Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 23, 2014

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    Stagger Lee  over 10 years ago

    Escanaba, Michigan is 45 degrees North latitude 87 degrees West longitude. Could be a clue?

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    cpalmeresq  over 10 years ago

    Better every day!

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    DaJellyBelly  over 10 years ago

    Escanaba, MI is about a 6 hour drive from Chicago/Naperville IL.

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    mrbribery  over 10 years ago

    when this written? Annie’s under duress and sneaking code past someone. the envelope has a “vintage” stamp, but isn’t Sparkle’s country career recent?

    also, Staton & Curtis draw the Annie characters much better than the guys at “Annie” do…

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    Blackthorne42  over 10 years ago

    I just re-checked the latitude and longitude listed in the letter (whew, a bit of alliteration there). 45 N by 87 W lands around Bailey’s Harbor, WI. Using the site findlatitudeandlongitude.com , it actually provided an address: 7949 Ridges Road, Baileys Harbor, WI. I wonder if there’s a philatelist in the vicinity….

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    Maximara  over 10 years ago

    I stumbled on an article about a 1790 letter in France finally getting to its destination…in 2010.

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    coldsooner  over 10 years ago

    Atta boy Tracy. Real detectives roll up their sleeves when it’s time to get to work!

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    starfighter441  over 10 years ago

    Annie is at Baileys Harbour Wisconsin, 87°West 45°North.

    Maybe…

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    starfighter441  over 10 years ago

    Or possible North.Western China if the 87° is east…

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    artheaded1  over 10 years ago

    I’m just glad Bonnie’ s profile looks more natural today. She looked a bit freakish yesterday!

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    davidf42  over 10 years ago

    The latitude and longitude interpretation is too simple an explanation. There is another interpretation to this coded message that Dick is trying to figure out.

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    Stagger Lee  over 10 years ago

    Escanaba, Michigan is at 45°44′43″N 87°3′52″W..Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin is at 45°3′47″N 87°7′29″W..Both are close so you decide. 8>)

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  over 10 years ago

    Good morning guys

    Annie wants a photo. Did she put an address on the letter?

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    tsull2121  over 10 years ago

    HOLY CRAP!! BONNIE BRAIDS… two days in a row!!!

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    Starman1948  over 10 years ago

    Good morning DT and Annie fans. You could be correct Stagger Lee.

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    Ikemeister  over 10 years ago

    “Will you send me an autographed picture?” So an address would be needed. No address of course but if encoded so as to bypass censors, surely they would see no point in allowing the message. Vintage stamp. Tie in to time machine?

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    willy007  over 10 years ago

    Something tells me Dad won’t be eating dinner tonight.

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    thunderbearr  over 10 years ago

    I ran the letter through a decryption program. I’m stunned.

    “Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine”

    Mind=Blown

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    She’s being held on Washington Island.That old stamp wasn’t just postage – it was a clue.

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    bassmanbob  over 10 years ago

    SYDNEY PHILLIPS said, about 23 hours ago

    @bassmanbob

    Speaking of you ‘well enjoyed’ stories from the past, I guess you know they don’t seem to ‘exist’ on this Board anymore ! ?

    Is there anyplace one can have the ENJOYMENT of reading them again ?

    .

    Hello Sydney. thank you for your interest in my Annie story. I placed it this morning in the Annie comments board if you or anyone else would like to read it it’s there. I am almost finished with the Annie/Tracy crossover I started in 2010 and will post it very soon.

    Peace.

    BB

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    mikeg52  over 10 years ago

    Perhaps Tracy can use Diet’s “Project Blue Image” to go back in time when Annie was at 45Nx87 and rescue her then, and bring her back to the present, still as a little girl …..

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    jimakin  over 10 years ago

    Just wait ’til Diet delivers Tracy his latest Wizard upgrade — the Two-Way Wrist Tachyonic Antitelephone!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone

    “Person-to-person for Miss Warbucks…”

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    abdullahbaba999  over 10 years ago

    I love all the unexpected twists and turns ahead..

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    Ray Toler  over 10 years ago

    Back from my Hawaiian vacation. Many INTERESTING developments.

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    jimakin  over 10 years ago

    The NY Times has covered this crossover adventure. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/annie-missing-no-worries-dick-tracy-is-on-the-case/

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    Ricky Bennett  over 10 years ago

    87 degrees north latitude, 45 degrees west longitude…oh my gosh! Annie was kidnapped by Santa Claus!…

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    Morrow Cummings  over 10 years ago

    If my GPS is working right, Annie is in the hands of SDM!

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    the_terrible  over 10 years ago

    Aahhhh, very clever!

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    The External Links section of the Wikipedia article I just cited has links to quite a few examples from these strips.

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    countoftowergrove  over 10 years ago

    Drink more Ovaltine and find out if it’s a clue!

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    Wow, you guys are good. Washington Island (here’s a map) seems like the perfect solution at 45.372123 degrees north and 86.897003 degrees west (rounds off to 45 and 87).

    So, to summarize:- Country [and Western?] records at 87 degrees almost melted- She wishes it was 45 degrees up North- Washington Island is suggested by the George Washington stamp

    It’s only a theory, but a good one. If this turns out to be true, I hope we’re not going to get a lot of complaints that the story is slow as Dick Tracy figures it out and explains it.

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    Neil Wick  over 10 years ago

    With any luck, this is Washington Island:

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    Diet Smith’s time travel experiment may figure into the story later, but right now, I think it’s thrown us all off. We see a 3 cent stamp and connect the two to assume the letter was sent through time.Maybe, maybe not…

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    MaryWorth Premium Member over 10 years ago

    If Annie wanted an autographed photo she should have sent in two Ovaltine labels.

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