Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 04, 2024

Someone better “cop” a plea.

Good morning™, all!

“The Brow” is seeing double! It’s good to know that Tracy is securing the scene at least.

firestrike1 suggested sum parful good eatin’ t’ me about 1 hour ago

@Gweedo it’s legal here Murray

why don’t you have yourself a bowl of goat’s head soup?

Right after I look at pictures of Lily.

Good morning™, Dead Doppelgangers !

Does a scene like this cause Tracy to examine his own mortality ?

Oh, not to worry. That’s Dick Tracy’s second cousin, Fearless Fosdick. This happens all the time.

Great art today, though.

I haven’t seen The Brow for a while.

What happened to the clock tower story?

Dick Tracy took The Brow’s word for it that “Dick Tracy” is dead. He’s not going to touch a dead body. Ewww.

so… the other story is done? all that time to light a clock? whats next… DT makes a sandwich?

I’m still working on the theory he’s not dead and tracy is trampling all over their cosplay

1- SKINHEAD: HEY! I JUST KILLED YOU! DT: Nope. ♪♪♫ I FEEL FINE! ♪♪♫ SKINHEAD: As in “I’m in love with her and I feel fine” or “It’s the end of the world as you know it and I feel fine”? DT: The Beatles of…wait. Did you just confess to murder? SKINHEAD: Oops. Gotta go…

2- DT: Calling all units. Looks like I got drunk and passed out again. Send the Wino Wagon to …wait! Never mind. I’ll just drink some coffee and… I’m so confused…

Who else reads 704 Hauser on their little laptop screen as Ton Hauser and then starts humming Wagner’s Tannhauser Overture in response? Yeah. Me too. Even though it’s not very hummable…

boy, won’t the real bad guys get happy to see that… only to find out it was a fake. :j

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Have you ever had any lovers?”

“No. Just moments of weakness”

Marcelo Mastrioanni & Julie AndrewsA FINE ROMANCE—1992

Er…..The Brow? Wowsers!

CHRISTMAS TIME

1938—Karpse burns to death. Everybody cheers.

1939—-Tracy tries to help Binnie Viller forget Stooge Viller is her father, and sees her through Christmas

1940—Junior is in the hospital with two broken legs after Deafy backed a truck over him. They bring Christmas to his hospital room.

Is he really dead? Or is this a cosplay reenactment?

Wasn’t Archie Bunker’s address 704 Hauser Street?

OT: Mr. Stupid (no, not the most hopeless of Tracy baddies) needed on old draft of a book so part of it could be integrated into SKORPION, a space opera entry I’m meaning to finish and submit. So off to the old laptop I went.

30-freaking-minutes to get into it as it evidently decided to do a massive update when I turned it on. Then another 45 minutes checking through many, many text files. OH, how I did laugh. Sedation put an end to that, though.

In all, I ended up transferring 179 stories including partials not completed and final edits on others. Good thing I have several external mini-drives.

I just gotta get me one of them Yellow Coats!

TRACY: Good HEAVENS! D.B. COOPER!!!?!!!!

COOPER (not quite dead yet): And I’d have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling cops and your little pal Sniff ’Em Out Sam!

BREAKING NEWS!! Negotiations between Tracy and the syndicate are stalling. The latter threatens to replace Tracy and Sulking Sam with Captain Caveman and Scrappy Doo. Crimeland rejoices! Break out the bootleg Mr. Pibb.

They haven’t been doing much lately, and will work REEEEALLY cheaply.

I don’t intend this as a negative comment to any of the newer creative teams around Dick Tracy, but over the last several years we have seen many “breaks” in the continuity for re- runs of previous story lines, “Minute Mysteries” (of greatly varying quality), and even re- runs of Minute Mysteries. Rather, I’d like to stop and think again of the remarkable work of Chester Gould. For more than 45 years; through a depression, a World War, undoubtedly through sickness, vacations, and all sorts of personal events both joyous and tragic, for 7 days a week, a new Dick Tracy strip appeared in newspapers across the country. I realize he had assistants, and possibly they didn’t get as much credit as they deserved. However, I would guess that the vast majority of work was from Gould himself. And this was in a time when a cartoonist’s work was more “labor intensive” than today; no computers, lettering and inking was all done by hand, etc. I guess I can’t say positively, but judging by the IDW books that I have read, anyway… I don’t think there was a single instance of a “re- run.” Am I correct? To keep up that type of creativity and quality across five decades is amazing, and probably something that will rarely be seen again.

Turning off the snark for a moment:

I have to admit that the member of the club would have to be experts in make-up to cosplay their faces as they are, assuming that they didn’t hire an expert to do the job. Although we probably won’t be shown Eugene’s face (I don’t recall if they showed it the first time this story ran — and please, no spoilers).

704 Hauser is where Archie Bunker lived at in All In The Family

Ya’ KNOW, this club setting had me think of a club-set murder from the ELLERY QUEEN radio chow (I have large Old Tm Radio collection, high on the detective side), in which Queen and his gal Friday are invited to a club and ‘Santa Claus’ is murdered.

OT: I think one of my favorites had Frank Nelson as Anthony Lion. Evidently they retooled a series and he got the role that time.

More sloppy work from Dick. He just assumes the guy is dead without checking. Hopefully the guy isn’t hanging on by a thread and will now die anyway when Dick doesn’t call an ambulance.

ANOTHER MISSING LINK—-the baby Toby Townley(now Patton’s wife) had with Kress Kroywen.