Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 25, 2014

Good morning guys!

Morning all, Morning VistaBill!Of course the voice sounds familiar. He sounds just like Boris Karloff.

Good morning VistaBill, davidf42, Gweedo and other fans. Tracy smells a rat. How long will it take him to remember whose voice it it?

@Gweedo: I’m not the Starman in the song. When I joined as a Pro member, I chose Stargazer as my user name. (I’m an amateur astronomer). However that name was not available so I chose Starman. Y’all have a blessed day.

Good morning you all!Dick recognizes an auld acquaintanceWith which to start the cop and robber danceA janitor’s bodyAn hidden bootyAnd we’ll see how the plot advances!

Yeah Tracy, he sounds kinda like the Grinch.

Tracy’s sense of familiarity with the voice is correct, as we know; but how long will it take him to make the connection with his old nemesis, Gruesome? And when he does, then what? Can Christopher Cushing maintain his secret long enough to get offstage and make an escape?

Well, we were right yesterday when several of us said that Tracy would recognize the voice. I think he’ll remember whose voice it is fairly quickly.

It really like the fact that Joe Staton does long shots, medium shots and close-ups. Sydney may disagree, but I find that Joe doesn’t just do heads. I found that the strips in the couple of years before Joe started had excessive use of heard shots and very little depth in each frame. Joe’s frames have a lot of depth partly because there are both close and distant characters in a single frame quite often.

I think this is the first day that Jonathan has been spelled right. Perhaps persons who shall not be named noticed that we had commented several times before about it being spelled wrong.

Morning, Tracyville!Those of you who remember the play really well, is this the scene where they hide the body in window seat?

Sounds like it’s time again, for some Voice Analysis, on Diet’s Voice-O-Graph. Machine ?One might assume there’s a miniature ‘built-in’ one, on the Wrist Wizard, and Tracy will knock it off, quicker than 3 shakes of one of Locher’s - Yellow Rubber Ducky’s tails ?.

Little History here . . .

The Voice-O-Graph as Vic Wichert’s Dick Tracy Encyclopedia reported, came on stream in January 1965.

It was first used to identify Lita Flight’s voice . . .then later in 1968 the voice of Piggy Butcher . . . followed after in 1972 for Marvin Barley and the Blonde Saboteur . . . Finally, the voice of Tappy Weltz (Mar.1975) - some may remember as the obscene telephone caller.

It turned “voices” into understandable simple designs and displayed them as an oscilograph or printed them on paper. And could be used by law enforcement to exactly identify the speaker of any spoken wordAt the time Tracy noted, “The Voice on Crime gets a New Weapon”

I like it that Tracy isn’t the only one who recognizes a familiar voice. I’d say we all do! Makes reading even more entertaining, ’eh?

Aaaaaand the fun begins…

@Ashmael: good poem. Hopefully we will see more poetry from you in the future. Good comments all. The only thing missing is a poem from Pequod, who seems to be missing this morning. I hope all is well. Y’all have a blessed day.

I wonder if Tracy will remember the incident with Gruesome and the woman in the parking lot so weeks back? Y’all have a blessed day.

Deja Vu…

It’s always such a pleasure to read all the profound, in depth, informative, educational, insightful, inspiring, humorous, courageous, and professional comments posted here on a daily basis. .Oh, wait a minute,,,, this is Alley Oop, isn’t* it*?

I’m having fun with this story, as it is possible to enjoy them even when all logic is thrown out the door, lol (acting in a play while waiting to collect a debt? and he doesn’t disguise a hugely recognizable voice after going to all the trouble of having plastic surgery?) But, as I said, I don’t care…..love this story!!!

I recently taped the Masterpiece Mystery adaptation of the Hercule Poirot story “Curtain.”-—-You have to watch it. (I haven’t seen it, just read the book.) It’s one of Agatha Christie’s cleverest.BTW, the novel was written, I believe, during World War II, with the understanding it wouldn’t be published until after her death. She didn’t want anyone to come along and write additional books with him.When “Curtain” was published, the New York Times ran Poirot’s obituary as a tribute.

Joe’s art today is terrific – especially that first panel.The silhouettes of Jonathan and Einstein, the negative silhouettes of the aunts, and the delicate line work detailing the staircase in the shadows.(Kudos also to the GoComics colorist.)