Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 04, 2021

“Diet Smith sent a drone back so I could view my own birth!”

Happy 90th Birthday Tracy

80 years….

Don’t they have a retirement age in this P.D.?

In the earliest strips Tracy looked like a weenie! (He didn’t yet have the square jaw…)

Good morning™, party boys !

I hope I look half as good when I’m Dick’s age. Lizz looks like a boy in drag, with those “exuberant” eyelashes.

90 YEARS!

Does anyone else find it strange that Lizz and Sam don’t know Tracy’s birthday?

Happy Birthday!

Many Happy Returns of the Day!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DICK TRACY!

(raises a glass) Here’s to another 90 years! :)

Happy Birthday, Dick!

Happy Birthday Dick, and you sure do not look your age!

Good morning™, everyone, and a happy birthday to Dick Tracy!

The history in the third panel is a little misleading, although it’s essentially what I believed to be true until about a year ago. We are led to believe that Gould sent samples to Capt. Patterson at the Tribune, but it’s a little more complicated than that, because the Captain didn’t work at the Tribune at the time. In fact, he didn’t even work in Chicago, aside from occasional visits. He didn’t approve it on behalf of the Tribune, either. The Trib didn’t start carrying it until months after it began.

Cousins Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, became the editors and publishers of the Chicago Tribune in 1914. After learning about the tabloid format from a London publisher, the Captain went to New York in 1919 to found the Daily News tabloid. McCormick and Patterson were both listed as editors and publishers of both papers until 1925/26 when Patterson officially gave up his position at the Tribune and McCormick gave up his titles at the Daily News.

McCormick-Patterson had founded Liberty magazine in 1924, but it constantly lost money (reportedly $12 million) until they finally sold in 1931 it to magazine publisher Bernarr Macfadden, partly in exchange for Macfadden’s newspaper, The Detroit Mirror. During the following 16 months, the paper lost $2 million and it was suddenly closed down without warning in August 1932. Employees of the Mirror got one week’s severance pay. The Detroit Free Press promptly started carrying Dick Tracy that month.

Eventually, I will write more of this, because I find it rather fascinating.

Very impressive! Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Dick, cut back on the coffee!

Happy birthday Tracy! May we have many, many more years of this fine strip.

Happy Birthday Dick Tracy and Congratulations on your longevity

Happy Birthday.

Oct 4 1777 George Washington tried to retake Philadelphia in a surprise dawn attack that resulted in the battle of Germantown. Despite initial success Washington’s troops got bogged down and by 10 AM Washington was pulling back first to settle at Whitpain PA that was still too close to the British forces and would eventually end in december as he led the colonial army into a place called Valley Forge.

well, congrats Tracy! Enjoy your party, you’ve more than earned it.

I believe the first villian Tracy had to deal with was Muggs Skeater.

Here’s to another ninety years of “flesh wounds” and holey hats.

Happy 90th!

I like that Dick’s birthday is 10-4.

HIPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should have had Tess and the rest of the Tracy clan bring in a cake.

Ninety years. A pretty darned good run!

Happy Birthday!

It’s 90

Lookin’ pretty good for a fella of 90 years.

Yup it is School today Happy Birthday

Wow! Dick Tracy shares a stellar 90th anniversary with The Shadow! Walter B. Gibson and Chester Gould should be toasting themselves up there!

Happy birthday dick tracy!

By the way…Happy Birthday to Dick Tracy! Special thanks to the Curtis-Staton team for always kicking you know what!

Some fans would like to see further Tracy crossovers featuring The Shadow and Doc Savage. Will this happen? I am not certain…but if anyone could pull it off and do it well, it would be Curtis and Staton.

Happy Birthday, Tracy! Shame on Sam and Lizz for not knowing!

And I’ve been following you for almost 70 of those years. Congratulations, Tracy!

Looks good for 90!

The first 90 years was great! I can’t wait to see what the next 90 bring us!

Gweedo’s the only one here who remembers Tracy’s debut. Moonshine and Raccoon road kill must add many years to your life!

An order will be placed at a bakery for a cake. After this appearance, everybody will adjourn to B.O. Plenty’s. Big fun was had by all.

I wonder if MCU personnel have a 401-K plan. Tracy’s is probably considerable.

Sam left out that part where a song says, “may the bluebird of happiness fly up your nose”.

I wonder how many newspapers still carry the strip. None in my area run it.

A few years ago I emailed Tribune Content Agency asking this and they said they don’t divulge that sort of information.

Happy Birthday! You don’t look a day over chiseled.

Hard to believe Sam didn’t know.

Happy 90th Birthday! It’s been a long and winding road. I hope that we are all around for the 100th birthday celebration.

“WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, all you hip cats and cool swingers out there in that Terrific Town of Tracyville! I’m your HOWWWWWWWLingly hip BMBG deejay, JPuzzle The Whiz, here, and on this very special of days, there is just one tune I gotta spin for a very special lawman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOHAzjxLhk

Happy 90th Anniversary.Been following his adventures since 1972.

No word from Pinkie The Stabber;who apparently still holds a grudge.

No knock on Staton,but Lizz looks like she got up on the wrong side of the cell block this morning.

Many more, (hopefully better than what we’re getting lately. Neil seems to really need a job

well happy birthday tracy

Wow – happy birthday to you, Dick Tracy!

1-SAM: Watch this Doll. Tracy’s so old he’s forgotten how to shake hands…

2-…Put ‘er there pal!

DT: Oh, hi…Sam? Ummm, how’s this ritual go, start with the left…no…the right…let’s see…that’ll have to do. Carry on, Sam.

Fans of this comic will be glad to know that Tracy has begun a regimen of those memory pills they advertise on TV that are made of squid guts. Expect to see changes soon. *

Happy Birthday! I have read Tracy for 70 years now!

so Dick Tracy himself is about 120

Happy 90th., Dick Tracy!

If you’re looking to slip Jerry Lawlor back into the strip,remember that one of the bestremembered villains,T.V. Wiggles;was a pro wrestler.

90 years! And Dick (only his wife calls him that) is still able-bodied and on active duty.

You forgot your bosses’ birthday?

Today’s Ginger Meggs comic strip has a side note tribute to Dick Tracy.

Happy Birthday, Dick Tracy. Not surprising he’s a Libra — thoughtful & selfless.

Congratulations, Tracy, old man! Many more years of fighting crime left in you, I hope!

Take note that police code for “OK” is “10~4!!” Wonder if that was the case in 1931??

So that explains all the odd twist popping up lately.