Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 19, 2020

She’s onto something … ✨

It doesn’t work, so they never searched it?

Found the gold mine?

Good morning™, rescuers !

Is Coney going into withdrawal off screen ?  Everyone has a job to do.

What money is in there, if it IS there, belongs to the building’s owner(s)!

True love means never having to remove tape from your kidnapped fiancee’s mouth before bolting to the rest room in search of Stooge’s loot. Guy is a lucky, lucky man.

Good morning™, readers!

I told you that Shaggy-looking guy was there somewhere. There’s a limit to how many characters you can successfully show in a small comic strip frame.

It’s a good thing that Tracy is there to help out Guy Wyre while Dethany goes running off. Otherwise, he’d still be struggling with that gag.

Is this storyline already ended??

That bathroom doesn’t work? Is the drain plugged with money? Must have been a government office.

I knew somebody had to pee! But seriously, there literally have been people to find treasure in a toilet…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UDReIYiU0NA

I think the artist gave Tracy the wrong pair of hands. : )

The bathroom in the basement of my apartment building no longer works. But unlike that one, it’s locked securely.

So Dethany realizes that the bathroom wasn’t on the blueprints she’s seen and concludes it’s a false front? And that if she finds long-abandoned property the laws in Tracytown allow her to keep it? Nice wedding present.

Yeah, it’s got all this money clogging the toilet…

plain sight—hidden in plain sight. Sigh! I guess the police weren’t very thorough during the initial phases of the original arrest.

so sam is pushing a guy out the door without putting him in cuff, tracy is letting an unarmed civilian wander around the building that might have other thugs in it. can some give Ron Kuby a call ? he’ll have coney and co out in 5 minutes.

How much money are we talking about anyway ?

—And why do you suppose that “that bathroom doesn’t work”? Could there be something clogging the plumbing? Sam is too clever for his own good in panel 2; this “non-working” bathroom may turn out to be important (“Chekhov’s Toilet”). And maybe finally Guy will get to say something of value! Stay ’tooned….

So, she leaves the love of her life gagged and tied up to check out a bathroom that hasn’t worked in years. How did she guess the treasure was in there?

Coney: “You guys never looked in that bathroom?”

“But boss, the door was locked.”

Is Deathany going to change into something more comfortable for Guy? If she is, must be in hurry to forget to untie him.

Maybe it’s Coney’s secret stash.

She might have spotted this: https://cdn-o.fishpond.com/0039/625/630/172560852/original.jpeg

1-HOWDY DOOGIE: POLICE BRUTALITY! POLICE BRUTALITY! OWWW!

2-SAM: Big baby! You’re lucky they don’t make phone books anymore. WHAP, WHAP! And hoses ain’t been the same since they switched from rubber to some non-kinking concoction. Our hands are tied behind our…oh. Can somebody lend me some cuffs? Mine are in that car I lost and….

3-DT: Somebody get a bucket of water. This seems a perfect opportunity to test that Water Boarding thing I heard about.

SAM: Seeing as he’s not part of the gang, what info would you be trying to get?

DT: Never hurts to get to the truth, Sam. Even from the victims. Now get that water. GUY PRONOUNCED GEE: MMMFFFF! WTH!

Yesterday Dethany seemed to get a surprise when she sat on her boyfriend and today she’s running off to the bathroom. She’s a different kind of crazy, but the kind I like.

It’s like that garage scene in The French Connection, “I’ve gone over every inch of that car for the drugs except for the rocker panels!” Here, “I’ve reached every inch of this building for the money except for the bath room!”

I wanna see Coney being frog marched to the paddy wagon.

“Look at this, Dick. Under the paint, this toilet’s solid gold. Some kind of sickie, eh?”

Could the money that Coney and company were looking for be in that bathroom? Nah! It’s just my imagination running away with me. Ooh goodness, if the money of Stooge what’s-his-name is there….well Joe and Mike….your mission should you decide to accept is to draw “kick me” signs on the backs of: Coney, Howdy and Shaggy who was nabbed by Sam. There’s goes my “maybe he was sent to the store for ice cream” theory out the window.

On to the next story, with this one I thought Joe and Mike was going to be cooking with gas. Instead they are using Bunsen burners and Sterno cans. Gentlemen, you cannot cook food with burners and cans. All you can do is warm it up.

She left Guy tied up because she Likes him that way.

Women and small bladders, heh?

DT is so good he doesn’t need to look at what he’s doing.

So Sam carries the Beretta or the Walter PK?

They got Howdy and Shaggy and Coney. I wonder if Wilson happened to be there as well?