Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 26, 2018

Good morning™, flight makers!

Tracy seems almost pleased by this news, but it’s not much of an accomplishment. We should finish wrapping things up tomorrow and after that I hope we can read a real Dick Tracy story with real Dick Tracy rogues. Mike promised lots of action for the summer, if I remember right.

Over so soon? :(

So …

Tracy got to bag the “B” villain, and ‘Drive The Hornet out of town,’ but that’s it?

Stick a fork in it! It’s done!

As in, Porky Pig and Th – th – th – That’s All Folks!

Dick Tracy didn’t make the Green Hornet do anything.

Good morning™, false victory takers !

Last panel: Dick has that Yuh, sure look. He knows Sam is just trying to put a smile on a dill pickle of an outcome.

Disappointing….

That bit of a grin on Tracy leaves me to wonder if he knows more than he’s letting on…even to Sam.

There he was, gone.

Yeah. The way you hit him in the fist with your gut really scared him off.

Hello, Lizz. Always a sight for sore eyes.

Sigh I miss the Dick Locher years!

LOL!

Just kidding! (said with my very own STG).

I’m actually not disappointed, just relieved that I won’t have to hear that diabolical, world renowned criminal mastermind Topper explain his impressive scheme ONE MORE TIME!

I haven’t seen a working teletype machine since the ‘80s. They were made more or less obsolete by fax machines, and now faxes are antique technology. I don’t doubt some are still in use here and there, but it’s kind of quaint to see one at a department with wrist wizards and air cars.

Well, since you brought it up, Sam:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HRynMdPpRI

As I suspected… the Hornet will be back.

Look how smug DT looks, when it was actually the Green Hornet who did all the heavy lifting.

I’ll be honest with you all, reading this arc from beginning to now, it had the feel of an episode from the television show.

“Where’d you get the thing about the ice bullet?” “Dick Tracy” “‘Dick Tracy’?!” “Yeah: he was a very underrated detective” – Harold ^Joe Turner, Three Days of the Condor (1975)

All of the recent stories have seemed more like episodes rather than fleshed out stories.

Yeah right, the Hornet ran rings around him.

Jeez, I hope Mr. Wick is right about the promise for “More action” this summer. It’ll sure be a welcome change

By the way, COSMO TOPPER is really a character from Movie and TV Series. Sophisticated but stuffy Cosmo Topper (Carroll) is the vice president of City Bank, married to sweet (but rather clueless) Henrietta (Lee Patrick). They live in a Los Angeles house they bought from the estate of a young couple, George and Marion Kerby (real life husband and wife Robert Sterling and Anne Jeffreys), who died after being swept away by an avalanche. A St. Bernard, Neil, who attempted to rescue them also died with them. Topper discovers his new home is haunted by the former occupants as well as Neil. Strangely, he is the only one able to see or hear them. Neil, the St. Bernard, loves martinis and a running gag is the invisible dog lapping up the drink.

The Kerbys try to bring some excitement and joy into the life of stodgy and conservative Topper. The ghosts cause strange (but humorous) events to happen, which an embarrassed Cosmo has to try to explain to others baffled—and even frightened—by them.

We now return to your originally scheduled Dick Tracy comic strip.

Night-Gaunt49 • about 1 hour ago

You repeat things so that new readers can be filled in and older readers who may have forgotten.

Yes, When time permits!

If you’re on a time budget you can’t spend all of it on one thing, there’ll be nothing left for anything else. “I Am Spartacus!”

Was The Green Hornet actually sighted in Central City, or was it The Black Beauty? We could see Britt Reid tomorrow saying goodbye to Tracy and heading back to his home turf.

And I thought I was Spartacus…

So remind me if I’m wrong: Tracy and Sam were knocked out cold. GH and Kato could have easily killed them, but instead called help for them on one of the wrist radios. (Of course, Dick and Sam don’t know that, except who else was there to make the call?) And yet, Tracy drove the Hornet right out of town. Conclusion: Sam had to have been been poking fun at Tracy, knowing that the Hornet and his associates had the upper hand on MCU all along.

We need Wendy Wichel! “This just in: Dick Tracy humiliated and helpless at hands of a villain for the third case in a row!”

Not a very satisfying ending for Tracy, who knows Sam and Lizz are just trying to soothe his feelings, after he was humiliated by the Green Hornet, who is now reportedly back on his own Central City turf. Old Squinty-eyes’ painful smirk in panel 3 makes it clear he knows he is being buttered up more than ultra-expensive cinema popcorn….

Maybe the (next) day will get better (for Tracy)….