Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 09, 2012

Doubleup got shot again! Shot again!

Wow….that FBI lady can lay down the lead…

Gracious…. Will anyone be left when the smoke clears?

It looks like the S.W.A.T. team has arrived.Fritz Ann doesn’t like anyone messing with Sam except her. (grin)Hmm… Double Up is here, so where is Mumbles, weren’t they together? We saw Mumbles getting filled with lead yesterday, did he finally fall?

Good morning everyone…

Floooom!

Holy crap! They’re dropping like flies on both sides! Good shooting, Fritz Ann; you’ve got the big double-talker down at last! —And, most of all, Special Weapons and Tactics is finally on the scene! Where have they been all the while this battle has been raging?!

Just one “Ungh”? This may be the first time Doubleup didn’t repeat himself.

What’s wrong with Doubleup? He only said “UNGH”, not “UNGH.. UNGH”

Mrs. Sam isn’t going to be happy about this, but someone had to put down Doubleup.

I have a feeling Double Up won’t be giving the squad any more trouble.

… and another one falls!!!!

Number 17!! wasnt i at the same spot yesterday? lol. Damn remind me not to piss off Fritz Ann! Attack Sam and you get a belly full of lead! temper temper! SOMEONE needs anger management classes! lol! on a positive note tho.. doubleup is as dead as anyone gets in a tracy strip! has anyone been keeping score yet? mike SAID thered be six deaths… the three from the mumbles quartet, lt teevo, now doubleup.. thats six right there. lizz was stabbed, mumbles got shot three times.. we still need to see whats going on with panda, kadaver, pat patton’s status, and if tracy apprehended bb eyes. GREAT WORK MIKE, JOE, AND EVERYONE ELSE INVOLVED!!

btw maybe i am stupid, but why would sam need an ambulance? he got hit with a whip, not shot. yeh it might sting, raise a welt or break the skin but i think an ambulance might be overkill here.

Oh no … Sam Catchem caught some hot lead !

Each day is soooo good, and we cannot wait until the next.

As Sam fires the signal with his Very gun

A whip snakes in and does stun

And though Doubleups’ aim was true

He certainly is no Lash Larue

Fritz-Ann, in a show of ire

On Doubleup, opens fire

As the pistol bucks in her fist

The air is filled with a bright red mist

Through the smoke and filthy air

The swat team charges up the stair

Now that the heavy weapons have arrived

None will be leaving here alive

Compared to Panda’s place it must be said

A charnel house contains less dead

Once again we wait with breath abated

For our blood lust to be sated

Who will die and who will live?

Man, I think I need a sedagive.

Thank you, margueritem and Mike Curtis.

man!….I like the graphic action of this strip

tsull, Sam is GONNA need an ambulance after Fritz Ann p-whips him ! He’s gonna need oxygen and a defilibrator, too!

So did Fritz-Ann stop to put on her lipstick between P-1 and P-3?

(This will only make sense to those of you who saw the comic in color) What I love is, in her moment of gun-slinging deliciousness, Fritz-Ann’s lavender coat turned yellow! For one shining moment, she took on The Aura of Tracy.

Good riddance, Doubleup!I wonder, where is Panda, a and what he’s up to?

Been away and without internet for a week. Just got caught up in one fell swoop. Man reading a week’s worth of this action in one sitting is quite a delight. Great job, guys.

well, assuming Teevo (he’s GOT to be dead, seeing as the m-lady was captured alone and there’s two bodies in the vines, right?) and Double-up are dead, there would seem to be only ONE fly left to drop……so looks like we’ve just been tipped off, meaning either D-Up lives, and/or Teevo does……which actually is a possibility, because why wouldn’t Tess recognize him if he was in the vine with Vincent Vinyl?

Plus we can’t assume that Teevo’s face is visible. Perhaps the back of his head is visible. Tess also may have been referring to Vince’s nurse.

First of all, Chester Gould is smiling big time at this storyline because this is how he had the “Grotesques” get it in the end. Violently. Because as Mr. Gould believed “Crime does NOT pay!”. Secondly, if anyone ever thought that Dick Tracy was long since forgotten, start reading this strip here and go back to the beginning of this storyine. Fan-damn-tastic!

Doubleup, You’re NOT an ambulance, you’re not an ambulance, Doubleup, You’re an hearse, you’re an hearse!

One thing about Fritz-Ann, I can’t wait to see Ms. Sam’s reaction about this predicament. Maybe Sam will wind up in WORSE shape at the hospital than in this good shootout. You never know!

Who gave Double Up an triple dose of bullets?Tigger, that is FBI Agent Fritz Ann Dietrich, the provider of the warrant for this bust. She has a sort of one sided crush on poor Sam Catchem and doesn’t seem to care that he is married.She also seems to have a bit of a temper. I wouldn’t get her mad if I where you, or you might end up like poor Double Up.As for why she is yellow in panel 2, I have no idea, ask the GoComics colorist.