Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 14, 2012

Mornin’ all!

I like a bit of history.

the thick plottens!!

Good morning all…

Love the flashback!

Is this a “real” flashback, and if so, can anyone tell me when it originally appeared in the strip? TIA

Dick Tracy circa 1935 or so

Curiouser and curiouser.

Whoa! Serious time warpage here!Joe’s work is spot-on 1930s!Love the flashback!And mornin’ all!

2 of the figures do not look like Joe’s art. wonder what’s up wit dat. Not sayen it’s bad it just doesn’t seem his style. DT in P2 &WW in P3 I doono maybe it’s just me.

Oh …. sorry about that …. I understand now

A side by side comparison of panels 2 & 3 with the original strip(s) would be fun to see, if anyone has those.

Is it just me, or does Tracy look almost sinister in panel three? He just needs the handlebar mustache, or maybe a goatee.

I’m luving the art in the flashback!

Retroactive Continuity,Mike?

We pause for a flashback, catch our collective breath, and then forge ahead with wherever this case leads….

He could had copy the style of Gould’s 1932 or 1936 style.

Tracy has aged much better than Walt. In fact, Tracy has been looking great for well over a year. He is getting the treatment he deserves and it shows.

It’s no surprise that Walt Wallet has known most of the people in his town. He’s outlived most of them.

tracy’s showing his age.. walt is what, like in his 30’s in those pics? now he’s 100+… tracy must have been an INFANT back then lol! either that, or theres more stress at gasoline alley on a day to day basis than there is in tracyville :)

What a great artist Joe is! That’s just exactly what I was talking about yesterday – you can see a drawing of DT and know which decade the drawing came from – and now Joe drew a profile in 2012 that looks exactly like the DT from 1935. How does he do it? He must study each nuance of line. Wow.

I remember it well, we were both 28 years old then. Now I’m 51 and Walt is 111 years old.

Too bad Walt couldn’t have aged as well as Dick.

@battle of plattsburgh

Yeah, but then, the Katzenjammer Kids were about 8 yrs old for more than 100 years! Side note: Rudolf Dirks who created the Katzenjammer Kids decided to jump to another newspaper, he brought his creation with him, but, his original paper claimed that they owned the characters, not the artist; as copywrite laws for artistic creations were still in their infancy at the time, the Judge awarded the name Katzenjammer Kids to the first paper and let Dirks continue to draw the strip for the new paper, but, couldn’t use the NAME, so, he renamed his version the Captain & the Kids! Thus, from that time on , for several years, there were 2 identical comics with two different names! But, Dirk’s version was the REAL one….even though it had a new name.

Now we’re talkin’!! These flashbacks to the early days are great.

These days, Walt doesn’t just know everyone in the town, by this time, he’s fathered most of them :p

Good taste never goes out of style

red ties with black stripes are a dime a dozen…. ESPECIALLY back in 1935, LOL!

And all these years later, he’s STILL wearing the same tie!

Walt “knew most of the people in town”? In CHICAGO? Even in those days that boy must have really gotten around.

Making the tie red in every panel was the gocomics colorist’s choice. If you look closely, the stripes are a bit different in the flashback scene.

Several months back, it was Hotshot Charlie. Today it’s Walt Wallet. Hey, that’s the comics universe![Yet Walt’s wife Phyllis passed away a number of years ago.]

The flashback Tracy looks late ’30s or early ’40s at most.

I didn’t know they did cross overs with Gasoline Alley so long ago.

Well, you got a reply at least. And the development team has seen your suggestion. So that’s all good.

What an ingenious and original way to do a flashback. Dick’s all Goulded-up!

He’s over 100, but Gasoline Alley stopped the aging for a few years, so I believe he is just a little over 100, not 118. Have to check in over at GA to find his last birthday….

The aging seemed to stop for a while, but it’s been caught up since. Skeezix, who was born on February 9th, 1921, is officially 91 years old in continuity, and Walt is still officially a WW1 vet.

I can see that now, but thanks for the input NG49. seems like it just keeps getting better each day.

Oh, cut the geezer angle and tell us a story!

I like GA and these references to the past.

I want to clear up what appears to be a misconception resulting from a post by Mikeyj that even he says is just a coincidence in timing during the posting process.This “flashback” by the new team is totally the creation of Mike Curtis. There was no original strip written in the 30’s by Chester Gould that featured Walt Wallet. This is all new.I also wanted to point out that Tracy says he was out of town tracking an outlaw in panel two. So it is implied that this is taking place in Gasoline Alley, which is apparently the jurisdiction of the 26th precinct.

I have a gripe I want to air. Today’s insult to Texans and an earlier insult to Ohioans are in bad taste, among other things.In a public venue, such as this forum, we must all attempt to put aside our differences and get along. The “US” and “THEM” mentality has no place here.Arguments about political affiliation, religious beliefs, sexual preference, right to life, firearm control, etc. don’t belong here. If you do feel the need to talk about such controversial topics, keep it clean and unoffensive.Everyone has the right to an opinion, in this great country of ours that right is even protected, but nobody has the right to force their opinion on others, or to claim that their opinion is the only “correct” opinion.I often start my posts with the statement “In my opinion”, or “I believe”. I do this to inform others that the statements I am making are just that, my opinion or belief. Others are free to argue with them, in fact I often appreciate another viewpoint. Sometimes we will disagree, and that is OK.There are posters on this board who don’t get along. That is human nature. I admit that even I have lost my temper a time or two on this forum when the discussion involved something I was passionate about, or pressed one of my many buttons. I made a resolution to give everyone a fair say and to just sit back and watch for awhile. For the most part I feel things are better now, and with a bit of effort, I think they could be even better yet. I ask that everyone here make that effort.Let’s have the funnest forum on GoComics! I may even stop insulting the GoComics colorist. (grin)

I always thought Gasoline Alley was around Indianapolis (that’s a reference Indy car fans will get). If it was the end of February 1935 when Walt met with the police captain then he’s got a surprise waiting for him in his car. (Walt found a baby girl in his car in the February 28, 1935 strip; he and his wife adopted the child and named her Judy).

I’m glad this strip is using Walt since Gasoline Alley doesn’t use him any more. The only reason I still have GA on my list is the very, very rare appearance. Still stinging that he wasn’t there on Veteran’s day.

I don’t feel a meanness toward a person or persuasion; just that my tongue was poking vigorously through my cheek.Sounds painful. (grin)

I was beginning to think this was the lamest start to a new to a new storyline that Team Tracy has given us so far (though I did like Walt’s cameo), but I was quite mistaken. The curve here comes not from the story, but from the art. I love seeing Joe Staton’s interpretation of DT from the old days, and to me, it was worth waiting for. I’m learning not to underestimate the creative team, in any means. Don’t know where this story will go, but Team Tracy has me captivated.

And I really can’t acknowlege anyone’s “morning all” unless it comes from VistaBill. He kinda originated it :)

For anyone interested, Judy was left in Walt’s car on Feb 28, 1935.

“Gasoline Alley” originated as a Chicago strip, and has traditionally been regarded as being set somewhere in the Chicago suburbs. Originally, ”Gasoline Alley” was just a humorous name for a (presumably unnamed) alley running behind the houses of the four main characters, where they had their garages (you can still occasionally see these alleys in neighborhoods that haven’t much changed since the early days of automobiles, when houses were sometimes too close together to build a driveway, but had lots of room in back). They would get together there (sorta like the guys in “King of the Hill”) and talk about cars. Later, some of the characters worked at a garage named “Gasoline Alley”. Recently, it seems that the town itself (originally unnamed) has picked up the name.