Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 26, 2022

well, I hope all you GarageMan fans are overjoyed to finally see the return of your person of interest… jeez, now we can begin to finally get this guy’s story over with and out of the way…

Those eyes look familiar … ✨

Just when everyone was so wrapped up in the thrilling backstage adventures, it’s Garage Dude! And some Suspicious Strawberry Jam!

Good morning™, all!

For all those who have been waiting for an update on “garage guy,” it’s finally here! I still think we won’t see him in a full story until sometime later. Maybe a bit more about the jam he’s in tomorrow. :)

Facepalm. Of course the characters with Harold Gray eyes must be connected.

Good morning™, garage jammers !

Does this connect with the current tale or are we running two stories simultaneously ?

Why is he going through old junk mail? Does anyone save junk mail? This is why the good Lord gave us garbage cans.

Little Warbucks is about to meet Granddaddy Warbucks!

It’s one day late, but here’s a one-year anniversary shout-out to Shelley! Thanx for 12 months of great artwork!

So we won’t see him for another year?

Maybe that is blood & not strawberry jam?

Hooray! He’s back!

How did he identify the type of jam? No, I don’t want to know!

Must be related to Billy—Jeepers Creepers look at them peepers!

Ok, which Dick Tracy eats strawberry jam?

Jam Face?

Jelly Belly?

Mrs. Preserves?

Mom Marmalade?

Same eyes !!! Maybe Robert’s grandfather!!!

It will be interesting to see how the “Strawberry Jam” becomes one of the vital clues to this whole mystery. But, on the other hand, maybe the “Strawberry Jam” is just another “Red Herring”?

Recycling bins preferable to garbage cans.

he wanted to preserve it

How do you identify years-old strawberry jam?

….hmm… yet another “non pupil” pair of eyes…….

That is Not strawberry jam….it’s blood

YOU MAY ALREADY BE A WINNER IN OUR PUBLISHING HOUSE GIVEAWAY! JUST CALL ME BEFORE JAN 1, 1933!

Uh…oops.

“JAM! JAM! It won’t wash off! I-is that a bread knife I see before me??”

“Bills, circulars, old issues of SHANDA…”

And now…out of the blue we have this guy with jam sticking notes?

Elsewhere?

Robert’s father? Steelface’s brother? Far out…man!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“I work for the Post Office,so you KNOW I’m not stable!!”

Sinbad—JINGLE ALL THE WAY—1996

Garage Guy has returned.What,no brass band?

When they tear down old office buildings,they sometimes find decades-old letters stuck in the mail chute.Back when buildings HAD mail chutes.

Meanwhile,RIkki Mortis is tired of waiting for Curtis to get around to her…..

1-GEEZER: My old Yale Report Cards!

2-Well, my one and only Yale Report Card. They kicked me out for calling the WHIFFENP00F singing group a bunch of WHIFFENP00FTERS.

3-But not before Cole Porter beat me bloody with my report card. So I transferred to South Carolina and got kicked out for referring to the football team as the _GameyCocks They beat me bloody too. And my next school – Oregon – didn’t see the humor in my calling their team the Buncha Fumb Ducks. I barely survived that beating.

Ahhhh – College! Good times…

About Harold Gray and the “no eyes” thing.

He tried drawing people with eyes for a few months around 1948,I believe—the “Jerry Gaws” story.He was miserable at it.

Everybody looked “mongoloid” and Gray went back to his regular style in a hurry.

Does that letter have one of those 4-cent Lincoln stamps on it? :)

And suddenly, elsewhere (how “elsewhere”? I assume we’re still in greater Tracyville?), Garage Man reappears, to the the unbridled joy of his many fans here!

What all this info about stashed ephemera and strawberry jam has to do with anything, however, is utterly not apparent.

Perhaps one clue is his empty eyes. Might he be a relative of Robert Parrish? And could such a relationship have a bearing on the plot?