Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 13, 2016

I’ll buy that Mike is a film buff …

… but Tracy?

Probably not so much.

Looks like Kiko committed the expected stupid error and Dick Tracy will soon have him to heel….

Good morning, ✯✯ Vista Bill Raley and Comet 2 ✯✯, and everyone.

Everybody was Kung Fu FightingThose kicks were fast as lightningIn fact, it was a little bit frighteningBut they fought with expert timing

OK, well, we knew Tracy would get out of this somehow, but what of Wunbrow & Ivanov? How long til we learn their fate?

Specs’ stomach is unsettled, as bloodshed makes him queasyViolence disagrees with Specs, makes him most uneasy.Kiko left to murder Dick, a strategy unwiseWhat’s underneath those boulders may soon be drawing flies.Mendoza has a tale to tell of a secret, hidden treasureA casino named Estrella, to go there was a pleasure.The beauty of the waitresses the stuff of local folkloreThe drinks so strong, the slots so loose, exotic the décor.Mendoza makes a deal with Specs if he can spy the vaultFresh start in Costa Rica, gang leader by default.Spicy likes the sound of this, imagines gaudy baublesSpecs thinks he’ll be the King of Cash, has really lost his marbles.Elsewhere Kiko holds the gun, who does he think he’s kiddingRead now the name above the strip, of him there is no ridding.Tracy’s been in tighter spots, he’s known to be disarmingTwists the hand that holds the gun, seems Kiko won’t be harmingThe great detective here today in Cuba where they’re atIn Casino Estrella X-Ray Specs does spy a rat.

This is definitely one of my faves of your poems!

Not really believable that Kiko would be that dumb, but hey, the stories fun and it’s gonna be funner on Specs end in a bit…..

Petrosino’s story was made into a very good movie starring Ernest Borgnine called Pay or Die : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054164/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_168

It sounds like Specs has spotted the hidden vault. But what of the other two detectives?

Wait, they’re letting the guy with X-ray glasses wear them while playing cards?

A comment on "Tracy’s Hall of Fame. Petrosino’s life was made into three movies Sidney M. Goldin’s The Adventures of Lieutenant Petrosino (1912); Pay or Die (1960), starring Ernest Borgnine; and The Black Hand (1973), starring Lionel Stander.

Dick is a Ninja. He is before Batman was..Pequod, your poem astounds and abounds..

When it comes outsmarting evildoers, I don’t know who’s smarter: Dick Tracy, Superman, or Batman!

Then again, you never know about these things. Ten or so years ago, fans of the German silent cinema, including the prestigious Murneau Foundation, were convinced that every copy of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis in existence had been found, and they were still missing about twenty minutes of the original film. Pronouncing these twenty minutes lost for all time, they issued a 75th anniversary edition of what was left… only to have a 16mm print of the complete movie, including the missing twenty minutes, turn up in Argentina a couple years later! So maybe somewhere, in some corner of the world (probably a long way from Japan), a copy of the lost Japanese King Kong film might still show up.

And if anybody wants to expose every existing copy of King Kong Escapes to enough radiation to completely fog the film… I’d be all for that…

First rule of holding a captive at gunpoint – stay well out of reach. Duh!

.Good afternoon guys!.Checkin’ in late. DST adjustment! Lotta’ nice poetry today!

From the sweltering country to games of chance in the city. Specs reads the cards with keen eyes, but seems blind to the tight spot he is in. I like Casino Estrella very much. The casino brings to mind the Painted Lady’s bistro. The wide variety of locations used in the stories is quite Gouldian. While this grainy panel does not do it justice, The Painted Lady was one of many settings to captivate the imagination. Gould had a great eye for architecture and interior design. The furniture and lighting reflected thoughtful attention to detail. In both bistro and boudoir, the Painted Lady’s all too brief story was a prime example of excellent use of location. Team Tracy also excels in creating captivating locales.

