Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 07, 2022

His name is “Tonsils,” not “Dentures.” ✨

Some sort of scheme beyond a simple bump-off.

Tracy! Tracy! Tracy!

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He is going to schmooze his way right to Tonsils. Vitamin will tell Tonsils of this “Great” opportunity, present him a card or slip of paper with an address and the rest will be all she wrote. :-o

Get Dick Tracy on the trail of creepy Coffeehead, once and for all!

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I seems that Coffee has taken “Moka” to be Coffyhead’s last name. Maybe it really is. So, his cover story is that he’s hiring “Tonsils” for his nightclubs: I think we can safely say that he doesn’t actually represent any nightclubs.

I love the focus on the handshake in the second panel, looking upwards to Vitamin’s face. Shelley is taking pains to introduce different angles of view to the strip and I think that this is one of the more successful ones.

Vitamin seems to be the villain of the story here. Neither a friend to Tracy or Tonsils.

I need a double espresso to keep me awake during this snorer of a story!

We want to see more of Avenger 09’s incisively funny comments. I don’t agree with all of them, but most of the time they are really hilarious. Night.

Hard to pin Coffyhead down at the moment. He has drugs going on. He seems to have coffee sales going on (or he gets his cocaine in 50 lb. bags). So, I’d say let’s not rule out his having some connection to nightclubs (where one of his other products is popular). At the very least preparing a cover story for a fake nightclub connection shows more brains than several Tracy villains. But showing your very distinctive face/head to Vitamin before taking Tonsils for a ride is a very bad idea and will bring in Tracy.

“Here’s a dollar. Buy yourself something nice.”

(thinking) For some cement joggers!

Vitamin…sense…tingling! Must call Sam and that big fella in yellow!

Yeah! A perfect fit into Ye Olde Cement Overcoat……..

The trap is being set.

There are still nightclubs?

would he now. too bad Vitamin doesn’t know that the two have met before.

It seems a little elaborate for just solving a supply-chain issue.

“And the award for Treading Water The Longest Before Getting To The Point goes to… yeah. This one. No surprise there, folks.”

Hopefully these nightclubs are legit.

Between the Dot show and those nightclubs, Matt a.k.a. Tonsils will flame out quickly in Tracy land. It would behoove him to take his act on the road. I am sure Vitamin has factored this in if his “discovery” is going have longevity in show business.

1-COFFEE LATTE: Vitamin – this yere cowpoke goes by the handle of Moka.

2-COFFEE HEAD: I’m a huge fan, Mr. Vitamin.

VITAMIN: Well, I’ve seen bigger. There was one who was so big, he had to buy TWO seats in the theater…

3-COFFEE HEAD: Uhh, yeah. Not what I meant. Anyway, I owe your wife fifty bucks. Would you give it to her please?

VITAMIN: Oh ho! Those late night AmWay parties are really paying off!

COFFEE HEAD: AmWay? I dunno about that. This here’s for a three way.

VITAMIN: What? COFFEE: What?

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“I think you forgot your gloves,patrolman”.

Donald Mac Bride to Nat Pendleton—BUCK PRIVATES COME HOME—-1947

I hope t he theatre has security cameras that record Coffyhead’s visit.

Poor,naive Vitamin.He should study the mug books a bit more,considering some of the unusual faces he’s met over the years.

Tracy will get involved when he gets over his bias and realizes that Mattie isn’t Tonsils but just a young man trying to get on the straight and narrow. Tracy will try to help him.

ROARING20’s Chicago—1927

The death of anti-Capone gangster Vincent (THE SCHEMER) Drucci.Drucci picked up on suspicion of murder.He insists on getting into a fistfight with the cop guarding him in the back seat;even though his hands are cuffed in front of him.

The cop’s answer to this is to pull his gun and shoot Drucci point blank in the midsection.

At the booking spot;a crooked lawyer is already waitingwith a writ for Drucci’s release.That’s the kind of town Chicago was then.

The lawyer walks up to the car,congratulating Drucci on being a free man.He opens the door and his client’s dead body spills out at his feet.

The officer’s superior said the only action he planned to take was to have a medal struck in the officer’s honor.

“Schemer” Drucci was never known for his high intellect.

Artwork is excellent…not sure of the plot line…slow developing.

And Coffyhead’s nefarious scheme begins to take shape….

And at our nightclub, he’ll have his very own dressing-room,(maybe kinda damp, but the cement slippers we’ll supply will “take care of” that), even with Kopi Luwak!