Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 10, 2019

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    Pequod  almost 6 years ago

    Frank O. King made panels sing

    Skeezix and Walt the heart

    Ruminative

    Cumulative

    Nineteen Nineteen the start.

    There upon Walt’s own doorstep

    Basket with baby boy

    All in real time

    Rhythm

    Rhyme

    King’s work a timeless joy.

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    avenger09  almost 6 years ago

    How strange it seems to celebrate

    An anniversary

    Five months late

    The gesture’s nice

    They meant quite well

    I hate to be the one to tell

    Perhaps the boys should hire me

    To proof the strip I’ll come real cheap

    I’ll help them stop the mistakes galore

    Before the strip becomes a big bore.

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    HarryCK  almost 6 years ago

    Ya got it all wrong, see !  This shows how far, really far, ahead the Sundays are done. This one needed to be done back in January.

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    jrankin1959  almost 6 years ago

    So Mr. Scancarelli is a bluegrass fiddler, eh? I don’t know why I’m not surprised…

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    HarryCK  almost 6 years ago

    Good morning™, aged mechanics !

    Best ever Hall panel ever done here !  Happy late birthday, motorheads !

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    Cheapskate0  almost 6 years ago

    One-off or new crossover on the horizon?

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    AnyFace  almost 6 years ago

    Timing does seem a little odd, though the sentiment is appreciated. ✨❤️✨

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    AnyFace  almost 6 years ago

    There was a lengthy period last year when ‘Gasoline Alley’ was in reruns, having shifted abruptly into such mid-story: New strips returned in time to celebrate the anniversary.

    No explanation was ever given for this, whether it was due to illness or negotiations we the readers cannot say. ✨
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    Kim Metzger Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    I visited Tomah, Wisconsin 12 years ago. They have a store front museum which has a lot about Frank King and Gasoline Alley in it. I also visited the local cemetery where King’s tombstone has a wonderful relief of Alley’s characters on the back.

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    therese_callahan2002  almost 6 years ago

    Luckily, Walt never became a schoolteacher or sportswriter.

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    Knightman Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Oh heck “Happy Anniversary!!!” “Gasoline Alley!!!”

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    trimguy  almost 6 years ago

    I recognized Walt right away and thought he was going to be part of a DT/GA like the Spirit was.

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    Kip W  almost 6 years ago

    Scancarelli did a very good week or so of Tracy tribute, back before Mike & Joe took over here (I believe). The art was razor-sharp, and a nice break from the porridge that was being spooned out at the time. September–October 2006, it seems to have been. 75th anniversary of DT, according to the original art image I found at Google:

    http://photos.auctionanything.com/x/9184/160025b.jpg

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    Robert Ingersoll Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Yes, Walt looks that old. The strip established he was 115 back in April 2015, so next month he’ll be 118. (He should be older, but in the 70s an 80s, while Dick Moores was doing the strip, the characters stopped aging. They resumed their day-for-day aging when Jim Scancarelli took over the feature in 1986.

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    Jan C  almost 6 years ago

    This is a very nice tribute to GA’s 100 years. I read both strips, and enjoy both tremendously. (Although today’s GA didn’t make a whole lot of sense.)

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    JD_Rhoades  almost 6 years ago

    Goin’ home, runnin’ homeDown to gasoline alley where I started fromGoin’ home, and I’m runnin’ homeDown to gasoline alley where I was born…

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    buckman-j  almost 6 years ago

    Would someone direct me to the Sunday Dick Tracy strip with Mr. Sampson appearing?

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    Don Bagert Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    So is this the first time that Gasoline Alley has been definitively identified as part of Tracyville?

    Also, Walt seems insulted that the interviewer said that he (Walt) was one of the original mechanics, when in fact he was! LOL

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    Sneaker  almost 6 years ago

    I liked the part of Jim being a bluegrass fiddler!!

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    Sisyphos  almost 6 years ago

    Nice, worthy tribute to Gasoline Alley, though its abrupt appearance here just as the Joe Sampson/serial killer story is warming up is a bit puzzling, at least to me….

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    Darryl Heine  almost 6 years ago

    If Jim Scarnelli retires from Gasoline Alley, can Staton and Curits take over the strip?

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    jdb5169  almost 6 years ago

    Hear we go again,another comic strip in another comic strip!

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    Karl Hiller  almost 6 years ago

    With all due respect to the people who enjoy the old-timey comic strip nostalgia - and I used to read Gasoline Alley back in the 70s myself- DT lately is feeling like a new Star Wars movie that’s 50% walk-ons by characters from Krull and The Last Starfighter and visits from R2-D2’s long-lost cousins Twiki and V.I.N.CENT.

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    Kim Metzger Premium Member almost 6 years ago

    Walt’s wife, Phyllis, died in 2004.

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