Thanks to Jonathan K., Gweedo, ave09 (nice), Night-Gaunt49, Ken in Ohio, fhofmann, JPuzzleWhiz, Vista Bill and abdullahbaba999 for the kind words. Very much appreciated.

Carl Douglas lives!…………………………..

Elsewhere Kiko holds the gun, who does he think he’s kiddingRead now the name above the strip, of him there is no ridding.These lines also remind me of the silly poems Spots’ partner in crime Ogden was always spouting, all the way through that story. I’m reading that continuity now, in the IDW reprint book.

Substitute Gweedo for Speedo and… everybody will be talking about our own Gweedo!.“Speedo” by the Cadillacs (1955) is one of my all time favorites!.Look and Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpmmbhHo2rk.“Well, they often call me Speedo‘Cause I don’t believe in wastin’ time

Well, I’m known some pretty womenAnd that’s caused them to change their minds

Well now, some may call me, MoeSome may call me, JoeJust remember SpeedoHe don’t never take it slow

Well now, they often call me SpeedoBut my real name is Mr. Earl

Well now, they often call me SpeedoBut my real name is Mr. EarlUmm-hm-hm

And now they got to call me Speedo‘Til they call off makin’ pretty girls"

And sometimes they keep searching in the same places hoping that the guys who searched previously made a mistake because they weren’t as diligent as they are. every so often some fan comes to the CBC Television archives to hunt for the Doctor Who serial “Marco Polo.” The episode aired in Canada and that may have been the only place outside of Britain. The CBC doesn’t have a copy, but these people keep coming because they’re sure that the professional archivists and all of the previous groups who have looked for this were wrong and it is there somewhere collecting dust. It isn’t.

I suppose “the rat in the trap” is code-speak for the treasure in the Star Casino. So Specs has fulfilled his side of the purported agreement and is ready for a gang in Costa Rica and the Good Life with Spicy. The trouble is that he does not really understand the ways of gangsters like DJ or those who employ them.But Tracy’s try against Kiko has a fair chance of succeeding, since Kiko has dropped the gun; and although Kiko is a big and strong thug, Tracy has the edge of surprise and his own years of hand-to-hand combat experience to draw on.For confirmation on the fate one way or the other of Wunbrow and Ivanov, we still wait (I confess I had expected it today!), and may have to wait a while if the fight between Tracy and Kiko lasts through another day or two of strips….

Perhaps the only thing they have is their facial features (along with Rip Haywire and Clutch Cargo).

Gweedo said,So that’s what you kids were jivin’ to back in prehistoric times !-—————————————————————————————.The 1950s were wonderful times, Gweedo!.

Gweedo graphically responded,Maybe one day I’ll have me one-a those, perhaps in a wagon. *-—————————————————————-.That is a 1957 Chevrolet. The two door model was called a Nomad. The 1957 Chevrolet was a real beauties. Mine was white as in the picture.

Did someone say …

Specs’ stomach is unsettled, as bloodshed makes him queasy

Violence disagrees with Specs, makes him most uneasy.

Kiko left to murder Dick, a strategy unwise

What’s underneath those boulders may soon be drawing flies.

Mendoza has a tale to tell of a secret, hidden treasure

A casino named Estrella, to go there was a pleasure.

The beauty of the waitresses the stuff of local folklore

The drinks so strong, the slots so loose, exotic the décor.

Mendoza makes a deal with Specs if he can spy the vault

Fresh start in Costa Rica, gang leader by default.

Spicy likes the sound of this, imagines gaudy baubles

Specs thinks he’ll be the King of Cash, has really lost his marbles.

Elsewhere Kiko holds the gun, who does he think he’s kidding

Read now the name above the strip, of him there is no ridding.

Tracy’s been in tighter spots, he’s known to be disarming

Twists the hand that holds the gun, seems Kiko won’t be harming

The great detective here today in Cuba where they’re at

In Casino Estrella X-Ray Specs does spy a rat.