Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 19, 2014

Good morning fellow DT and Annie fans!

hmmmm I wonder just what Diet is remaking in there. -— And WHOOT I got first comment today.

“The Philadelphia Experiment” allegedly an experiment done during the Second World War. Where a ship and it’s crew disappeared and when it reappeared the crew had both physical and psychological problems!

So who’s got more Money, Diet or Warbucks?

That was “The Final Countdown.”

The Philadelphia Experiment?!?!?! No wonder it looked like things were going hideously wrong.

Now would be a good time for Diet to ask Warbucks how his Lazarus project worked out.

Maybe they’ll open a time rift to Atlantis.

Time travel?? Whoa nellie. This has to be related to that mysterious letter sent to Sparkle.

A little search-engine work on the Philadelphia Experiment shows that this alleged (i.e., completely made-up, wacko, UFO-class) Unified Field Theory application to make the destroyer-escort U.S.S. Eldridge disappear and/or teleport from the Philadelphia Naval Yard in 1943 is a popular and oft-retold and embellished hoax.But if anyone could make it real, it would be Diet Smith and his team! Carry on, lads!

And might the name “Project Blue Image” be a nod to the U.S. Air Forces “Project Blue Book” that studied UFO data from 1952 to 1969? Or maybe the rock group Blues Image who’s big hit was Ride Captain Ride in 1970? (Tight song!)

The Philadelphia Experiment!? What can go wrong?

Here’s the link to the Wikipedia article about the Philidelphia Experiment.

Research and Development at Diet Smith Industries is robust. If it is “Top Secret” it must be audacious. The moon equipment may be “all in the past” at Smith’s, but I suspect the Lunarians left Moon Valley in their own Space Coupes. Time will tell.

if i had a clue as to what “The Philadelphia Experiment” was… MAYBE this would interest me. As it is, I’m going back to my bowl of Cookie Crips cereal, Nudge me when something interesting happens ok?

All I can say is, this latest experiment by Dietrich may well be a way to tie in Moon Maid – and perhaps get back to the space era!.And, maybe, if we’re going to go back in time, perhaps we could pick up the real Mysta Tracy while we’re at it…

I remember when Brenda Starr “lost” and later found her daughter Starr Twinkle living with a family of bounty hunters in a South American jungle and Winnie Winkle her husband Bill in a jungle too. Maybe Annie is in a jungle someplace.

Good morning DT and Annie fans. They are about to enter The Twilight Zone!

Here’s my theory: when Sparkle goes into labour, Honeymoon will go off with Dick and Oliver and she will find Annie and Sandy on a deserted island with Robinson Crusoe and Friday.

O.K., the possibilities are endless. No comment — let’s just see how this works out.

This will probably end up involving Mr Am’s ‘Alley’. Who am I kidding. We all know we’ll see Alley Oop when this thing works. :D

Might they go back in time and prevent the death of Raven Sherman?

I thought the Philadelphia Experiment was Allen Iverson.

If I remember correctly, Mr. Am had a friend named Valentin the Roamer, who had a time machine. With it, Annie visited Atlantis.

I really hope the story doesn’t go into time travel. Save that for a science-fiction strip; maybe a spin-off with Mysta?

This is so cool…you never know around this DT universe.

You said: “However “The Phantom” does have flash backs too.”-—————-True, especially if you mean the historical adventures of previous Phantoms, such as the recently finished story set in the 17th century.

Loved that shadow on Diet’s face in the middle panel!

It is very subtle, but the “body language” of Oliver Warbucks in panel 2 is very reminiscent of the way Harold Gray would draw him in the original LOA – usually while in a pensive, thoughtful mood. Gray had his characters thinking out loud while pacing around quite frequently – that’s what it reminds me of today.

@tsull2121: As it is, I’m going back to my bowl of Cookie Crips cereal…

You have breakfast with a street gang? LOL

A successful day of street fighting starts with a good breakfast. LOL

So, Diet Smith has created a sort of “time travel machine” could that be used in the search for Annie? That’s a very science fiction-y idea for this strip but it’s an interesting idea.

Can Alley Oop be far behind?

Finally getting off the silly Moon Maid stuff?? I hope so!Doug