Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 05, 2014

Ah, memories!

Good morning guys!

Of course it was for Brilliant, but the potential for danger from time travel was too high.

Is that a son who died? And Diet was trying to visit with him? Noble wish. What could go wrong?

If you read the Early appearances section of the Diet Smith page on the Dick Tracy Wikia site, there seems to be a good summary of what happened with Brilliant. It looks like these strip appeared in the late 1940s maybe.

Seems Diet Smith understands the perils of trying to go back in time and change events.

This new storyline, nice. Tarry’s comic reprints, Brilliant!

Unfortunately, I can’t read them. They’re just small blue boxes with question marks.

Diet seems at odds with himself. He begins Project Blue Image in hopes of getting back, or at least contacting, his deceased son, Brilliant, but then in a fit of scrupulosity shuts it down because it might succeed?

Yup, just big, blank spots for me on Terry’s panels. Bummer..I looked up Neil’s reference point, as well. I found this quote interesting:>she angrily went into Smith’s home and shot him twice in the bathtub and then shot herself in the head<.As we all know, bathtub wounds are almost as bad as the paper cuts that our moms warned us about.

“I was never up on Diet’s boy. Hope there’s some back story”======Well Gweedo for you and those wishing to know more on Inventor Brilliant -.here are some excerpts from the comment of Vic Wichert’s – Dick Tracy Encyclopedia.

The young, blind genius who invented the 2-WAY WRIST RADIO (1946Feb13), the ATOM LIGHT (1946Feb10), the RING CAMERA (1947Jul13) and the TELEGUARD (1948Sept16)<p"After BRILLIANTS death DIET SMITH revealed that BRILLIANT was his son., . Brilliant had Red Hair, wore dark glasses and carried a cane. He had been blinded in his experiments with the ATOM-LIGHT<pHe was also the son of IRMABRILIANT was later, for some time the Head of Diet’s Research Department

In 1948, he was shot and killed by BIG FROSTDIET’S strong attachment to BRILLIANT (his only child) has served as a strong motivation (for Diet) in many Dick Tracy storiese.g. ZY GHOTE ‘played on it’ - in the 1979 Max Collins story with MUMBLES .

The Go Comics colorist likely doesn’t know . . .

But BRILLIANT’S Hair was RED !

Morning, Tracyville!This may develop into a time travel story after all.

@Tarry Images are 404.

I even tried to download the images, but got a “Failed – server problem.”(I used to get that a lot when I played tennis…)

Well, as some suggested months ago, the “Blue Image” project was directed at reaching his son.A reason like that can overcome fear of the possible consequences any day.

Time Travel…Brilliant..

Having called the Brilliant connection yesterday (I’m sure I wasn’t the first), I’m wondering today if there isn’t a kid out there, a minor character in a old story line, who can be shoehorned into continuity as Brilliant’s secret son (or daughter), now grown up. Gould used that sort of plotline more than once, as I remember things.

Re Tarry’s images…

403. That’s an error.

Your client does not have permission to get URL /B8Jw-WGMiztj0H3XQjeFXq426PiS5Pm6Uc65mRSwo-e1Il4LDw7oSyho61KDBecChQHQmg=w1125-h446 from this server. (Client IP address: 67.141.175.42)

Forbidden That’s all we know.

*Problem with the ASSUMPTIONS like a Waitress getting LUNG CANCER from Second Hand Smoke, is that there is No Conclusive – proof, that IS the source. Maybe just convenient “Speculation”, from those that dislike the habit ? Or people with an Agenda ? Means to an end ! ?^-————Whoa. Paranoiac much? “People with an agenda?” (Boogey-boogey!)Boy, are you wrong.Doctors don’t leap into wild speculation or hysterics. (Those guys can be found elsewhere.)If you are one of those who believe in medicine and doctors, you’d know that different types of cancers have different causes.Also, doctors and researchers are very conservative about their findings.Like all scientists, they check and double check, and test and double test their findings until they are completely certain before going public.This is especially true for cancer researchers, where an incorrectly tested result can send research (and the search for a cure) spinning into a dead end.(BTW – car exhausts contain unburned hydrocarbons which would leave their own “fingerprint” in the lungs, compared to the chemicals in cigarette smoke.) I really don’t understand your problem with this. If your work has you inhaling certain fumes, it’s no surprise when you develop respiratory (or other) problems related to those fumes.My uncle was one of a large number of workers in a certain factory who died of cancers associated with the fumes from open chemical vats. Of course, the danger wasn’t known until the workers began to die.

Yep, 1946

And 1948All images courtesy of the I Love Comix Archive

It wasn’t in colour, but I subscribed for a couple of years to a newspaper called “Strips” and it’s companion “Storyline Strips.” I still have a pile of those. It got so I didn’t have time to read them all, so I eventually let my subscription expire. It was 32 pages of nothing but comics, twice a month.

I did a quick search to see if it’s still published and someone is trying to sell a back issue on Amazon for $175! If I could get that much for them, I have a bunch of them I’d be willing to part with!