Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 29, 2022

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“Powerful with the Force is he!”

Honeymoon’s Grandpa?

Good morning™, all!

Tracy doesn’t need lunar senses when he has security cameras all around his house. Team Tracy is still trying to keep us in suspense, however, as the identity of the mysterious figure is still hidden to us.

It’s Anakin Skywalker! He’s there to kill the younglins!

When did Tracy move to Australia? 6:45 is way too early for it to be dark in mid-June north of the equator.

Good morning™, Memory revisited ? !

Most likely the (ex) Moon gov. Something’s brewing since it is not like him to go to Tracy’s home for anything of less importance.

Landshark.

Maybe it’s B.O. Plenty. With Mr. Memory behind bars, B.O. & Gravel Gertie have some extra meals made for the neighbors to get rid of.

Cinnamon Knight changed his mind….

Exciting, waiting with anticipation!

Could it be? Chester Gould!

it’s the Exorcist!!

Whoever this guy is, he’s clearly not afraid of Tracy.

It’s Mayor Armstrong!

The thing that seemed weird, in a comic strip about a detective hosting dinner for a Moon Girl and a woman with lunar DNA spliced into her genome, the one thing that made me think, “That’s odd,” was … Mysta calling him “Tracy”. She’s a guest at his house, but she addresses him by his surname, with no honorific like “Mister”, which would be standard in American English?

It ‘s mr Memory’s accomplice from the last story-Paddington is turning himself in

It’s Luke Skywalker. He’s here to rescue you.

Presents? I-is it SANTA?!!!

No doubt some new fiend some to ring Tracy’s doorbell and run away, giggling wickedly! And he is…THE CHORTLER! Played this cycle by ace sewer technician Ed Norton!

Perhaps this short interlude with Mr. Memory was merely a diversion while Team Tracy cooked up a more complicated story…

“His presence is very strong!” Because he’s at the front door!

Dick better throw a bucket of cold water on Mysta.

Tracy and Mysta sees this lone figure. Do they both take him on or will a police unit be dispatched?

Considering what has happened to his residence in the past, the alarm/security system is a good investment.

1-MYSTA REE: Excuse me…DICK! Umm, why doesn’t that guy have clothes on?

DT: Ooops. This is a … uh… shoplifting suspect. We had to strip search him for stolen goods? Hey – what was that?

2-…Look! The cameras I put around my hot neighbors house is picking up something suspicious! MYSTA: Maybe you should check it out!

3-DT: Nah. He looks danger…uh, I mean harmless. I’m sure they’ll be fine. And if not, I’ll give their boat a good home. Close the door on your way out – I gotta finish checking out the weight lift… er…. shoplifter.

Well, at least he doesn’t seem to be holding a scythe.

The Mr. Memory story seems very much incomplete. We know he was robbing banks, but Dick didn’t. He knew Memory had the capability of doing it, but he had nothing proving culpability.

Moreover, we know Memory was robbing banks to finance some other crime which was not revealed even to us readers.

Most of all, Memory was going in for questioning, not necessarily an arrest – though his attempt at escape may have changed that.

Bottom line: If that’s all there is of the Memory story, that was a real „nothing-burger“.

Now for today: That’s about the most disinteresting depiction of Moon Maid ever made. While I had no idea what she was talking about, thanks to the rest of you, yes, it looks like that we’re in for that story about the further adventures of Moon Gov.

Let’s hope it doesn’t whimp out like the Memory story did.

Actor Will(SUGARFOOT)Hutchins—-age 95 and living on my Long Island.

In Elvis Presley film SPINOUT,played a cop named “Tracy Richards”,a purposeful joke that Will says many people probably didn’t get.

Full page ad in today’s NEW YORK DAILY NEWS from NYC Sanitation Department telling us how to prevent lithium battery fires.

Especially in scooters and electronic bikes.

How is Diet Smith doing with “alternative fuel research”?He’s heavily dependent on lithium.

Well,I hope we get an expanded role for The Moon Governor’s wife.She never even got a proper name,and anybody who puts up with “Old Grumpy” for as long as she has deserves a bigger part.

Also,can you imagine of they tried to pass a law on Earth that all the women had to wear THE IDENTICAL OUTFIT,like they did on the moon?

There’d be Earth politicians hanging from lamp-posts all overthe USA.

Wonderful colorful art work. And a spooky story begins!

MOVIE QUOTE—“The dog is all right.But we do not allow Indians”

Hotelkeeper to John Wayne—-BIG JAKE—1971

Luke?

Fuller Brush man???

Ok this time I have a nitpick… the cameras record that it’s 18:45:20 military time, which translates to 6:45pm .. this time of year it does NOT get dark until after 9pm!

It’s Father Merrin. He’s looking for the MacNeil house.

The resurrection of Posie Ermine

OFF TOPIC: Some comic book-related people on Facebook are having bogus friend requests sent out under their names. Dwight Decker was the first I ran into. Tonight I got one from Mike, who, so far as I know, is already on my list. If you get a request you’re uncertain of, chk you friends list first and then (if necessary) msg that person if they are already in your list.

Someone Strange This Way Comes!

Max von Sydow portrayed Fr. Lankester Merrin in The Exorcist, but Jason Miller, as Fr. Damien Karras was, to me personally, much better known, his having studied at a school I attended and being married to a daughter of Jackie Gleason, who had also attended there (Linda Gleason Miller).

Best bet: ex-Moon Governor (because of Mysta’s strong sensing of the visitor’s presence), but maybe it could be someone else….

I just had a last minute thought… Mysta says that she senses a strong presence but doesn’t even seem to consider that it might possibly BE a fellow Lunarian… supposedly she can only sense a fellow Lunarian… but she acts as if though it’s a foreign UNKNOWN presence… so maybe it might NOT be the Gov?…

“His presence is very strong”

He should change his brand of body wash.