Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 18, 2022

They found a link! :-D

Good morning™, everyone!

Okay, so they’ve connected the hit-and-run driver to Rabbit, who was killed. That’s a start, I guess.

ZZZZZZzzzzz,,,,,

Rabbit and ferret could chew their way out of any problem growing up!

Good morning™, rogues reviewers !

Tracy must have done a family members look up otherwise why would Rabbit be on screen ?  Not said; but they must know he died of poison and that there was a puncture like what they found on the murdered underworld bigshots.

Tracy hasn’t mentioned their cousins Wally and the Beaver yet!

Tracy: "But, then, it turned out this guy wasn’t really dead, the Feds had just set up a cover for him when he went into witness protection. He’s currently hiding as a chick named “Ferret.”"

I think tomorrow’s strip should just be that blue background and word bubbles.

He’s wearing coveralls. Does that mean he’s a jack-rabbit of all trades?

Slow day at the Major Crimes Unit. Tracy checks owner of a car involved in minor accident on rain-slick street and then starts to research her family tree. Perhaps he has already realized that no crime in Tracy-ville in years has been solved by police work. Coincidence (and stupidity by the crooks) are the only ways things get accomplished.

Thankfully the city has no murders, gambling, drugs, or large scale criminal gangs to detract him from his research on the minor hit-and-run.

Alias: John Boy.

Still bit shell shocked by the typo yesterday.

“Oh, yeah. Something you already knew.”

“Exactly, Sam, and more exposition you already knew right back at you.”

Why exactly would Rabbit have a mug shot if he, as far as they knew, never committed a crime? And if he DID, then they would also have a residential address as well as his name so they would absolutely have had jurisdiction in his murder regardless of where the body was found

So the mug shot which is being shown today was a victim who got dumped into the county.

1-SAM: I’m sorry I just up and left. I wanted a little privacy while I made a date with Ferret. You know (sniff), I’ve been so lonely lately. You would a noticed if you were a better detective.

2-DT: Well there is something I did notice that you might be interested in…

3-…Ferret used to be a DUDE named Rabbit! Check it out. It doesn’t take a good detective to surmise that you’ll be cancelling that date!

SAM: Wellllll…did I mention I’ve been so lonely lately? Besides – she’s so pretty now. The rest is just a matter of plumbing options.

DT: Yeah. I guess. But I’m sticking to the chicks that don’t have a “faucet”.

“Right, Sam, but they had found evidence he was killed in ours”. And what was that evidence they found? Some city soil on the soles of the deceased? Maybe there was city dirt underneath his finger nails. Hmm…he must have had the menu of an eatery in Tracy land on him.

The physical traits of these two siblings reminds me of Rhodent,and with the flexible Tracyville timeline, could be his children or grandchildren. Rhodent was known to Tracy and Sam as the rat-faced man. The cross-dressing Rhodent dressed as a woman when he went out in public. He avoided detection by wearing a veil over his face.

Could Rhodent be their last names?

Immediately after the following episode (from 1959—only 6 years before Honeymoon Tracy was born—a mere pittance in Tracy time), Rhodent’s car caught fire from sparks on the metal rails as the car was dragged along by the train. The fire got to the gas tank and the car exploded in a fiery blast. Rhodent was burned to death in the explosion but Fatty (the kidnapped girl) was thrown clear. Plenty of storytelling but no talking heads here:

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Hold the phone! Stop the presses! Is that fellow in the mug shot wearing bib overalls? He could be a distant cousin of Snuffy Smith or Jethro Bodine or those Darlings off of the Andy Griffith Show. Oh yeah….can’t overlook Lil’ Abner.

MOVIE QUOTE

Roses are red…violets are blue…

They’ll need dental records to identify you"

VALENTINE—2001

…….a publicity shot from Archie Andrews turn in one of those creepy “Whatever you do, DON’T turn off of the main road” movies, I take it?……

Again,she got the chin right.

Meanwhile,Ape and Ferret accidentally drive into the middle of a stock-car race.

Exciting story..a week without leaving the office, what a guest writer, he’ll fit right in. BTW, No way these are Rhodent’s kids, unless there mom was a model. Rhodent was pug-ugly, this group, just homely

To Dmitroi—-Wiki/Fandom.

Congratulations.You’ve been very busy today and the Whip Chute story was badly in need of updating.

You were so busy you forgot to drop “the block” on me.Again,I ask you to let me help you fill in some blanks.

Well,it’s a 3-day Holiday so you won’t be hearing from me until Tuesday the 22nd.We shall close with Smoots Amatuma.Gangster from Roaring 20’s Chicago.he even has his own Wikipedia Page.

He was a lieutenant for The Genna Brothers;the guys whosold cheap liquor that made you go blind.

Whenever The Genna Brothers went into one of their homicidal rants(which was often),Amatuma’s function was to calm them down by singing their favorite operaarias.(He was supposed to have a great voice).

There’s something we haven’t seen in 90 years of unusual crooks.

They both have that deer in the headlights look.

Can’t mistake that stupid look.

Three panels, three headshots. Sam’s pale blue eyes (panel 1) are just plain disturbing to me. Tracy’s profile looks great in panel 2. And as for the late Rabbit’s mug shot in panel 3, well, the family resemblance to Ferret is unmistakable. Between the two of them, there are not enough brains to go around even for one!

Notice that the city in which Tracy lives and works is never mentioned by name. Even outsiders refer to it as “Tracy’s city.”