Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 23, 2010

I’d cry too if I was being questioned by a cop with a hand growing out of his stomach.

Butterfly tattoo - better than dental records and DNA!

Panel 2: “I think the positive I.D. brings the case to who murdered your husband.”

Time to call in the grammar police?

“I think the positive I.D. means this case is now a murder investigation.”

What’s next?

“Give it up. This confrontation brings us to the gun, throw it down!”

Flight Suit said:

“I’d cry too if I was being questioned by a cop with a hand growing out of his stomach.”

I’d hate to see what is growing out of Tracy’s bellybutton.

Note that the homeless guy now has a satchel… full of money, I bet!

Tracy and Penny are now back at the mansion. It appears that DT has lost his right arm… but he still has a hand!

Another great beginning to another awesome week of Dick Tracy! I really love how the first panel captures the pathos and indignity of homelessness, yet also evokes a sense of compassion and charity!

This segues quite nicely into panel two, where we see that even the rich and powerful are not immune to misery.

Lastly, panel three wets our appetite, making us yearn for more installments and the solution to this spine-tingling murder mystery!

Oh shoot, I meant to log in as SimonPenn before posting that!

I thought that he had hundreds of enemies…?

Perhaps someone who hated him Tracy.

Wait a minute! How does Tracy know Mr. 3D was murdered? The medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. Maybe Mr. 3D had a heart attack while he was playing in the pond.

Flight Suit said, “Another great beginning to another awesome week of Dick Tracy!”

Makes life worth living, doesn’t it, Flight Suit?

margueritem said:

“Lint balls, and deadly aminitas….”

I think that’s a followup to my bellybutton comment. Or is that a poor English translation of a Uzbekistanian curse?

Great job, Flight Suit. Maybe we should call you SimonPoisonPenn.

VistaBill said:

“Wait a minute! How does Tracy know Mr. 3D was murdered? The medical examiner found no evidence of foul play. Maybe Mr. 3D had a heart attack while he was playing in the pond.”

No fair! You’re paying attention to details.

Panel-Panner that was a follow up to your belly button question.

Who would kill him? Someone who hated butterfly tattoos perhaps…

Panel 1: Feed the birds, tuppence a bag, tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag!

In the satchel by the bum Sits some money, quite the sum Who could this mysterious person be Oh what, could give us a positive I.D.? Why are some people to him, so cruel Does he also have a tattoo, one of a mariposa azul? And what is the reason for the death That Tracy has murder on his breath No trauma, no poison, not even scurvy Like all the plots, this ones topsy-turvy A tear is shed for her husbands demise Or is that what we are to surmise? Could the old woman be a crook To end up making Tracy look like a schnook? But that he does well on his own Something lately for which he is prone So many red herrings on which we are fed Down so many paths which we are led It is no wonder that things are so scatter-shot When the story is made up right on the spot.

Marvee, thanks for your comment the other day. The WW is just shorthand for WonderWarthog.

How does Tracy (bright as Locher and Simon would have us belive) KNOW it was a murder and not a suicide ?

Did the Medical examiner come up with a cause of death ? Last time I heard he was still ”working” on it.

Or did Tracy get further CLUES and now holds them secretly in that hand ‘close to his chest’ ?

If not you’d have to think he’s holding out his HAND for somebody to ‘shake’ it and pat his back with congratulations. Even Simon will be impressed by how Tracy has worked HIS ONLY _ fragile clue to a point where he can now move forwaed to the next phase of the investigation

Don’t be surprised if another letter comes in the mail inviting him to join the X-Men !

OMG! Tracy lost an arm.

Flightsuit’s Simon Penn impersonation needs to be a little drippier

Is Tracy trying to escape from a straight-jacket?

Is anybody taking bets on whether that briefcase next to the panhandler contains the missing $100,000,000? Next step is to find the compacter that squeezed it down to 1/100 its former size. Remember we’re not crushing a car, that is mostly empty space. It’s going to take quite a powerful machine to crush 100,000 thousand-dollar bills into one briefcase. That machine should be easy to find – search all the mad scientists’ laboratories. How many mad scientists are there in Naperville?

-Cougar :{)

Love the comments on the current strip…..Just curious, do any of you Dick Tracy fans remember the Dick Tracy artist Rick Fletcher? He was Gould’s assistant from1961, and then took over the strip December of 1977 until his death in March of 1983.

All will be revealed in time for Christmas.

great detective work spacy – i seem to remember penny saying on more than one occasion that 3D had lots of enemies; maybe she should start naming some names.

a positive id based on a butterfly tat no evidence of foul play (but there are remnants!) so it’s a murder investigation someone is walking around with $100m – perhaps a trip to the bank is in order?

yep great detective work!

Gee,Mr. Homeless Man–Where did you get the Gucci brief case?

Rick Fletcher was a great artist and storyteller…he’s is missed tremendously.

Panel 3: Mrs. D is so distraught by the $100 million withdrawal that she is reduced to selling billboard space on the side of her mansion to Locher & Co.

I agree Rightwingmoron and andyh40….I think Rick was a fantastic artist as well as storyteller, I have some of his Dick Tracy original artwork, and in my opinion he really carried on Gould’s traditions as well as touches of his own making every panel a work of art in combination with the story lines from Max. Which is how it should be.

I remember when Dick Tracy was the first strip on the Sunday comic section in the Chicago Tribune, now it’s buried on the back page……how sad is that???

Moonmaid, what day of the strip is your icon from? And who drew her?

Thanks,

Fishbulb

“who would kill him?” “everybody hated him”

I agree the beggar is 3=D and suggest that he has a female accomplice. But why not leave town instead of slowly retrieving the money in this way?

I give up and will rely on Dick Tracy, America’s foremost detective.

so, everyone wanted him dead, like in the orient express movie so, he killed one of the guys, someone who had this same tattoo that only his wife remembers, and is now posing as a panhandler until the heat dies down and he can escape to aruba easy-peasey

The windows in the 3D mansion are much larger on the inside than they are on the outside.

Tracy’s head in the second panel looks awfully big for his body. Almost looks those pictures that they put someone else’s head on.

fishbulb- The icon from comicspage.com, in a section on Dick Tracy that had some of the characters and when they made their debut. I thought the Miss Moonmaid portrait was very cool not too mention the caption! Gould was the artist for this particular drawing…I believe. Her first appearance according to the article was December 31, 1963. Also in Wikipedia there is a bio on her under “Moon Maid (comic)” that is very interesting too! Hope it helps…..