Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 13, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

At least we have a clear purpose, stated by the bad guy himself. Gameboy’s objective is to make a profit.

Good morning™, hand writing sample providers !

He surely has to have been in somebody’s jail before. They may be able to trace the sample to a person. If that don’t work then they will have to ‘do a Batman’ and start looking for thematic clues that they can use to have people stationed at the kind of places where “games hang out”. Like when the Riddler leaves a riddle-clue, that Bats always, geniusly, and with self pompostic fanfare, spells out exactly where to “meet” the Riddler for the end-of-show showdown.

So we know the answer is that he’s going for Boom, but the question will be. How long before the Bust.

Why didn’t we get a similar taunt(?) from our criminal genius at the bank? “I could have worked a legitimate job to earn money, but armed robbery is quicker. – Gameboy”

If I were Tracy & Sam, I’d start cross-referencing bank robbers, board game collectors, & subscribers to The Wall Street Journal.

The criminal’s real name is … NINTENDO !!!

This looks like a job for The Caped Crusader!

Probably a relative to the jumbler, lol

In a surprising turn of events, Gameboy turns out to be Junior Tracy

“Then I remembered that I was a thief, so I just stole it.”

It’s subtle, but here again we have Mike placing Tracy one or two steps away from the action. Chester Gould would have had Tracy find that note, and he would have placed Tracy in the lab analyzing it. Here we have Tracy and Sam sitting at their desks while others feed them the clues.

Tracy and Sam need to figure out what game Gameboy is playing. Right now they don’t even know the rules.

He going to sell the game on an auction website?

Good grief. The Joker and The Riddler must be groaning at this.

“HoooooooooEEEEEEEEEEE, all you Happy, Hyper Hipsters and Super Superb Swingers out there in Terrific Tracy Town! This is your Dashingly Dynamic Deejay, Jumpin’ Jivin’ JPuzzle The Whiz at the Bold, Boss BMBG here, and we’ve got a new Fierce, Ferocious Felon in town who seems to have a Powerfully Potent Penchant for Great, Groovy Games! And I think I’ll just play this Highly Hot Hit tune for you!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_4xktFy4Dw

MOVIE QUOTE—

“It’s an invasion of privacy!”

“You in the bath would stop any invasion!”

Joan Sims&Kenneth Williams—-CARRY ON SCREAMING—1966

1-DT: I may need glasses Sam. I find myself squinting a lot these days. I must be feeling my age – about 99 they tell me. I’m not even interested in this por-no game site.

2-SAM: Well, you do need glasses. And hearing aids. And given the fact that you haven’t gotten out of that chair in a week – a walker. HOWEVER, that’s NOT a por-no gamesite, though I can see how “Bust” might’ve confused an old geezer like you.

3-SAM: Luckily these Wrist-Thingees come with a handy eye test. See if you can read this. DT: What? SAM: I said SEE IF YOU CAN READ THIS!!!

DT: Oh. “I” mumble mumble “GAMEBOY!” I think I’m good for another 50 years at least! Now roll me into the toilet and help me empty this catheter bag.

Those who leave taunting clues always end up trapping themselves.DIck is a believer that “slow and steady wins the race”.he always lets the swellheads keep on talking,knowing they’ll paint themselves into a corner.

See Art Dekko and 1951’s Dr.Plain.This new villain will soon be caught in a…MOUSE…TRAP!!

And don’t go to Cut Famon’s gas station…he’ll overcharge you.

Tracy, Sam, Lee, and Liz may need assistance from police officers who are members of Generation X and the Millennials to catch this Gameboy fellow.

Imagine this…MCU attending a workshop about board games.

“But that would have cut into my profit”. Does this guy play the stock market?

ok, here’s the latest update as to what’s in my future when it comes to dealing with my sciatic situation… I shall have to endure this for seven more days (may God help me survive these coming days, as I don’t think I can bear it much longer) til April 20 at 340 pm… the referral has been faxed to their office and that is when I will FINALLY (I HOPE) get some answers… in the meantime, I am so out of my mind with the pain, that I have just ordered a product off Amazon called… well, here it is…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08JCR1J2S/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I’m just out of mind with this flaring off and on pain, that I’m willing to try ANYTHING in the meantime, even if it only temporarily blocks the pain… and I don’t give a schitt about the price… intense pain makes people do desperate things and I’m desperate at this point, now that I have to wait seven more days… and THAT’S where I stand at the moment… or SIT, as the case may be… and NOT very comfortably, as my right ass-cheek hurts something fierce when I attempt to sit on it and that’s when I have to adjust my seating arrangements accordingly… so now it’s a matter of waiting for the Amazon product and waiting to see the doctor…

God give me strength.. this is NOT going to be an easy seven days…

Ouch.

well, here’s an update to the update above and the madness never ends in my case… after I set the appointment, I was told a couple of hours later that that particular pain specialist is NOT in my network, as I am an HMO… so I had to cancel THAT appointment and I connected with a neurologist, based on a referral from my primary… NOW I need to have my primary send an order to La Grange hospital for an MRI, which was NOT done during any of my visits to the ER or during my three-day stay at La Grange… what do I know?… I was standing up, lying down and all positions inbetween for tests… and the doctor TOLD ME HIMSELF that MRI’s showed I was good… they NEVER TOOK an MRI, BUT he SAID they DID… I called La Grange imaging and inquired as to whether an MRI was taken during my stays and they said NO and that my last MRI was done back in 2018… so that doctor straight up lied to me… so now I have to wait for the order for an MRI to be sent to La Grange and THEN once they receive it, THEN I can schedule an appointment and once THAT’S scheduled, THEN I can set up an appointment with the neurologist, where HOPEFULLY, he will have everything he needs… which at the moment, for ME, it means that I have no idea as to a timeframe as to when I will get SOME sort of relief, but I’m reckoning possibly 2-3 weeks, but I’m guessing, could be less, could be more, but with the way things have been going and we’re talking about yours truly, probably MORE… and now that I know that no MRI was done and the doctor looked at an MRI from five years ago, there MAY possibly be something that has not been detected, as of yet at the present time… don’t you just love the way the medical community functions for the swift well-being of the patient who needs relief as quickly as he needs to and as his pain level dictates?… bullschitt…

Gameboy continues to taunt the po-po, and that could lead to his downfall. I still wonder, however, what can make the bridge between where we are now in this story and its eventual ending. We can’t sustain on “a robbery a day,” can we?

Um, how could he have bought it if in was in a museum?