Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 05, 2023

“In retrospect, I should have slit his Achilles tendons.”

Good morning™, everyone!

So, the only one the police can really charge with kidnapping is Duncan, and they don’t even have him, although he was standing just down the alley, in full view of the police car. They aren’t very good police officers.

I’d like to know who Wolfe is going to “make inquiries” of, back in New York. It’s kind of left up in the air.

Good morning™, Blade Throwers !

Too bad Nero didn’t have a big honkin’ six inch hunting knife to fling at slacker Duncan. Ol’ Dunky just wasn’t doing the best job at minding the prisoner.

Nice fling tracer and follow through beam.

I thought he learned his knife skills from eating a lot !!!

Hopefully this is turning into an actual mystery

The only thing that can save this “bore of a tale” would be for Wolfe to lean in towards Tracy and let one rip!

That’s the only proper way for Mike to redeem himself!

Panel 1 reminds me of a scene in a James Bond movie, I think it was Diamonds are Forever, where 007 uses scalpel knives to take out two of Blofeld’s henchmen. Maybe the Brits studied the tactics of the Montenegrin secret service.

A sloppy contrived explanation?

My question about the knife was hear by answered how he used it to get out of confinement today, and I am in agreement with the posters today!

“Just may I say, not as lame as the Margie story”

just to let my fellow residents here at the fruitcake factory know, I have been incapacitated and am incarcerated here at Lagrange Adventist hospital in LaGrange, Illinois…I

Presumably Wolfe catches Zeck later in one of the canon stories.

I’m not very familiar with the Nero Wolfe stories. Is Wolfe’s past as a Montenegrin spy an established part of the canon?

great… so there’s a chance you might get abducted again…

Though his preferred weapon of choice is a beer bottle.

Tracy and MCU can get back to business as usual. His flashback/narration to Sam has wrapped up.

Wolfe’s actions in the period before the formation of Yugoslavia is canon. But being able to use a pocket knife as a throwing knife…?

It must have been a joy for Tracy to relate the tale of how he let everyone get away. I’m sure Sam was thrilled.

Now that we have had a 7 week “How I met Nero Wolfe” flashback / crossover; can we go back to February 26th with Sam holding a newspaper with Wolfe’s name in the headlines and asking Tracy if he saw the story?

Gee, hope those weren’t pools of blood! ;)

It’s a good thing they kept it warm wherever they were. Had Duncan a sweater on, that penknife wouldn’t have gotten near his skin. As it was, I have to believe Duncan is quite a prima donna – OUCH! I’M MORTALLY WOUNDED! THAT THING PENETRATED HALF AN INCH INTO MY SHOULDER! swoon

Yep, up in the air…………….

1-NIMROD WOLFE: Oh. I forgot the part where, like a golfer on a 300 yard drive, I pivoted my hips and put everyone of my 450 pounds into a perfect strike made with my penknife. Had I remembered to have the blade pulled out, I’m quite sure Duncan would no longer be in the land of the living…

2-…As it was, he was so badly bruised that he left to buy liniment at the nearby RexAll. And that’s when I made good my escape…

3-Any questions – OTHER THAN – “ARE YOU GOING TO FINISH THAT?”

DT: Are you…oh. Well, no then…

Wolfe trained under “Keeno The Great”,the world’s greatest criminal knife thrower

TO DMITRIO:

An addition to Flattop Jr.(1956) files.

I’ve got an obscure,self-published Batman fanzine that interviews writer Steve Englehart.he says he got the idea for “The Ghost Of Hugo Strange” from theFlattop Jr./Ghost of Skinny arc.

MOVIE QUOTE—“First you get me fired from my job.Then you get me thrown out of my hotel.Now I can’t sit on a park bench.Well,there’s one consolation.Nothing more can happen to me!”

COP:“Hey,you!Keep off the grass!”

“Well,I was wrong!”

Groucho Marx—-A NIGHT AT THE OPERA—1935

Flattop still hasn’t made a hit on Tracy. He’ll need to do that in order to be the boss.

Wounded Duncan on the loose!

Escaped Nero Wolfe on the loose!

Arnold Zeck unidentified and on the loose!

Dick Tracy on the case?