Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 04, 2012

Nice Terry!

Happy Independence Day All…

A fitting tribute, Mike! It doesn’t get any better.

Thank you, Mike and Joe, and a

Happy Fourth to all!

Wow! Great strip… But can’t wait to get back to the action! Happy 4th all.

Nicely done! And a happy, safe Fourth, everyone!

Nice Job Mike and Joe! Well Done!!

Happy Fourth of July to All the great Dick Tracy Fans everywhere. And let’s not forget our Servicemen that give all for us to be free. Thank you!

STAR SPANGLED BANNERRIP Whitney, we’ll miss you.

Great tribute! Happy Independence Day, everyone. And Thank You, Mike, Joe, & the entire crew!

Awesome tribute, everybody. And Happy Independence Day to one and all.

Great strip.

Have a wonderful 4th, everyone.

Excellent Jerry.

It is very much in character for Dick Tracy to take patriotic note of our nation’s birthday! HAPPY 4th OF JULY to all involved with Team Tracy and to the fans of the new and vastly improved adventures of Dick Tracy!—But I am on tenterhooks to get back to the showdown at Mr Crime’s lair, too!

Okay, I’ve had enough. You simply have to stop Joe. If you make one more piece of art that demands to be framed and placed on my bedroom wall, I’m going to go broke.

Aaron

I rather suspected this would happen. Bravo, Team Tracy! :D

Nice touch guys. I’m sure Tracy wouldn’t want it any other way today. God Bless America.

I dont mind being #21 with such an AMAZING one panel shot! Happy 4th everyone!

is there any way to get this panel without the mr crime blurb? it would look AWESOME on my facebook page! :-D lol

You can almost feel the snap of Dick Tracy’s salute.

Nicely done.

Love it too! Happy Birthday America! All be safe and have a good one!

Mike, Joe et al…thank you for this patriotic celebration and to all here in the forum – Happy 4th!

Awesome! I LOVE AMERICA!

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!!!!!!!!GOD Bless America – - – - - – - – - and success to the Army!--That being said – - – the actual correct salute for Tracy would be to remove his hat, hold his right hand over his heart, with his hat over his left shoulder. But what the heckle.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!God Bless our Troops!

That’s OK – we all know the bad guys will go down!Happy Fourth everyone!

Hoo-rah!

Great strip!Happy Birthday, America!

This is a first for the Dick tracy strip, isn’t it? To my knowledge, Chester Gould never did anything like this, but today’s strip is absolutely brilliant! Joe Staton has never been better on art. Love this guy! And love America as well. Happy 4th to everyone.

Happy Fourth of July, everyone..A doubly special day for me. It’s also the anniversary of my first date with my wife, Katy. Two years later, it was the day I proposed. So, in a sense, I celebrate the LOSS of my independence. But no man gave it up more willingly.

Absolutely classic Tracy. Thanks Joe & Mike. Happy Fourth!

" God Bless America "

I prefer what The Comics Curmudgeon had to say about this strip.

But why is Tracy saluting? Inasmuch as he is wearing civilian clothing, should he not have removed his hat and held it over his heart as the approved sign of respect for the national flag? Traditionally and historically, the saute evolved from the act of raising the visor of one’s armored helmet to reveal the face and show that one is a friend or ally. Consequently, has not the act always been appropriate only for a person in a military uniform? (Yes, I know that the act has evolved to include a person in pretty much any sort of uniform such as police, Boy Scouts, and firefighters, but I really can’t quite define Tracy’s trench coat and hat as a uniform.)

Perfect tribute to this holiday. Happy 4th to all.

Happy Independence Day, but I am expecting a lot of fireworks when the story line continues tomorrow.

Great Strip!

We welcome the return of VistaBill

Whose life it seems is one big thrill

And though he was tempest tossed

His voice to us has not been lost

Through wind and rain

And strum und drang

He returns now to the fold

With many harrowing tales to be told

Welcome back VB, your just in time

To see the demise of Mister Crime

We pause now in our story

To give a tribute to Old Glory

To the founding of this nation

We are filled with feelings of elation

So eat a dog, drink some ‘ade

And kick back in the shade

And tonight, when colors fill the sky

To our country, raise your glasses high.

Thank You, wndwrthg!

A strip worthy of Chester Gould!

Oh, what’s that, Communist? You’re just a little too busy on this July 4th Freedom America day to admire the US flag? Dick Tracy would like to have some words with you. He’s in the middle of a bloody shootout with Mr. Crime’s gang, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have time to find an enormous American flag and salute it! Those explosions behind him aren’t fireworks; they’re actual gunfire. Dick Tracy won’t let mortal danger get in the way of his patriotism!

It’s hard to see looking at the colored version of this daily but check out the black and white version at ComicStripNation.com to truly appreciate Joe’s amazing line work on the stripes of the flag.