Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 13, 2020

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    Pequod  about 4 years ago

    Features hidden. Long black cape. Enveloped by his shroud

    Museum district hunting grounds. Light foggy mist and cloud.

    The self-anointed “Vampire” does stalk and strike and kill

    Blood lust? Fetish? Compulsion? A nasty taboo thrill?

    Beware the night and shadows. There’s evil in the dark

    A killer most unsavory does love to leave his mark.

    Daylight finds young crime stoppers. These girls bound to go far

    Under watchful guidance of reporter Brenda Starr.

    Let the sleuthing now begin. A gathering of clues

    Separate the wheat from chaff. Decide what one can use.

    A reporter’s beat is every street. Killer must be caught

    Danger lurks. Yet their good works bring journeys bold and fraught.

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    Brian  Premium Member about 4 years ago

    For anyone interested, one of the regulars has been posting links to old Brenda Starr strips in the comments for Gasoline Alley.

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    Neil Wick  about 4 years ago

    Good morning™, reporter wannabes!

    We finally have Brenda Starr, looking all sparkly. I guess summer has been extended in Tracy-land.

    I’m surprised to see that Honeymoon is joining Annie in the journalism pursuit, but it looks like we have a couple of “keeners” ready to do their investigative reporter thing on the “vampire” killing.

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    22ph  about 4 years ago

    And where’s Crystal? She’s not joining the fun?

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    Cheapskate0  about 4 years ago

    No! No! Please tell me it ain’t so!

    Just when we thought we made it through summer without an Annie crossover!

    What else is 2020 going to bring?

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 4 years ago

    Brenda Starr? Who has not appeared in Tracy land? Hmm… Beetle Bailey, Dilbert, Curtis, Blondie, Mary Worth…the list of cameos is endless. The headlines “Vampire Killing”….I guess Carl Kolchak from the Nightstalker series of 1974-75 will be making a walk on in this strip. For a minute, the crime was going to be a “Jack the Ripper” thing and “Scotland Yard” would show up for consulting purposes.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 4 years ago

    Good morning™, hands on journal students !

    Tho’ not a student herself what are the odds they pick up Crystal for a ‘ride along’ helper ?

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    GoComicsGo!  about 4 years ago

    OH NOOOOOOOOO?

    And it was going so good too.

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    coratelli  about 4 years ago

    Brenda Starr!!!!!

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    fredville  about 4 years ago

    This guy sort of reminds me of the Tacoma guy….

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    therese_callahan2002  about 4 years ago

    Does anyone here remember the old TV shows Journey To The Unknown and Ghost Story/Circle Of Fear?

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    iggyman  about 4 years ago

    Very interesting! I wonder if the girls will be involved in the capture of the “Vampire Killer”?

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    iggyman  about 4 years ago

    Brenda is looking mighty good these days!

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    galaxyg  about 4 years ago

    WOW! It’s great to see Brenda Starr again! Joe Staton did a wonderful job drawing her. It would be terrific if she had her own strip again. Brenda as a guest in Dick Tracy is a treat! More please!

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 4 years ago

    YEEES! THE DYNAMIC DUO IS HERE!!!!

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    crobinson019  about 4 years ago

    Does this mean Friday Foster is coming back too? Maybe Claire Voyant?

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    AngeloVentura  about 4 years ago

    Annie is now by adoption a character of the strip at least for Mike and Joe.

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    seanyj  about 4 years ago

    Oh boy! Look everybody, Annie’s back! Aren’t you excited?

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    seanyj  about 4 years ago

    And it wasnt a Mad Scientist but a Vampire. Blah Blah!

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago

    When I was kid, Brenda Starr was the first serial strip I read, entirely because of her looks.

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    oakie817  about 4 years ago

    cool beans

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    h.v.greenman  about 4 years ago

    What next? Are we going to learn that the silent killer from the past week is Abner Kadaver’s cousin Barney Collins, who came to Tracy Town to find out why cousin Abe missed the centennial family reunion?

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    jrankin1959  about 4 years ago

    Maybe Carl Kolchak will put in an appearance…

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    jrankin1959  about 4 years ago

    Or – is Abner Kadaver making a comeback?

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    Another Take  about 4 years ago

    Is Brenda married to _ _ _ _ _?

    Be the first to complete this ‘joke’ and win the admiration of all fellow readers for ETERNITY!!! *

    Contestants may not be related to me nor may they have omnipotent powers.
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    Don Bagert Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Hmm…Brenda’s ex Basil St. John wears a patch on his left eye…I hope it’s okay to say that Mike Curtis wears (wore?) one too…

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    Another Take  about 4 years ago

    RED: Hey kid. John McEnroe wants his 80’s look back. And you with the fleshy head horns – I think you’d have more luck with the boys if you hid those inside an early 60’s bouffant.

