Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 16, 2024

offs, what bit of corny-ness is THIS?!?

He definitely belongs in “prism”.

“Wow, what an ugly mug!”

Good morning™, everyone!

“Reunion”? I’ve never heard of “Mr. Mirror” either. Have any of you? I certainly haven’t read every Dick Tracy story.

That explains the mirror Tracy said was needed for the unusual selfie photo to happen.

Hmmm. Could this be the long missing “The Blank”? (The original, not the Madonnafied movie version?

Good morning™, Scaredy Cops !

Don’t think I’ve ever seen Dick’s face looking that way. I hope he’s got his Depends™ on. Too bad Tracy isn’t wearing a small pistol on his wrist.

I wonder if it’s someone Tracy knew in the past who has been disfigured and took on a new persona? Best theory I’ve got until I have time to reflect.

You’re in trouble now Tracy, if you hurt him you’ll have 7 years bad luck!

He’s the head of the Vanity gang.

Mirror, mirror in the sewer, who, who are you!!

Ok, this started out (literally) with a bang, then a whirlwind of supporting characters, two (assumed) murders, a foot pursuit, and then FINALLY the intro/big reveal of the villain… and BOYOBOY is he most DEFINITELY a “tracy caliber criminal”. … the look, the sobriquet…and we have only 5 DAYS LEFT TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT!!! I don’t want to jinx anything, but I think by my comments so far can tell you what I think about this story.

Um, apparently I’m under a misapprehension. My thought was that in a Minute Mystery we are given a crime, quickly introduced to suspects, and then have to deduce from the visual or verbal clues who committed the crime.

If this confused new individual is the criminal he wasn’t introduced until a week and a half in to a two week MM. (And why is he introducing himself to Tracy. He should have shot Tracy in the back as he climbed down the ladder.) If he’s not the criminal why are we introducing him now?

IMHO we aren’t dealing with a Minute Mystery, we’ve got a two-week filler. (A filler is anything that simply takes up an allotted amount of time / space.) Nothing wrong with that. But it would have been nice to know that ahead of time before I accused Sam of being the killer.

“Mr. Mirror? Oh my GOD—there’s broccoli in my teeth!”

The Mirror? Just waits till Tracy breaks your glass jaw ya crook.

Reflections on a bad minit mystery.

An MM starring an MM! (Suddenly I have a mysterious craving for colorful chocolate candies….)

Cool . I like this .

Mark my words, Tracy will put his fist through that mirror before the week is through!

TRACY: EGAD! I"m the PERP!!!

Forgetting Mr. Mirror? This won’t reflect well on you, Tracy.

A baddie clearly in a GLASS by himself.

Boys, boys, boys…let me guess, some of you criticize your wife when she burns “your” toast.

OK… Bummer. I did not get it right, because another level was added.

But Tracy! That’s not the kind of face you’d be likely to forget! Also, I like how in P1, spraddle legged Dick is just begging to be shot in the … well, you know.

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Get him a uniform, a desk,and a drink!”

Admiral pointing to John Wayne—-THE WINGS OF EAGLES—1957

♪♪ I’m starting with the man who’s a mirror,

I’m asking him to change his ways…. ♪♪

And I’m calling him “Mr. How-can-he-See-What-He’s Doing?”

Tracy doesn’t look too happy.

Botched the job

So he shot the wrong twin the first time.

The papers call me Mr. Mirror

Don’t believe your own press.

All in all, though, this MM is good for being what it is.

Well, a guy with a mirror face would definitely explain why the first dead twin had that photo on his phone.