Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 24, 2013

This is a good story!

On a side note, Avenger09 only made one comment, yesterday. And he never once said, “I hope that doesn’t offend you, it’s not my intention to do so…”. …I’m oddly offended by that…

…Not really.

Interesting.

Nice pun to go along with trying to take out Tracy by Jumbler….

I remember very well when comic books were only sold in drug stores off a spinning rack. The first comic book STORE was in the 1980’s around here.

Yes.

Good morning fellow DT fans…

Good morning back at you VistaBill.

they’re really stretching things to get Tracy here- nobody would write a sentence referring to a “jumble of old comics”.

I want to see Tracy reading that Dick Tracy comic.

Jumbler needs to make the Frank Gorshin laugh after saying that.

That looks more like a 4X4 post to me.

For a scrawny runt, Jumbler appears to be pretty strong. I hope yellow-fedora guy isn’t crushed by this unfriendliness….

Now that’s more like it, the perp seems cornered by Tracy , then makes his getaway by springing an impromptu deathtrap at the last moment; nicely Gouldian!

Gah! What a bad pun!Good morning, VB!

Good Morning VB et al. And that looks more like a Fourba four

the numbers are missing from J’s glasses

A Jumble of old comic books discovered in the wallSome are rare and valuable; they’d make quite a haulTerry and the Pirates alongside Scarlet StingPlus an olde Dick Tracy, that has a familiar ring.Jumbler said he’d see Tracy in the funny papersFaithful Crypto by his side to aid in all his capers.Lizz’s instincts were spot-on, she had a funny feelingComics in the drugstore wall would lead to dirty dealing.The proprietor’s excited, dollar signs in his eyesNot knowing the appraiser would make off with the prize.The Jumbler really knows how to lower the boomLet’s hope the falling ceiling does not mean Tracy’s doom.

So is that Dick Tracy comics one of the ones published by Gladstone that featured a cover drawn by Joe Staton?

That’s what I call using the old beam.

A recent AP news headline (seen on jumbojoke.com): “Rapper Ja Rule Leaves NY Prison In Gun Case”

Hardboiled crime at its finest! OK— not exactly 100 Bullets or Dennis Lehane. At this point I submit that current team’s 2-year “take” on Tracy is nostalgia & upping the more comic strip, more over-the-top elements. It’s not always the DT I enjoy but that’s what it is, for better or worse. I’ll continue to read & follow & chip in my five cents (probably a nickel’s more than it’s worth). I did like the detail yesterday about the discarded comics & wall slot.

I wonder if there are any Gray Ghost comics in that jumble?

Yeah folks, I’m offended that avenger09/SDM/MPH hasn’t apologized for not offending the folks that expected to be offended this fine morning. Must’ve slept late.

I just got “wind” of his joke! [Groan]

Nobody else noticed the SCARLET STING comic? how disappointing! lol!

BTW – Yesterday’s panels 2 & 3 were very Curt Swan era Superman

First off, I’d like to say that I think there has definitely been more good than bad in the strip since Staton and Curtis took over. However, it almost seems to me that Tracy has left his position at the police department in favor of becoming a security man for a comic book shop. It seems that a great many of the stories revolve around comic books, movies based on comic books, people who like to dress up like comic book heroes, cameos by characters or names associated with other strips, or (the one that really made me shudder) the crossover suggesting that Batman exists in Dick Tracy’s universe. I kind of long for the old days of Gould that dealt with murders, kidnapping, arson, extortion, etc. Now, in the case of the current story, I do understand that many vintage comics can fetch many thousands (or more) dollars, but I feel like we just keep treading over the same old ground. And I do enjoy the occasional nod to old strips from the golden age of newspaper comics, but sometimes I feel like we have gotten almost a constant stream of winks and nudges reminding us that, yes, we are reading a comic strip. Again, I apologize if this seemed to be a “troll- like” comment… believe me I didn’t intend it to be, as I still look forward to reading every day, and have generally enjoyed both the story direction and the art, but I did have to get that off my chest.

That profile of Lizz looks like Katy Sagal in Sons. Wonder if she can ride?

You ask if the body count wasn’t high enough. I guess I can’t answer that, because I don’t believe we really got an answer to how high the body count was. What I did miss in that story was a good account of police procedure. I wish we would have seen Tracy and crew finding clues at the site of the drained lake, or studying dental records of the skeletal remains. Instead we got what I felt was a bit of a rushed ending.

That’s actually based on a true story – a decade or two ago an old BEN FRANKLIN story was being remodeled and they found dozens and dozens of comics behind a wall. Good Reference,Mike!

A “Bass Wind Quartet” is a “Tuba Four”? No! The tuba is a brass instrument. Bass Wind instruments would be a Bass Saxophone, a Bass Clarinet, a Bassoon, etc

@Sweet Betty The 25 cent comics that came out a few times a year were the 80-page giants.

A Jumble of old comic books discovered in the wall

Some are rare and valuable; they’d make quite a haul

Terry and the Pirates alongside Scarlet Sting

Plus an olde Dick Tracy, that has a familiar ring.

Jumbler said he’d see Tracy in the funny papers

Faithful Crypto by his side to aid in all his capers.

Lizz’s instincts were spot-on, she had a funny feeling

Comics in the drugstore wall would lead to dirty dealing.

The proprietor’s excited, dollar signs in his eyes

Not knowing the appraiser would make off with the prize.

The Jumbler really knows how to lower the boom

Let’s hope the falling ceiling does not mean Tracy’s doom.