    ANNIE: Me and Blondie are investigating the Vampire killing. We’ve learned that the Vampire wanna-be is also an insult comic.

    BLONDIE: And your mean-joke greeting puts you AT THE TOP OF THE LIST!

    RED: Yeah, well I wasn’t joking, double uglies. Where’s that leave you?

    ANNIE: Sigh. ♪♪♫ Alone again… BLONDIE: …naturally ♪♪♫.

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    WGillete  about 4 years ago

    Let the complaining begin! Personally, I was looking forward to Annie & Honeymoon, even if the story’s going to be chopped to pieces to squeeze into the 8 week (or so) time frame. Fun seeing Brenda Starr, and – SURPRISE! The attack we saw was murder! (Maybe the only violence we’ll be allowed to see, like the bullet clipping Dethany’s coat in that story.)

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    Don Bagert Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Here’s a nice long article about Brenda Starr and how the strip battled the stereotypes of the day https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2020/06/30/brenda-starr/

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    Bradley Walker  about 4 years ago

    Double crossover with Annie and Brenda Starr. And is it indicative that I first read the First Responder’s name as “Jerry on the Job”?

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I was just thing about Brenda Starr cartoons!

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    Mlmontagne  about 4 years ago

    Oh, boy, a triple crossover!

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    buckman-j  about 4 years ago

    Let’s bring Katy Keene and Lois Lane in. Speaking of remembering, does anyone remember when this was a good cops and robbers strip with extraordinary villains? Naaah only fanboys with pics of Brenda on their walls now read this concoction. Interesting tidbit issue relative to that heroic first responder above. Seems there is evidence our “Dear Leader” and his minions misused some of the money set aside to assist those heroes who became ill. Sad

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    cherns Premium Member about 4 years ago

    I love the way that Brenda and Honeymoon have pupils in their eyes, and Annie doesn’t. This demonstrates that Annie has a congenital condition, not just a drawing abnormality. (On the other hand, in her own strip, nobody has pupils—maybe it’s a question of comics geography or something?

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    AngeloVentura  about 4 years ago

    This story intrigues me, it’s waaay more interesting than whinings of the complainers there!

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    Nimblejack  about 4 years ago

    Seriously…can’t we get just ONE STORY with a decent new villain and no crossovers? This “Scooby Doo Movies” approach to Tracy is getting tiresome. It’s definitely time for a new writer.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 4 years ago

    I like it so far. Brenda Starr is an excelent choice for reporter. A nice mix of characters and I don’t expect them to be “doconstructed”.

    If blood is drained from the woman they have every right to call it ‘vampire’.

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member about 4 years ago

    Good ole Brenda Starr!

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    Eric S   about 4 years ago

    Dick tracy can’t survive without crossovers.

    Also… Everyone else has well-defined pupils.. can Annie even see? Or is she reverse goth?

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    Cheapskate0  about 4 years ago

    To those complaining about us complainers (summarized by AngeloVentura), I think Nimblejack said it best:

    It’s been a long time now that we’ve been getting pretty much a steady diet of crossovers and Minute Mysteries. Isn’t it about time we got a straight story?

    This story started out strong. But the introduction of “those meddling kids” has instantly turned the last week’s fine intro to little more than a “teaser” such as we’d see in a Scooby Doo “mystery.”

    But, as artsyguy65 said, it could be worse: It could be Scrappy Doo!

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    seanyj  about 4 years ago

    The next special guest to the strip should be Bruce Wayne and his alter ego. Seriously, we already had the Green Hornet and Kato appear.

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    Sisyphos  about 4 years ago

    Brenda Starr and her two apprentice journalists, Annie and Honeymoon, will no doubt in some fashion serve as bait to lure “The Vampire” out into the Open (not literally open, but figuratively—some situation where he can be traced), and Tracy and team will then take over the heavy lifting of cornering and apprehending (or killing) our Mad Scientist/vampire. The question is one of balance: let Brenda and her kids serve their function, but then get them out of the way of the real cops….

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    Whizbang!!  about 4 years ago

    My experience with Dick Tracy extends back to the beginning, Of late, I tune in in only about every two or three months. This recent stuff is garbage. I suppose if you have nothing to compare to these modern strips are good. Perhaps the strip continues just to maintain the copyrights. The art is abysmal and the story lines are similar to Tracy in name only. Is this stuff the results of political correctness such that the writers are afraid to offend someone’s over developed sensibilities? Perhaps this civilization has reached the point that comic strips are a thing of the (distant) past. Reminds me of the Comics Code that very nearly killed comics books.

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