14 arrests, 10 rescues

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sentence you to what, TO WHAT!? :O

UGH….

Fastest trial in history.

Tomorrow we see Gabriel, hard at work in the prison print shop, putting out posters for the upcoming cell block theatrical society hit, “Dick Tracy, the Musical!”

Do you think they got his female associates and they ratted him out?

Looks like Colonel Sanders is going on a prison diet. The best job for him is in the kitchen !

The suspense is killing me.

Alas, the intrigue.

freedom of the press?what’s next? i wasn’t driving i was travelling?

1- JUDGEY WUDGEY: I’m surprised to see you wearing Peter Piercer Jr’s suit, counselor! COUNSELOR: It’s always part of my fee, Judgey – give me your best suit and $50.

2- TWELVE GABE SHOTGUN: If I may your honor – I now believe it may have been inadvisable to let the son of a man I blackmailed pay for my lawyer. I don’t believe he hired the best or brightest.

3- JUDGEY: Too bad. The jury decided – in record time I might add – that you’re guilty of … something. I’ll give you a break though. Seeing as how your girth would make it difficult to get comfy on a tiny prison cot, I sentence you TO DEATH! COUNSELOR: Thank you for your kind consideration, Judgey!

TWELVE GABE: I’LL APPEAL! JUDGEY: You’ll appeal an apple for all the good it will do you! CROWEDED COURTROOM: YAY! GOOD ONE JUDGE! CHEERS!

Wow. Swift justice in Det. Tracy land!

I like this judge. She’s not playing the old “Freedom of the Press” game. His goose is cooked.

“Cleaning the Aegean stables. Also rolling some whomping big rock up the side of a mountain.”

VENGEY ! ! ! Come back , I want more cartoons .

30 days in the hole

Things move fast in Tracy County. Just seems like it was yesterday that Gabriel was arrested.

Yeah?

I hate these cliff hangers.

Piffle! Rot The court refuses to stomach any more of these cheap imbecilic mouthings! STOP!!!!

And the defendent is sentenced to hard labor for the rest of his natural life!!

Judge sentencing STEVE THE TRAMP—1933

The judge was found guilty by a jury of Gabriel’s peers? That’s what her grammar is telling us.