Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 15, 2022

Good morning™, all!

The explanation for Vitamin’s concern: “Mr. Moka” (a/k/a Coffyhead) cannot be the new owner of the long-vacant Ajax Café, because it hasn’t been sold. I wonder who’s on this “grapevine” the Vitamin speaks of, but I suppose it’s sufficient to say that he has reason to believe that something very “suss” is going on, as the kids are saying today. Of course, Vitamin is not going to check out the suspicious situation himself. He knows from experience how dangerous that can be.

Nice recreation of the scene from long ago.

Understandable that Vitamin would feel a little “Shaky” … ✨

Tracy continuing to make his presence felt over on “Gasoline Alley.” ✨

“Bad memories indeed, Tracy. That hat was never the same afterwards!”

Good morning™, frightening revelations !

Next panel  Dick racing out the door with Sam being notified enroute, for a rendezvous at the “club”.

All I’m staying is that there seems to ba a lot of issues with bad memories going around.

Vitamin looks especially creepy in panel two!

Curtis just moved his plot along 2 weeks, after today. Kudos to him. And Shelley Pleger’s artwork is incredibly stylized. She’s amazing…

Evidently Tracy only holds a grudge on certain things….sounds like he’s giving Vitamin a break.

For a guy who has been encountering crooks of various kinds all his life (or at least the last seventy years) Vitamin was extremely trusting. And apparently the weeks that passed in the storyline occurred between April 4 & 5 while Javaface had his business cards for MOKA printed. Slight printing delay. (Nothing will make you seem legit like a nice business card.)

I can still wonder why Vitamin didn’t think to check the story a little sooner.

Typical movie hero—“I’d go myself but…So could YOU do it? I mean there’s no concrete evidence anything is gonna happen, bu I have a premonition…”

Flintheart doesn’t have a premonition. The lie in itself qualifies as enough concern for authorities to investigate.

Plus, once printed material is manufactured, falsely claiming assorted things, the crimes of fraud and false advertising come into play.

And now we’ll meet the New Owner, Mr. U. R. Dedd!

DEDD (with an oily smile)" Ah, you’re here at last! Ignore the three men in overalls with picks and shovels. It’s a ‘theme’ band, and their bass and guitars were loaded onto another train. They’ll just mime the test number. In the meantime, you look tired. Why not lie down for a quick nap in this completely innocent pit?

Or…could it be someone we’ve already SEEN? Hmmmm?

He can’t reach Tonsils…did it dawn on him that Tonsils turned his cell phone off or placed it on vibrate. Anyway, he cannot get to you right now, Vitamin, he is too busy charming a certain television personality.

Now he and Tracy are in the same boat as far as “bad memories” are concerned. Maybe they both will get therapy after this story closes.

Bad menories with new ones to come?

OH BOY! Another breakfast bowl full of Nuttin Honey!

Neil Wick, JPuzzlewhiz, and a host of others.

Re: The ?comments=visible glitch.

Still not working.

I’ve heard a lot about tweaking (or just plain turning off) ad blockers, but I do not have any ad blockers installed.

Same problems on Firefox and Safari.

1-DT: Slow down, Vitamin. Take a breath and tell me again.

2-VITAMIN: SOMEONE IS FLOODING THE ECONOMY WITH REALISTIC COUNTERFEIT MONEY! Well, realistic to the extent that the size is about right and it’s green and that it easily fooled me…

3-…I’M SO UPSET! I smell toast and oh look! There’s my wife dancing with Shaky. And owwwww… THUMP!

DT: VITAMIN?!? ARE YOU OK? Oh well. Must’ve had something else to do. HEY SAM! ANY CREAM FILLS LEFT???

MOVIE QUOTE

“Excuse me.But is there any other part of this coat that you would like to dip into the raspberry jelly?”

Jerome Cowan to Arthur Lake—-BLONDIE’S BIG MOMENT1947

Looking at that brochure Vitamin is holding, I’m wondering if Coffyhead has used this scam before, or if he went to the trouble of having it made just to get revenge on Tonsils for bailing out on him.

Let Junior in on the finish.He’s owed Coffyhead one for a long time.

Something occurring to me—-the original Mr.Crime could just as well have left the original Tonsils alone and he’dStiLL be the big boss.

But with criminals,even the “important ones”,it’s all about having power over the “little people”.

So Vitamin is the latest to join this Deja Vu parade.

Hey Coffeehead, watch out for Tracy! But make sure you nail Tonsils!

….Yup! The Ajax Cafe….where the “hits” just keep on coming……..

Hey,you remembered the broken hand!!

Alas,I chose to take the next week off for company vacation.You shall not be hearing from me until Monday-April 25th.

And I’m leaving just when things are heating up(the danger,not the coffee).

So,I shall miss a tightly bound Tonsils 2 and Dot being lowered slowly by a construction crane into the giant vat of boiling hot espresso.

“Do you expect me to talk?”

“Why,no.Mr.Tonsils,I expect to stay awake!”

In the original Tonsils story,Tracy’s worst ordeal of all was having to share his vacation with B.O.Plenty and Gravel Gertie.

The Old Thespian is phoning in his new-found fears to Detective Tracy. And, thus, the game’s afoot! Since Flintheart can’t contact Matt “Tonsils” McCullar, surely Tracy and Sam will be heading to 8th and College as fast as they can. There, they will cross paths with a cross Coffyhead, and action will perk up. Hot lead may be flying!

Who lives? Who dies? —That’s up to the Fates (and Mike Curtis)….