Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 24, 2021

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Good morning™, everyone!

Well, we leave Rikki to brew up a baby for the next several months and now turn back to Tracy. So, if he now knows that the Apparatus is “up to something big,” what should be his next move?

Good morning™, calm before the storm !

Keep a weather eye on that time stuff, guys.

Re Ray’s wife’s recovery. At our “age” these things can take longer and may she regain full use of the arm.

Did Ace stage a coup?

They’ve all switched to chewing tobacco because cigars weren’t evil enough.

A good example of what Ray was talking about the other day, having to do with “talking heads” in motion. We see different poses as the women make up a bed.

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Chief Patton- “Of course the city is strangely quiet, Tracy, It’s 4am in the morning. What’s the matter with you?!”

“Snitches”? That’s disrespectful to “confidential informants”!

Is Sam out looking for the Pouch, who can give the skinny on all this uneasy quiet going on ?

1-CHIEF: GOSH AND BEGORRAH, TRACY, that would be a nice hat you’re sportin’ there.

DT: Yeah, and it’s functional too. You ever see Odd Job in the Goldfinger movie, Chief?

2-CHIEF: Odd Job? Goldfinger? I won’t be discussin’ my afterhours predilections with you, boy-o.

3-DT: Ummm, well, moving on. A few days ago we managed to work a C.I. who looks just like J. Jonah Jameson into the Apparatus and he’s telling us…

CHIEF: JAMESON!!! Well now, that’s a fine job you’ve done there, Tracy. Keep up the good work. I’ve something to do now. Show yourself out. There’s a good lad…

DT: STUPID STUPID STUPID!!! I just had to say “Jameson”. The Chief will be half way through a bottle of the stuff before I close the door behind me…

GLUG GLUG GLUG.

Yes, the Apparatus is up to something big….to take something which is “little”.

“The usual criminal activity is around”….so I suppose drug deals, domestic violence, car break-ins, robberies and shootings fall under this category. Wow…like Mister Rogers….“it’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood”…

“Our snitches say the Apparatus is up to something big. They’ve changed leaders”. Far out, man like royalty, they have a line of succession.

“I Don’t care what you do to Sullivan.But with that priest it’s got to look like an accident”

ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES——1938

Aha! Snitches say: a new leader at The Apparatus. That’s BIG! Never mind the usual wave of street crime—that’s just background noise.

And Chief Patton concurs. After all, he and Tracy are old buds, former partners. They think alike…..