Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 22, 2024

a Tracyville Tour…

I believe the building in panel one depicts a real-life building here in Chicago…

"Mar"chitects are not always efficient.

Good morning™,all!

The “monument to journalism” is definitely inspired by the Tribune Tower.

Holy Tamole!

And I thought yesterday’s strip could never be topped for thrills and spills!

Mr. Excitement himself, Eric, “Hey Abbott” Costello has given us jet fuel to start us off!

There’s no way other than down after this astonishing beginning!!!

These last two days have killed any momentum to whatever story this will turn out to be. But the visuals would have been great in a Sunday strip.

it’s been YEARS since I’ve been there, but is panel two a depiction of Union Station in Chicago?…

Tomorrow it’ll be a bakery, butcher and a delicatessen.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz …….

This is the city. There a a million stories in the city. The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

There are 8 million stories in Tracy City, this will be one of them!

Well, helps that the general outlines of the buildings are straight lines, but all those windows and smaller columns look like a lot of work for Mr Ettinger!

I see a lot of people don’t understand what story background is.

Maybe this story is a cross-over with Godzilla, who’s about to show up & trash Tracy’s hometown.

…to comic strips…

Day 2: Still no plot holes. A good start. I’m pumped. No, seriously. Not exactly pumped, but I’ve got no problem with a slow build – especially if it leads into a good story. (Of course I have no idea yet if it’s going to be a good storyline, but nothing has dashed my hopes yet.)

A Bank!

“Suddenly, a shot rings out! A door slams! A maid screams! And on the horizon, Mojo JoJo appears, piloting another of his giant robots! Heavens! What is a city to do?”

So… the writer is out of ideas…

Please help us !

Hey Vengey ! Work your magic on this one .

Huh? We’re strolling through Chicago and suddenly finding ourselves in New York?!? Long, strange trip, indeed.

Last one financial most likely district Chicago.

Is that the Daily Planet (sans planet) in panel 1?

Some of you guys drive me crazy. I know that all you want is old school Tracy, but this is some cool stuff. Dramatic. Building tension. We’re building up to something here and the art is great.

it is chicago and the first pic the building is greenish and topped with gold so it looked like a giant champagne bottle

Ah still building up the stories eh.

The monument to journalism looks like it came from Metropolis (the movie). Hmmm . . . journalism . . . Metropolis . . .

Those monuments to Journalism aren’t what they used to be. The Sun-Times (Daily News) building now houses a hotel from a chain whose namesake provides great emotion from critics and supporters. The Tribune Tower now contains “luxurious residences” (wikipedia.And, the Tribune’s printing plant site, is the future home to a Chicago downtown casino.

Eric is reproducing a Hitchcockian opening with each day’s drawing getting more narrow in scope – city, large buildings, small buildings, floors of buildings, an individual apartment, an individual room, a piece of furniture in the room, a mouse hole in the room, a mouse nest in the… TOO FAR…BACK IT UP! BEEP BEEP BEEP!

MOVIE QUOTE

“I got a date with a girl.In fact, I got a date with two girls”

“But you and I have a date with destiny!”

“Let Chic date Destiny, Please?”

Lou COstello&Lon Chaney Jr.—ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN—1948

This reminds me of the beginning of a “Batman ’66” episode.

1- DT: Stay on the line, Sam. And yell. I’ll find you! … Nope. Not here…

2-: …Or here…

3-: HOURS LATER …Or here… Hello Sam? How about you hail a cab and tell them to take you to Police Headquarters? SAM: Uh…I left my wallet next to my gun at home…

Most interesting building in Chicago is the one housing Harry Caray’s restaurant. You can see it from just about any point in the city

A few years ago they tore down The Lexington Hotel, where Al Capone occupied most of the expensive rooms.City Historical society refused to landmark it

No animals were harmed during the production of this comic.

You know, for this they could have given Matthew an extra week.

NYC has beautiful buildings and great architecture. But they seem to have decided they’d rather build giant, ugly, glass needles instead.

Today and yesterday’s strips are beginning to look like the prologue of an episode of “Dragnet” where Jack Webb as Friday, talks about Los Angeles.