Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 01, 2020

Happy Canada Day™, fellow readers!

Shaky is back to the routine! Sam seems happy, but Shaky is not impressed.

Sam looks very weird today, almost like he has a mask on.

Can anyone truthfully say that this current story was a masterpiece?

I want to understand the plan of Fortuna Dyer.

Happy Canada Day™, flat handed flatfoots !

Happy [your day here], to our Canuckian contingent.

Sam looks on with glee ! :-)

Shaky has calmed down, well he was stationary with rage….

Is it usual to take the fingerprints of someone who has given them before?

I see the shakes are back! He must have been in shock before!

What’s Edison to do now?

Book ’im Sammo

and now back to……….???

Can’t blame Sam for the wisecrack, after being struck in the face with a belt buckle.

Everything up to date at the Tracy City jail, they even have live scan fingerprinting, But way an (semi) up right scan plate? Would a a flat plate be easier/produce better results?

1-MATRON: Why, I haven’t seen hands this big since we booked that president…I think his name was…

SAM: DON’T SAY IT!!! The Chief made those kind of comments off limits, remember? But I gotta say, compared to the matron’s, you DO have some big mitts there, Jay. I guess that’s why your pickpocket career never took off! HA!

*2- You ever consider a career as the stoker on a steam engine train? You wouldn’t even need a shovel! I bet you never lost a slap fight in your life! Did you ever try to get a pickle spear out of a newly opened jar? You couldn’t do it with those wiener fingers, could you? I bet your nose is jammed with boogers because you can’t get one of those wieners in there, am I right?

MATRON: Ooh, I bet something else is really…

SAM: DON’T SAY IT!!! MATRON: Another Chief rule? SAM: No. It makes me feel bad. MATRON: Don’t feel bad, Sam. We love having someone around who can easily pick the first Vienna Sausage out of a newly opened can.

Police Humor.

But, what happened to the buckle?

sams inside left lapel is colored wrong… its RED

Good morning, fellow finger printers! I wonder if Shaky’s fingerprints will look like finger smudges since he shakes most of the time?

No

After much ado about…something or other, the long arms of the short Tracyville coppers bring him to face justice for whatever it was that he did. Or maybe not.

Tracy, always alert for opportunities to do his best Jack Webb and illuminate the public about good coppery, tells Liz to call the Daily Bugle and ask for that Bugle Boy, Peter Parker, for some snaps. Being a faithful girl lackey, Liz sashays away to do as she was commanded.

Elsewhere, the comely and delectable Edison is plying her new career as a fortune teller. “Give me all the money in your wallet and I’ll tell you about your financial future.” She’s finding it tough slogging.

And so it goes, by gar, by gar…

“What do you mean copper? My hands are the same age as the rest of me!”

I loved it!

The prints tech is holding up quite well amidst all this Sam-needling-Shaky Mk.2 ribaldry. She’s a pro. For that matter, so are Sam as cop and Shaky as perp….

I have a feeling that this is going to lead into Shaky meeting up with Broadway Bates in jail, and the next story…

The fingerprint tech actually looks a good deal like the female character “Burgess” on Chicago PD, which has been running on USA Network. She was a uniformed cop in 2014 – 15. Same sort of smile and eyes.

It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, just entertaining! This story is/was great!