Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 07, 2014

Another DT villain who hangs with his sister?

Lena the Hyena?

Another familiar name.

They must have some naughty film footage of Vitamin that they’re going to use to blackmail him with.

Bare feet in a movie theatre, brave girl.

With this nasty extreme weather, PLEASE check up with your elderly family members and/or neighbors.

Ok, where is Staton and Curtis going with this? Are they taking a break from Meilies, Venus, Mrs.Flattop and the Apparatus?

Walking barefoot on a movie theater floor?

Euuuu!

Lena the Hyena, created by Al Capp, rendered by Basil Wolverton: tumblr_md4yqnxC8v1qemxfbo1_500

Sprocket needs some new designer jeans, along with some shoes. And while she’s at it, a little cosmetic surgery wouldn’t hurt, either.

And he LOVES popcorn… even blows smoke kernels…

oh JOY!! another villain for tracy that is a movie buff… i thought they just WROTE OFF abner kadaver and rikki?

maybe sprocket and silver are abner and rikki reincarnated, lol!

Why don’t you Drink some cold whiskey works for all that I know.

Aieee! Lena the Hyena! Classic!

“In 1946, Wolverton won a contest to depict “Lena the Hyena”, the world’s ugliest woman, a running gag in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner newspaper strip where Lena remained unseen beneath an editorial note stating her face had been covered to protect readers. Capp, responding to popular demand, announced a contest for artists to submit their interpretations. Among 500,000 entries, Wolverton’s was the winner;5 it appeared in a Li’l Abner daily and Life magazine. Wolverton’s fame briefly led to Life and Pageant printing his caricatures. The Lena portrait typified the unique “spaghetti and meatballs” style he employed regularly thereafter.3"- from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_the_Hyena#Powerhouse_Pepper_and_Lena_the_HyenaAlso appeared in WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT.

Sprocket looks exactly like my sister-in-law… makes me wonder what she’s been up to lately…

So Silver Nitrate has the look of old-school Hollywood (say 1940s) while his sister Sprocket is more the counter-culture late 1960s. And it looks like she’s already had one too many cosmetic surgeries, thank you very much!

Good morning all…

A bright sunny day in Southern Maryland and the temperature is up to 8 degrees already! Brrrr!

Beauty contest? Sprocket vs Rikki. My vote is for Rikki and her horse drawn death coach. Betcha she made her get away in the coach!

There was always stories in the old funny pages that left you hanging totally unresolved. We have people lost in space. Mysta writing sci-fi. Rikki’s on the lam. Hey its the comics. Mary Perkins had some great characters though. Does any body remember Johnny Q ? Or Maximus, the man with the plastic face ? ….

That Sprocket is a real dog..

Ah so! Wasn’t it your seventh grade history teacher the one who complained that your three years in the seventh grade were the most miserable years of his life? He remembers it well, in that it was the only time in his career that a student professed to know more history than the Smithsonian Trustees and Archives. I tend to agree with him.

Sprocket the ugly leftover hippie and her brother Silver the film preservationist and Lena Hyena? After the last two sets of apparently disposable weirdos, I begin to long for just an ordinary bank robber or murderer for Tracy to chase….

Night, it was not invented by Disney to make hyenas the villians. It was started by ancient storytellers from everywhere lions were found. Even though a lion will scavenge from kills made by hyenas.

Night-Gaunt49…..OK, it was a long time ago but its stuck in my mind. There are pictures of these characters spread around if you google Mary Perkins On Stage. They were characters that came and went during the course of the inter-related stories, all left unresolved and hanging…Joe’s rendering of Mary is very Disney, Snow White-like…very pretty…it should be interesting to see Dick Tracy meet Mary Perkins…I’m sure the DT team has a great story ahead…we’re in for the ride, I’m sure..