Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 24, 2014

We have clever posters here!

Now all Dick has to do is add it to the stamp clue!

Yeah, Dick, we figured that out yesterday. hehe

Aren’t we all the clever bunch! ;-) Or Stagger had a sneak peek at today’s strip. LOL

Wow – we can actually see Dick’s pupils! Interesting, that his clock is almost the same time here. Meaning I should be in bed so —Good morning VistaBill and everyone! G’night!

Yeah, yeah Dick, we already figured that out. Try to keep up with the audience okay?

But the letter was written to Sparkle when she was a child. The code in the letter may indicate where Annie was not where she currently is. Wonder if Diet’s time machine might be causing temporal distortion? Perhaps Doctor Who is the next crossover aided by Doc Wonmug.

It seems that we are a clever bunch. Our collective membership in the Crimestoppers Club is safe. Dick should figure out the stamp clue when he sees what’s at 87W 45N. It’s kind of ironic when the rare time his eyes are wide open is bedtime, but that’s what happens when you suddenly discover something.

Got some good detectives on this board….maybe Tracy should hire some of you.

Wow, I guess I was a couple of days early on the wide eyes thing.

The old stamp is a clue?

87W X 45N puts you out in the middle of the lake!

Meanwhile, it appears that Tess and Johnny are pulling an all nighter. Good thing Tracy isn’t the jealous type.

The whole degrees can only give you accuracy to about 60 nautical miles in each direction, so you need some additional clue to get a fix. The Washington stamp seems like a good one, though there are an awful lot of Washingtons in the USA. It could indeed be the island, or it could be a street, building, school, park, …I’ll bet there is a bit more to the message.Good to see some real detection with clues and deductions.

I have my doubts about the stamp indicating Washington Island. As I said yesterday, Washington Island seems too big and too inhabited (permanent pop. ca. 660) to provide a good hiding place for a reluctant (and resourceful) hostage (and her faithful canine companion, Sandy?). I’d favor one of the much smaller and more sparsely inhabited islands nearby such as uninhabited Plum or mostly uninhabited Rock Island with just the lighthouse keepers and perhaps Wisconsin DNR staff at the old Thordarson Boathouse. The latter might make an excellent hideout, except for the inconvenient fact that it is open to the public….

Are we sure it’s 87W 45N? If it’s 87E 45N, then it’s in the Mongolian desert, in China!

And I still think there is more to this letter than latitude and longitude. The phrase “country records” sounds fishy to me. So does the phrase, “I wish it was 45 degrees up north.” Why did she say, “I wish?”

David, she says I wish because right now it isn’t the message was the lat and long, everything else is fluff.

NO $#!+ Sherlock!

Tracy can’t sleep, so he gets up to read the comments on this strip. That usually bores him and he posts the usual Z-z-z-z-‘s from under the bridge with an “LOL” signature. This time he sees the #1 post of the day by Stagger Lee and then his eyes pop open. And, he hasn’t a clue as to Tess’ whereabouts or care, either.

The clever way Annie managed to conceal the meaning of the numbers in her letter suggests that she fears her mail will be read. Annie is in a fix, yet Mr. Am believes she may no longer be with the Butcher. Still, he said she was near. The island makes sense in this light. Good work, Crimestoppers!.Welcome back, Ray. Wonderful work on the set design for Vieux Carre. I felt as though I was there in the run-down rooming house, transported in time to 1930s New Orleans. Lived in, yet not cluttered, the sense of place was palatable, while giving the cast the room they needed in the cramped quarters. Bravo!

Good morning DT and Annie fans. Great brainstorming fans.

Good detectives in this group.

No wonder why Tess doesnt sleep with him, he’s frickin neurotic! :)

It’s after midnight, and he’s not concerned about his wife being out with another man? Warning, Dick Tracy, warning!

The Time Machine is a Chekov’s Gun. It’s going to be used.

In real life, doesn’t the post mark show where a letter entered the postal system? Sunday’s strip showed us the stamp and the “Postage Due”, but it did not have a point of origin included.

Good Detective work..

Tracy spends more time in the penalty box than he does on the ice. So, it’s a natural that he gets bored easily!

I’ve been to Washington Island. It is a nice place. You can eat fish boil there (fish, potatoes and corn) and ride Icelandic horses. Sievers loom and model railroad benchwork factory is there, too. You can only get there by ferry and there are no one way tickets sold. The Island is cut off by weather in the winter. The beach has thousands of round rocks rather than sand; the rocks are totally smoothed by the waves and currents and was up on the shore. Too many people were taking them, so there is a fine. At the coordinates Annie gave there is an observation tower. Most of the Island is wooded, and the roads only make a crossroad in the center. This Island is off the Door County penninsula. A great place to go.

From Guatemala to possibly a boat in Lake Michigan near washington island, seems a bit far fetched. wouldn’t this be out of Tracy’s jurisdiction?

Annie must have slipped in in with other outgoing mail, and was sure to word everything so that, if it were found and read, it would seem just a fan letter from a kid.

We were never told it was signed by Annie. Just that Tracy and Junior recognized the writing.

From the Dick Tracy Fan Club. Genung’s was a 1930’s department store in New Jersey..

Okay, I just figured out the stamp. Washington. Washing ton. She’s being held in a laundromat…

Unless it’s latitude and longitude.

Good afternoon guys!

And Good Afternoon to you, VistaBill!

I think it’s a testament to Mike and Joe’s job on the strip that we’re spotting clues and debating about them. If this was done under Locher’s reign, I got a feeling it would be greeted with a collective “meh.” And now, so many Junior Crimestoppers are champing at the bit to help find Annie. Great job, Team Tracy!

All of this is fine and dandy but what I really need to know is does Richard always color coordinate his jammies with his clock? Fascinating!!! LOL!!!

Y’know what REALLY bothers me the most about today’s strip? Usually when Tracy has a revelation theres always a “YE GODS” associated with it.. apparently the “gods dont ye at night” lol :)

Ha, love this! Something tells me Herr Tracy now be making a trip to 87 degrees west and 45 north.

Note that all the islands of that group to the north of Door Peninsula make up the “town of Washington”; hence, even if Annie intended for the stamp to be a clue, it could still refer to any of that group of small islands!