Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 03, 2024

aHA… a past mystery and sub-plot will be explained…

Good morning™, all!

It looks like an Egyptian mummy. That makes me wonder what the ancient Egyptians would have been doing at the South Pole. I suppose it did look like a typical Egyptian pyramid, though.

“Gauze” & effect.

This is a gift that is ALL WRAPPED UP and ready to be delivered.;-D

pyramids near the south pole? An egyptian mummy? What nonsense is this? Diet, beware!

Good morning™, Mysterious Gift Bearers !

Such an outpouring of generosity by Rose-ann. Are we lulled into a ‘sense of security’ yet ? :-O Charles aint no dummy when it comes to mummies.

I hope Smith is familiar with Homer’s Iliad, because that mummy looks an awful lot like a Trojan Horse.

Ahh, the gift of a Trojan Horse.

Firestrike’s best friend in prison!

Mandatory at Gweedo’s goat Farm.

Not necessary for Any Takes solo flights!

Grandma Tracy!!!

It’s probably stolen property!

Pyramids at south pole what nonsense! Diet beware!

Uh… It is true that mummies are found all over the world. But not in an Egyptian mummy case…

Which makes me wonder whose body is really in it? And is Smith stupid enough he isn’t wondering?

>Sigh< An Egyptian mummy case should not be called a sarcophagus, but it is. There are a lot of sloppy inaccuracies in English that have simply become standard usage through misusage. (The “catacombs” of Malta are not catacombs in the Roman meaning of the term. They are underground burial vaults. Underground burial vaults go back thousands of years before catacombs. But tourists will line up to see the catacombs of Malta and have no interesting in viewing underground burial vaults. Catacombs are a distinctly Roman variation on the theme.)

Trojan horse.

I wonder if they found this somewhere near “The Mountains of Madness”?

Diet: “Now I’ve met your mummy, but who’s your daddy?”

The governor is in there, isn’t he?

Wasn’t there something mentioned in the new Moon Valley Antarctica story about a pyramid near them or was that a research base?

“Pay no attention to that ticking”

Get that X-rayed, pronto.

Whaaaaat? Me was never knews there be pyramids near them south poles.

The old Trojan ancient mummy box trick eh.

….beware Ro-Zans bearing gifts………..I think I hear that “You’ll be sorrrrrrrrryyyyyyy!” yell in the background……

South pole of the moon?

Except the Antarctic “pyramid” we found to be nunataks, or in layman terms, a pointed rocky peak that sticks out above the glaicer

A Mummy for you – complete with curse!

And it’s full of ancient, flesh eating viruses!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You sure you know how to shoot that?”

“Sure.I saw DIRTY HARRY 24 times!”

Tony O’Dell—-CHOPPING MALL—1986

A seeming Egyptian mummy from a pyramid near the South Pole? The anthropologists will be having a field day with that story. Ro-Zan will be hanging around for about a week? Just what Diet wants.

So, the long overdue Lon Chaney , Jr. plotline arrives as, one by one, the characters fall — victims of an ancient Lunarian curse and Clairol, the Mummy (originally supposed to be Lady Clairol, but she had a commercial to film) Starting with B.O. and ‘that terrible chicken.’

You only have to brew the essence of 100,000 ‘nana leaves in gone-flat Pepsi , in a Min Gumpco ’best of the ceramic best’ pot for six weeks for each incident. Only takes a week per victim, so ’tis a sloooow fate!

WILL Tracy find the Lost Bronze Chicken of Lemuria, the mummy’s weakness, in TIME?

WILL Sam steal the wretched thing?

DOES the deli accept bronze relics as payment for that extra side order?

And what of Sweet Polly Purebred who, when last we looked, wasn’t i the strip at all?

TUNE IN TO HAVE THERE AND MANY OTHER QUESTIONS DEFTLY IGNORED!

WOWZERS!

TRACY: Great SCOTT, man! I-it’s Jimmy Hoffa!!!!

1- RO: Come on in – lemme show you around. DOIT: WHOA! It’s bigger than it looks! RO: That’s WHAT SHE SAID!!! BOTH: HAR HAR HAR!

2- DOIT: Is it ok if I smoke in here? Never mind. I’m going to anyway because I’m a self-important billionaire. RO: It’s ok. That’s why we have the cursed former captain of the Space Coupe hermetically sealed up – smoke awakens him which would lead to the probable end of civilization.

DOIT: Say – that looks like a Smith Industries Hermetically Sealed Coffin! RO: It is. We weren’t taking any chances! DOIT: Oh sh_t. GOTTA RUN! CRACK! CREAK! RIP!

The only Mummy I know is “Kharis”,who was never a very nice fellow.

Seriously,in all of fiction has there ever been a HEROIC Mummy?

Science fiction week.

Are we looking at a cross-over with King Tut from Batman?

Inside is a book titled “To Serve Mankind.”

People are trying to excuse the Egyptian mummy from the South Pole by claiming it must come from the South Pole of the moon! That’s supposed to make more sense? Why not the South Pole of Jupiter or Venus?

And, the mystery plot of a modern body being hidden in an ancient mummy case goes back more than a century.