Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 02, 2022

The voice balloon is pointing the wrong way in the first panel.

Good morning™, all!

Mr. Clark looks a little taken aback that the incident he’s been trying to keep a secret is already known to police, but I think he needs the help, so he won’t question it further.

Good morning™, Bergenites !

Someone set a negative balloon overlay for this panel. I like how Dick doesn’t dwell on the apparent wrong doing of delayed reporting but is focused on the task of finding the thief and how they were able to do this large scale theft.

Today’s strip would be much more exciting if the banker looked like Mr. Monopoly.

Dick looks good with his ponytail! LOL!

Who wears a 3 piece suit these days?

How did Clark’s nose get that smuge???

Naturally this bank official is going to be bent out of shape. The publicity would put a padlock on the bank’s doors. Then there would be anxious depositors and nervous employees to deal with.

Mr. Clark…now would be a good time for you to pop a Rolaids in your mouth. The fact that a non-bank official like Tracy knows about the cyber heist…upset stomach time.

The balLoon on the first panel is…LOL!

Ed Asner?

Why is Tracy talking to himself in the first panel?

The top embezzler !!! Showing off his pompous ego !!!

The Police know everything….Big Brother is watching.

Dick Tracy should have hunted Jeffrey Levitt and his fat wife Karol who started the Saving and Loan scandal in Maryland where they stole over 15 million from their own bank !!!

In Panel 1, it looks as though Tracy is the one talking.

“Oh, and I’m here to arrest you for failure to report this to the FDIC as required by law and mentioned in yesterday’s strip. Turn around and let me slap the cuffs on.”

First panel Clark speaking balloon points at Tracy!! Or maybe Clark is practicing voice~throwing skills??

It looks like Tracy is talking to himself in P1.

Um…is the other guy a ventriloquist??? See panel one!

tom selleck Blue Bloods

The best and only way to rob a bank is in a 3 piece suit! Steal a little and you go to prison. Steal big and they make you king!

1-DT: Well, don’t you look swell…

2-…But you really smell.

3-CLARK: I don’t find that in the least bit funny, Tracy!

DT: Who’s joking? Have you been smoking Pell Smell cigarettes? Eating at Taco Smell? Smell-O gelatin for dessert?

CLARK: What are you doing here Tracy? What exactly do you want???

DT: Oh, nothing. Just killing time.

MIKE, MIKE, MIKE! Have your cast of characters do a run-though of their lines the night before! Tract shouldn’t have to prompt them on their own dialog! I just hope this doesn’t happen before a spirited gun battle where he has to carry on a running string of cross comments for everyone else! (ducking and running)

TRACY (as hard-nosed Thug # 1): Taste my hot whizzing DEATH, Tracy!

TRACY: HA! You missed by a mile and, Liverwurst Lips, and nailed Sam’s hat (for the thousandth time)!

TRACY (as Thug # 1): Well, I can do better, copper! I’m gonna’ spin his cute little bow time for him, an’ then YOU’RE next! OH, and the NAME is Pastrami Puss, by the way. That HURT!

TRACY as Sam): NOOO! Who’ll look over all the cool things I ‘borrowed’ from crime scenes and the Evidence Lockers?

TRACY: You just TRY that, Anne Oakley!

TRACY (as Sam): Mother of God. Is this the end of Rico…er Sam??

And like that there. SO painful!

The dialog balloon in the first panel is pointed the wrong way. It indicates Tracy is doing the talking and calling Clark “Detective Tracy.”

MOVIE QUOTE—

“And now,gentlemen,we’ve got to start looking for a new treasurer”.

“But you appointed one last week!”

“That’s the one I’m looking for”.

Groucho Marx—DuCK SOUP—1933

Tracy is providing his own dialog?

“Detective Tracy speaks in the third person”

Banker looking suitably pompous.

Not much of a vocabulary beyond “Harrummph”.

You wonder if Mr.Memory’s shack is where Felton’s Barber Shop USED to be.Aside from the greenhouse it was the only building close to Sunny Dell.

since when does tracy talk to himself

In the first panel, the word balloon is pointing towards Tracy, even though it is the bank president who should be saying that.

Seems to be an echo pertaining to that first panel

Tracy is asking HIMSELF what I do for you?

got an oops in first panel, unless Mr. Clark is ventriloquist

“I found out the usual way. A guy named Cinnamon Knight met me on a rooftop and passed me an envelop. How else?”

You tell him, Chief Detective! This bank president (vel sim.) is entirely too smug and self-satisfied, considering that he is in deep doo-doo for non-compliance with FDIC regulations and will be in trouble as well with the bank’s insurers. Mr. Clark is about to get taken down a few notches! Will he become cooperative with Tracy in hopes of saving his wrinkly skin?…

“Dude, I just told you, I’m Dick Tracy. That’s how I know.”

Either the banker is a ventriloquist or Tracy is flubbing his lines!