Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 08, 2024

Fata doing the Jim Phelps/Ethan Hunt scenario…

Time for the train derailment/car crash unsatisfying ending!

Good morning™, everyone!

So, does that mean that Vitamin’s dressing room wall concealed a direct entrance to the secret tunnels? These secret tunnels have been appearing a lot in the strip lately, all of a sudden.

Was Baxter’s cover really blown? I saw no indication that Tracy knew that Baxter was really Fata. Maybe I missed it.

Bootleggers’ tunnels…helped the playhouse get on the historic buildings list. Probably brought back fond memories for Tracy.

I see the light solution, leave it to a two-way wrist device.

She is going to change out in the open like that. What? No SUV?

Snowing…six more weeks of Winter in Tracyland.

And how did Fata know about the bootlegger’s tunnels?

Does she only perform at theaters that used to be speakeasies?

And how does Bosco asking, “Hey, are you a hit man?” blow Baxter’s cover?

Why was Tracy at the theater, with a squad of cops, before Bosco asked the question that supposedly blew Baxter’s cover?

If a stranger comes up to you and asks if you’re willing to kill someone does it mean that you’re a cross-dressing assassin?

The mind reels and boggles at questions that have no answers. Time for another cappuccino and more dark chocolate. Maybe it will make sense after I give the brain more stimulation. Or maybe it will be even sillier after further mental stimulation. Still, you can’t go wrong with cappuccino and dark chocolate.

And now another disguise!!!

Y’all need to check stilldamatt’s latest YouTube video… it honestly made me sad and I’m sure it will tug at your heartstrings as well. Excellent video stilldamatt

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I don’t think the dots are necessarily unconnectable, but we’re definitely left to work extremely hard to make the connections (if they really exist) ourselves. In this case, a little thought balloon w (does he know I’m Fata?) would go a long way.

Time to get out of Dodge .

Bootlegger tunnels?! Gweedo, have you been helping this woman?! :P

Well, that explains the elephant.

off on a side bet

I was looking at the “extras” on the dvd OF castle in the desert—1942—THE LAST 20 FOX CHARLIE CHAN FILM—AND THERE’S A HALF HOUR DOCUMENTARY“THE ERA OF CHAN”(2008)

ONE OF the commenters is Jim Doherty, who is believe is/was the technical consultant on the TRACY strip. Chan is also given credit for inspiring many future sleuths who put brains over brawn—includingJoe Jitsu!!

From the beginning it became obvious that Baxter was Fata……no secret there……

So THIS is the ending! Driving at 90 mph (in reverse, so as to leave confusing tire tracks) and removing her make-up. This scares a passing busload of burly teamsters off for a festive picnic in one of the many meadows of the city. Their high, girlish screams send her over the brink and into the recently imported Grand Canyon (well, if they can move London Bridge…).

Tracy, Tracy, Tracy. She clearly darted down one of the YOUNG bootleggers’ tunnels.

I’m wondering if the Trib’s editors ordered up this abrupt end to Baxter because they saw a woman in male drag as something political – or worse, thought some politicians would and make them a target for bad publicity. Too bad, I was looking forward to seeing how it played out.

Blew Baxter’s cover?

Baxter is Fata’s cover. What is Baxter’s cover that it got blown? Shouldn’t she have said, “…blew my cover?” And how do we know that her cover is blown? We haven’t seen any indication that Tracy realizes that Baxter was Fata in disguise, only that he thought there was something odd about Baxter. And we go from concern that Baxter needs medical help to chasing “him” down into the bootlegger tunnels with drawn weapons.

I don’t get the “blown cover.”

MOVIE QUOTE

“The brain. It’s gone! Sucked out like an egg between those two holes!”

Scientist—THE FIEND WITHOUT A FACE—1958

Baxter meets Doubleup and the Apparatus head coming the other way—-they’ve been lost down there for 18 months.

And isn’t it time some Teleguard cameras were installed in those tunnels?

Doesn’t it look like she’s about to pull off the Fata mask in the last frame? Methinks we’re about to see a big reveal that Fata is in fact… well, someone else, I’m guessing it’s someone else we know. But who will it be?

1-DT: I can see my breath! OFFICER: ME TOO! DT: I learned about why that happens back in High School. OFFICER: You used to smoke behind the gym too?

2-B00BS BAXTER: Rikki? What’s for dinner? …Again?!? …Well forget it – I’m coming in hot. We gotta run, go on the lam, shake a leg, beat it like Michael Jackson…

3-…Yeah, Tracy’s on to me. When I ran from him, he yelled ”BAXTER” Huh? Oh yeah – that IS my current persona! I got confused. I guess I should a stopped. I better glue my disguise back on… Yeah – put those Swanson Dinners back in the nuker. Kisses! Bye!

How exactly was “his” cover blown?

Now, let’s just hope this interesting arc will continue and not be suddenly stopped with a car crash.

Who was in the Baxter disguise when Bosco tried to solicit “him” to finish the job Fata botched. We thought it was Fata, but now it looks like it was Rikki, while Fata was someplace else.

I love the shadows in P1.

Fantastic mission impossible vibes again! Lovin’ it!

Whoa, didn’t see this one coming.