Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 13, 2013

Guess Abner’s ready, then . . .

Hmmm, how will they work him into their nefarious plot?

Good morning everyone…

Abner Kadaver is ready to go!

Good morning DT fans!Kadaver looks decidedly ominous. What can he want with Uncle Ray? Stay tuned!

Guess what I’ve been doing? I’ve been reading old Moon Period Dick Tracy comic strips on Google Drive.

Minister!?

What denomination is Dick Tracy?

Dick Tracy is a Methodist, I guess

Uncle Ray looks suspiciously like Chester Gould

Watch out Abner, Uncle Ray was a Marine Raider in the Pacific. I like Rikki’s red irises.

The issue of being a minister was about performing weddings. Doesn’t necessarily follow that Dick, or any of them, are churchgoers. (Hope they are, though….good role models ;o)

Oh, no! Are they going to kidnap Uncle Ray? I wonder what’s going to happen to him. (“Ray tracing” Hmmm.)

Now that I think more about it, Uncle Ray will probably become bait to lure Dick into a trap, so they probably are planning to kidnap him. Have we ever heard the name Ray Tracy mentioned before. If we haven’t heard him mentioned by name, he could be in danger.

I had an Uncle Ray. He was a SeaBee, not a minister. But Tracy’s uncle seems to be Abner Kadaver’s target of choice. At least it isn’t Bonnie or any of the other kids. But I hope Tracy will be able to get him out of Kadaver’s clutches alive!

Chester Gould had a younger brother named Ray who assisted on the strip for many years.

Father Ray seems to go to the same tailor as Rabbi Marmelstein… ;-)

http://www.gocomics.com/dicktracy/2011/12/27

diabolical

Does Uncle Ray have a singing Guitar? (Sorry I kinda sorta remember the King Family)

Missing the creepy, drippy word balloon over Kadaver.

If Rikki has any “hacking skills”, she could have easily found this information about Tracy’s family long ago, as could any number of Tracy’s enemies. However, trotting the family out this way allows us to see them, and become concerned about them. I am wondering about Flintheart’s “intermission” some time ago. I thought the “Moon Maid story” ended rather abruptly without the trauma Flintheart hinted at. Now we see the reaper-faced one examining Tracy’s family. That promises all kinds of bad events.

Christmas Early reminds me of the woman in a Coke ad from 1954, or, the waitress in a diner of that vintage.

is this the same guy who married junior and sparkle? i didnt know he was tracy’s family

If I remember correctly, it was Matthew P. Hansel who filled that void of whom you are speaking. I don’t remember SDM posting. You might have just shot yourself in the foot, IMHO. Another way to say it is that you might have just blown your cover! But we love you anyway under whatever name you like!

SDM, according to GoComics, you opened your account on August 10, 2012. Methinks the emperor hath no clothes!

I knew it! Abner was watching to see which of Tracy’s family members he could kidnap for ransom which is Tracy’s life. Tracy should have known better to go on a show like this given all the enemies he has.

My theory: Rikki is scanning Uncle Ray’s features and will create a 3-D model for Putty Puss to study. PP will take the place of the Reverend Tracy to get near the family, possibly at a Thanksgiving dinner or a Christmas service. It would be his second chance to take out Tracy, to make up for his earlier failure.

One person thinks he is a Calvinst.

Christmas looks a lot like Jane Russell. Abner is still a dead ringer for Chaney’s Vampire from London after Midnight.

Ray Toler: You seem to have an affinity for Popeye characters, though your home page features Gasoline Alley doing a Dick Tracy crossover. Curious connections; wondering if you might wish to comment on them.

I like Rikki’s creepy hands today. Hands are tough to draw well, and Joe does a great job.

if oscar knew you in school, then theres a very good chance he IS abner! i figure knowing you personally would be enough to drive someone to commit murder ;)

“WOO HOO Go get ’em Abner, bring some excitement to this suddenly slow as molasses story!”-—————————————————————————-

Guess you " cut your teeth " on painful pacing back in those long to action - Locher (authored) tales like . . .

Braces (Oct. 2008) Who *’*threatened*’ -* for all of 7 weeks - to take revenge against the Genesis Corp. before making a first move

OR his . . .

Circus Story - (July to Nov. 2009) Same one with the ‘Pig on Wheels’, where DL’s Tracy, occupied a Circus Ring for all of 8 weeks - conducting an investigation to a murder. !.

Guess, those served to fine tune and enhance your ’ assessment ’ skills ?

never mind ray, i decided to google it lol. interestingly enough, she ties in to DICK TRACY as well!

Birth Name Mae Kwestel

Mini Biography

Her Orthodox Jewish family were totally adverse to her having an entertainment career. Her parents and grandparents forced her to leave the Theatre Guild school (New York) while still a teenager and had their wills drawn up accordingly so as to discourage this career choice.

Studied drama at Columbia University, and belonged to the American Theatre Wing.

When Mae was 17 and living in the South Bronx, she won a local contest to find the girl who most resembled Helen Kane, a popular singer known as the “Boop-Oop-A-Doop Queen”. She was promptly signed by an agent and began performing in the Vaudeville circuit. Billing herself as “Mae Questel – Personality Singer of Personality Songs,” she performed dead-on vocal imitations of Maurice Chevalier, Eddie Cantor, Fanny Brice, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and of course Helen Kane, among many others. Her mimic talent also provided duck, dog, chicken, owl, monkey, lion and baby sounds for radio shows.

Betty Boop creator Max Fleischer heard Mae doing her “boop-oop-a-doop” routine and hired her to do the character’s voice in 1931. She served as the voice on more than 150 Betty Boop animated shorts until the character was retired in 1939. Her recording of “On The Good Ship Lollipop” sold more than 2 million during the Depression.

Best known as the voice of “Betty Boop”, she was also the voice of not so less famous “Olive Oyl” in the Popeye’s cartoons, but also the toddler Swee’pea, and others. She did Popeye’s voice once, in the cartoon Shape Ahoy (1945), because Jack Mercer was serving in the military during World War II. Her versatility is probably better appreciated in the cartoon Never Kick a Woman (1936) in which she provides the quivery, nervous-Nellie voice of Olive Oyl, based on comedic actress Zasu Pitts, and the deep, assured, alluring voice of the blonde saleswoman, based on Mae West.

In 1968, the City of Indianapolis honored her with a “Mae Questel Day”. In 1979, she won the Troupers Award for outstanding contribution to entertainment.

Awww c’mon. Not Marrying Sam from Lil Abner? Shucks!

Mae Questel’s last appearance as Betty Boop was in "Who framed Roger Rabbit

As an occasional patron of the wonderful Raven Theatre, I can attest to the high caliber work of Mr. Toler. I had the pleasure of attending Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Trip to Bountiful, and the set design was most impressive. I’ve likly seen more of his work and simply been unaware. Hat’s off, sir. It’s a good thing Wimpy wasn’t at the lake during Tracy’s recent vacation, as the Detective would have never had a break from arduous duty at the grill.