Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 25, 2012

Lt. Teevo asking the Chief to work for Mr. Crime? Teevo isn’t very bright,is he?

Teevo shoots the chief?!? A low down dirty ratfink!

Wow!Two shots fired – Teevo’s got to be down – but how’s the chief?Love this strip!

Good morning all…

I think the “Blams!” are from Patton’s revolver. Teevo’s semi-automatic would make “Flooom!” sounds.

Why is the cop with the paperwork wearing a jacket in June?

If the chief shoots Teevo from the angle in panel 1. It’ll finally give that old rat a much-needed nose job.

Have a good one and survive your Monday, folks. See ya’ here tomorrow.

Teevo most likely knew the Chief wasn’t going to flip over to Mr. Crime’s team but he needed to stall him somehow when he went for his gun. A great strip.

Teevo reminds me of Nixon. Couldn’t trust him either.

It wasn’t that long ago when it was cold enough for snow, so Officer Doherty and Tracy can get away with the heavier gear.I would say Teevo is definitely not a red herring at this stage… ;-)

Well, Teevo is indeed a dirty ratfink, and dumb, too. My guess is that by trying to draw down on Pat Patton, he bought it. BLAM! BLAM!

Chief, I believe Mr. Crimes H.Q. is well aware Tracy and company is already there. Teevo, you would have been too late. I’m guessing Teevo was too late on the draw as well. Scratch one mole.

Chief Patton already has his weapon drawn I hope that he shoots Teevo 2 (TWO) times! He still looks like Nixon.

Another thing to consider is that the gang at the Panda Agency know what has happened because of the hidden camera. Providing that the chief is okay. Patton should look right into the camera and tell them that the jig is up and they best surrender.

Isn’t there a 2nd dirty copy? Someone in the evidence room?

Doesn’t look good for the Chief!

I’m betting this will be the fourth death that Mike teased. So long Teevo.

Teeve is a cop who carries his gun tucked in back in his belt? Isn’t that a bit irregular? Wouldn’t it be obvious?

So that pistol isn’t in Teevo’s pocket and he isn’t happy to see the Chief.

maybe chief patton shot teevo once in each shoulder, that would be nice :) no need to kill him when he is a potential witness for the prosecution… if teevo would turn on the cops then he would most DEFINITELY turn on mr crime to save his hide in a heartbeat! john russco your comment to marguerite was uncalled for and flat out rude. mdstudio, mike said there would be SIX deaths in the gunfight with mr crime’s gang…. so i’m guessing teevo is only the first… tconstantine, mike said the second mole was little face

btw, #25 today lol

Chief’s pistol isn’t cocked. But it could be a double action. Teevo wouldn’t have time to draw and throw down on Patton.

Dick Tracey just keeps getting better and better. Great art, interesting stories with plot twists. I love it!

This story just keeps rolling along, seems like forever. I’m LOVING it!

I believe both got a shot off. Hence Sgt. Doherty saying WEAPONS discharged in panel three..Good to see ya again Sarge.

“Out in the sun, two shots rang out. / One shot made Teevo fall. / But the man who shot Leutenant Teevo / He was the bravest of them all.”

You are … IMHO … wrong. I believe TeeVo is the Mole … and I’m guessing that he just shot the Chief.

Perhaps Teevo is mortally wounded, but won’t die before making a full confession of his motivation and reasoning as to why he gave in to the Dark Side. The second panel sure sounds like the start of a confession of his guilt to me.

I’m betting on Pat!

Joe,.Re your comment below:.“I can’t remember seeing an officer with a revolver in over 20 years”.In Chicago PD, new officers are required to to buy semi-automatics for used as their primary weapon. However, veterans who trained on revolvers (and remember, Pat is senior to Tracy by several years), are still allowed to carry their wheel-guns. So it’s not unusual to see coppers packing six-shooters in the Windy City.

Too bad Chief Patton didn’t have the chance to use his revolver to ask Teevo, “Do ya feel lucky, punk? Well, do ya?”

As I recall Lt. Teevo was one of the later creations of Dick Locher – and not one of the best. I shed no tears for him; he wasn’t much of a character or given much of a character by his creator. In fact since he turned out to be a rat he’s become more interesting than he ever was as a legit cop. And disposing of characters who no longer fit the strip is hardly unprecedented; Max Allan Collins killed off Moon Maid thereby ending the “space period.”

Well, I think you ought to tell - JIM DOHERTY !He’s the ’ technical ’ advisor to the Team on this sort of police minutae !

