Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 11, 2017

The Paragon is never wrong, in fact they think they’re great

They take what they say is their due, without malice or hate.

BO says he paid in full, then produces a receipt

To cover all the nut that way is rare and must feel sweet.

The Judge he sees that paperwork, he shakes his head and sighs

To pay in cash may make a splash, yet prepare to dry your eyes.

What’s yours is theirs. What’s theirs is theirs. You must now see the fix

Pandora’s Box has opened up. Deregulated tricks!

That moved very quickly.

Good morning guys!

Why is the judge wearing sunglasses in the courtroom??

I wonder who’s name is on that receipt? They took the cash money and didn’t record it in the bank’s records.

Now he doesn’t need a lawyer so much as a barber. B.O.’s hair is almost frightening in that helmet he usually wears.

Woe to those who venture in

The horror show’s about to begin

Hold your nose the stink is real

Definitely sick is what you’ll feel

Fortunately swift this story seems to move

And hopefully the boys will find thier grove

So just hold your breath and wait to see

If soon the strip brings joy and glee

finally got to know B.O.’s name!

The closest real-life counterpart to B.O. today would be the WWE wrestler Enzo Amore. They share buggy eyes & shocking hair styles, or lack of styles.

Where’s the fine print? There was a case years ago, a man brought his full mortgage payment to the bank in pennies. The bank refused the payment and his mortgage was discharged. The fine print: anytime the bank refuses the payment, the mortgage will be discharged.

Joe- There is a little known law stating that over twenty-five pennies is not considered legal tender. It grew out of a guy taking a wheel barrow full of pennies to his local IRS office many years ago. They’ve got all the angles covered, haven’t they?

Too many holes in this one! If BO paid cash for it, and he’s been there for ages (50 yrs?), he would have paid it to a Title Company at the closing; not the bank. The Title Co. would have issued a check to the bank if the bank was selling it as their own property. If the current foreclosure is due to a recent mortgage being taken out to collateralize a loan, then they have the onus to prove BO and Gertie made and signed the loan. The one who needs the lawyer is the bank. Being as they put it on the front page of the paper, they will need a really good lawyer, considering the damage suit BO and Gertie are getting ready to file.

Plenty never had to PAY for the house/property in the first place. The owner of that property was Diet Smith who GAVE Plenty the house/property as a reward for saving his life after Smith was shot in his bath tub. The current “house” is not the original “sales office”…the original house burned down, then got rebuilt, then many years later it was mansionilized, then rebuilt into a replica of the original house/office EXCEPT now the pillers on both sides of the front door are no longer crooked, but now straightened. Sunny Dell Acres was a real estate development that never got developed, and owned by Smith. Staton’s art work of Plenty is EXCELLENT inho.

Why isn’t Mike Curtis getting some volunteer here to check his facts?

Ongoing shots of my incident.

Descriptions under most of them. Click on pics to enlarge, again to resume.

https://flic.kr/s/aHskX1FY66

Okay, if this is bank fraud and not embezzlement by Mr. Jarman, then maybe Jarman is going to be a whistleblower?

Go Comics is glitchy and half again today, so I’m not able to peruse all the comments, as usual. But I noticed that someone said that Bob Oscar looked frightening. As I recall, that was his main feature during Gould’s days; he was frightening to look at. At least, for me, when I was a kid. Gravel Gertie was supposed to be the same, but with Sparkle and Gertie sharing the same hair style, that didn’t happen for me. In fact, the primary way for me to tell them apart was that Sparkle had yellow hair and Gertie had white hair.

Why do I suspect the judge will laugh his (boojums) off before dismissing the case?

The mortgage issue is troublesome. MCummings’ solution makes the most Real World sense, but it does not fit the story-as-written, as Neil noted. In any case, it was probably a Big Mistake for B.O. to pay in cash; it was then far too easy for Jarman to embezzle it and falsify the Paragon Bank’s books to hide his crime. Even with his receipt in hand, B.O. will have a tough legal row to hoe (though he is a “local farmer” of business-section front page headline stature, so I imagine he can handle the chore—especially if he gets some premium-grade legal help, maybe courtesy of Diet Smith or even Oliver Warbucks). So, yeah, I’m pointing an early finger at Mr. Jarman’s being involved in the illegalities, even if there is also someone else more deeply hidden….

Sisyphos beat me to it. He’s right. Paying in cash, even without embezzlement or a crime, Bob Oscar has no proof of payment. A receipt is nothing other than a signature of someone at the bank. Could it be forged? Why not? Especially if the person who signed it is no longer there. // Remember, the bank has already charged that Bob Oscar is in arrears; that makes B.O. the defendant and, right now, he has no case!

Okay, Manraj is an anagram for Jarman; Manraj is not only an Indian first name, but has a couple of interesting definitions in the Urban Dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Manraj

Is B.O. acting as his own attorney? That might explain the attempt by the judge to make a quick finding.

JUDGE (to Paragon’s lawyer): I’d like to get to right to hearing Mr. Plenty under oath. Any objections?

PARAGON’s LAWYER (puzzled): No, your honor.

JUDGE: Mr. Plenty, please take the stand.

BAILIFF: Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

B.O.: Of curse.

(Continue at row 2, panel 2)

Working the Tony awards at Radio City Music Hall. Having a splendid time.