Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 17, 2012

Egads! Vitamin Flintheart has become the Mole’s agent!?Does that mean he’ll be getting 10 percent?On the positive side, we now see Thunderchild has excellent taste in motion pictures!(And to think, I have to wait 24 hours to see what happens next!)

Good morning fellow DT fans…

Good morning, VB!I’m glad that Vitamin has Mole’s best interests at heart.

@MrBribery’sShrunkenHeads from yesterday

Vitamin was a regular in Collins strip even after that four year mark. He figures prominently in Uppward Lee Mobile from 1986, as well as the premiere of Putty Puss in October of 1987. Possibly more after, but we are dealing with a period of which I do not have a whole lot of familiarity. Then we move to Kilian, where Vitamin did not appear regularly, at least compared to Diet Smith (who appeared at least once a year and often more) and B.O.Plenty (about once a year, year and a half). Unfortunately, we never saw Locher’s take on the character, though we did get Diet Smith with some regularity and quite a bit of B.O. I would have thought that the Johnny Nothing story would be a good place to include the character. Oh well. Moonrock was back in the summer of 2005, which makes Vitamin’s last appearance about seven years ago.

Aaron

Good for you Vitamin! Wow, that’s a really big TV!

Vitamin is renowned for his campy rôle in “Abbott and CostelloMeet Columbus,” one of several late 1940s-early 1950s movies they made. And Thunderchild is a big fan! This is an interesting turn of events. I expect it will either complicate or facilitate Paddy’s plan (depending on what her plan is)….

Awww…Now I want to see Vitamin do the entire “Who’s on First” routine…

Do wrestlers really sit around in their costumes when they are not in the ring, or working in some way? Then again, this is Dick Tracy, where lots of characters are somewhat “over-the-top”.

Talk about perfect timing. Maybe if I talk about Angelina Jolie she’ll show up at my door.

More good work from Team Tracy. This strip just keeps getting better and better.

Thunderchild’s drink has been sucked into the television!

So, *Thunderchild*is a fan could make things a little interesting.I’m wondering if Thunderchild is truly a villain. Or is he merely Patti Cure’s pawn.

idesama – thanks for the update. I know very little of Dick Tracy 82-93.

Why does he have this scared and worried look in his eyes in panel 2?

Good afternoon " Tracy Tribe" . Enjoy whats left of the day !!

I, Columbus was the one Who was First. What’s Amerigo saying? He was Second! I Don’t Know if Magellan was Third.

Right. Look up the word “drama” and there’s a picture of Vitamin right there. He’s awesome. Tracy has such a wealth of great characters, great to see Vitamin again.

Three panels of Vitamin and he has yet to toss back a handfull of vitamin pills. Is that a record?

OK – attribute this sloooooow realization to far too many lost hours reading comics and inhaling the fumes of Testor’s glue while putting together models as a youth…

…but Joe Staton…is this the SAME artist who rendered pages of my all-time favorite DC comic…The Metal Men????

@De Hunt:I know that Dick Locher was the artist on the Upward Mobile story, which featured Vitamin quite a bit, but I think Collins was the writer. Don’t know if Locher ever wrote a story with Vitamin in it.

Just a note here. We will see Jerry King back in a bit, in action.

Thank you, gentlemen, for bringing back Vitamin!