Joe,.Re your comment below:.“With the firepower that an officer is up against today, a six shot revelover would be highly impractable.”.That’s a blanket condemnation that doesn’t really stand up under examination..I prefer hi-cap semi-autos to revolvers, too. But the fact is, in most shootouts, it isn’t firepower that carries the day so much as it is shot placement. One well-placed round is more effective than vaguely pointing, and then using the “spray and pray” method of aiming. Though I prefer semi-autos, I’ve generally shot more accurately with a revolver (even making “distignuished expert” at one qualification)/.The 1986 FBI shootout in Miami is often pointed to as one of the benchmarks that signaled the end of the wheelgun as the primary police weapon in the U.S..Lost in the analysis of that incident is the fact that the two agents who lost their lives, Jerry Dove and Ben Grogan, were both using hi-cap semi-autos..Ed Mireles, who ended the fight by killing the two criminals the Bureau was trying to apprehend (and got himself an IACP “Cop of the Year” award doing so) with a .357 Magnum revolver..Platt and Mattix, the bad guys, were armed with an automatic rifle and a 12-guage shotgun, along with an assortment of handguns. Exactly the kind of superior firepower you’re talking about. .And Mireles, the last man standing after every other agent had either been killed or so badly wounded that they were too disabled to continue the fight, took ‘em both out with a six-shooter..It’s not the gun you bring to to the fight, it’s the fight you bring to the gun..“My Dept., and the ones around us, all have restrictions on what weapons you are allowed to carry. None of them allow a revolver as a primary weapon.”.That’s fine, but Tracy’s City is a fictionalized version of Chicago, and, in Chicago, revolvers are (in certain instances) allowed..They are also allowed, as it happens, in the department of your namesake, the LAPD. They are rare, but they are not unheard of..A police chief in a big city is, frankly, the officer least likely to get involved in a gunfigh in the whole departmentt. That being the case, is it really that surprising that Pat has stuck with a weapon he’s comfortable with, since usually he’d only be carrying it as a matter of form?

…….still trying to figure out what was “uncalled for and flat out rude” here on the board to Margueritem??? Anyways, maybe they should just uproot those two muerte vines for the final two killings, and save all our fun villians for further escapades, ha ha…..

Great suspense in the third panel. And on the subject of Richard Nixon, how many other politicians have their own hit squad made of CIA agents like Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis? And that is a fact. They were the ones who led the revolution to remove Batista from Cuba. And there are a lot of things that can’t be proven as fact right now.

I’ve always wondered what exactly Teevo did before his current corruption.

I think it’s very likely that Patton will survive.Who knows maybe Teevo shot himself. I don’t know. I just hope This staff does not kill off Patton. Patton is too valuable to kill off.

Shots echo down the hall

Someone has given their all

Was it that dastardly Teevo rat

Or perish the thought, good chief Pat?

Our Dick seeks to serve a warrant

Soon gunfire comes in a torrent

Tess, being where she should not be

Takes two rounds, well, maybe three

Leonard, after an act of valor

Assumes quite a deathly pallor

Panda is lying crumpled near the stair

Bullets being more than he could bear

B.B. Eyes has cashed in his chips

Now ain’t that just the ….

A slug right between the eyes

Spells the end of dear Ms. Rize

Mumbles was heard to plainly say

“I just knew I would rue the day”

And what became of Mr. Crime?

Go have a look at the muerte vine

Slowly dissolving in a sticky goo

It would seem he has got his due.

Let’s see:The Chief is using a large caliber double action revolver, already drawn.Teevo is using a small caliber hammerless semiautomatic, holstered, with a retaining strap in place.Distinctly different sounds, the revolver is a Blam!, the other is a pak!

The Chief is much too close to Teevo, well within grappling range, he should have stood several steps further away.

Neither shot may have hit anyone, as Teevo could easily have deflected the muzzle away from himself.

Teevo is a plains clothes officer, since he is not wearing a shoulder holster, the middle back is very common method of carry.

Sorry Nightgaunt, pistols have very little capability to knock someone down, unless you hit them over the head with it. That’s a movie myth.

Many modern pistols, both revolvers and semiautomatics, are built with firing pin disconnects (typically a block that only moves into position when the trigger is pulled) to prevent accidental discharges. This permits safe carry with a chambered round.Only very cheap ones don’t have this feature.

Wow. what a list of possible outcomes, errrors in wardrobe, and small arms. And, of course, wonderful poetry. I was Just thinking that a couple years ago the discussion would have been about floating buildings, missing hands, and the pig on wheels! What a great turn of events in this strip.

I almost missed this strip, as I slept most of yesterday. I’m glad I didn’t. I enjoyed Teevo’s first appearance in Tracy, but man, what a turn for the character. Fantastic storytelling here.