Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 02, 2023

At the conclusion of this story, it will undoubtedly be crowned the most boring story in recent history!

A well deserved honor for sure!

Good morning™, all!

So, I guess it’s a kind of church song book of the sort that they had over 700 years ago. I think it’s like a song because they would have chanted the prayers in it.

Good morning™, vital information withholders !™

How dare Caxtons break continuity in a book series. How many actual books and ‘scripts’ go out of circulation thus robbing the whole of humanity of historical data ?  These robbers of historical legacy, the Caxtons and their accessory friends, are finally getting their due if a bit harshly. Maybe the current holder will finally have this material copied and published for earnest curious eyes, to gaze upon .. words from centuries ago …… at last. Heaven is finally coming into view. ;-p

well, if ANYTHING, the strip is maintaining it’s illustrious track record for lacklustre storylines for the last year or so…

but at least it’s given us all a chance to banter and retort with commentary and jocularity that’s more entertaining than what the daily installments have been providing…

even vengey has become more tolerable at this point… LOL…

That explains why the old woman died then. She hadn’t a prayer.

From Wikipedia:

William Caxton was an English merchant, diplomat and writer. He is thought to be the first person to introduce a printing press into England in 1476, and as a printer to be the first English retailer of printed books.

“Not been publicly displayed” might mean that it actually went missing some time ago.

I thought maybe the writer was going for a Codex Gigas-type of manuscript for this story, apparently not.

I think someone is going to use witchcraft on Dick Tracy !!!

The woman is well depicted today, looks like a neighbor I used to have!

Huh? The tea lady got her clock cleaned over a prayer book. I don’t know what the world in Tracy land is coming to.

Extremely interested in knowing how much the manuscript was insured for.

Methinks some disgruntled relative is behind this. Depending on how large the Caxton family is.

If the book is Flemish, why is the title in French?

Eh not tells me it has some sortsa secret map for some sortsa secret buried treasure somewhere.

TRACY (thinking) " Egad! So many spelling errors, and it’s done in CRAYON! I suspect a forgery!"

SAM (thinking): What LUCK! We’re out of toilet paper at the MCU!

LIBRARIAN (thining): HOO boy! Next time I’m calling in Goober and the Ghost Chasers or those meddling kids

Time for Dick to bring in Robert Langdon…….or Indiana Jones. Crossover big time!

So why did Ms. Caxton refer to it as a toy?

i’m reminded of a case for Albert Campion-a publishing house’s capitol was all based on them owning a valuable manuscript, until it turned out the book wasn’t what they had been told-this hasn’t been seen since it was bought long ago. it may have disappeared recently or during the nixon administration

Guess, Eric the writer is a stickler for details…details…details….

1-MS LAWYER: I can’t believe you were there for hours and never found the safe…

2-…It was even hidden behind a picture of a safe! You really stink at your job and therefore I’m…

3-… _suing the city for CHANSON DE LA VIERGE! That’s Latin for “Really Crappy Detective Work” BWAAAA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

DT: HOW’D YOU MISS THAT SAFE, SAM?!?! SAM: Huh? What? Was I even on-scene?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“I hear them lions ain’t got no teeth!”

“Maybe so, but they can sure gum you to death!”

Carnival barker—THE WAGONS ROLL AT NIGHT—1941

Circa 1290 meand that it woud have been manuscripts on either parchment or vellum. Which should make it easy to trace, as there can’t be a very many of those that come up for sale, and even fewer people that can afford to bid on one

People are complaining that we’re moving slow.On the other hand, the readers are coming up with scholarly references that they ordinarily wouldn’t have thought about until they were on their deathbeds.

It’s brains over brawn,and we haven’t had that in a while.

By the way,my little Golden Book of THE KITTEN WHO T HOUGHT HE WAS A MOUSE is missing

Caxton Lawyer Lady reveals that a manuscript is missing, a late 13th century “Book of Hours,” from about the time when Horae were beginning to become popular. The Wiki article gives the basics: https://tinyurl.Com/ysfycucp

If this one was a luxury manuscript, richly illustrated, and unseen by the public for a long time, it would be enormously expensive on the (always dodgy) art auction market, a difficult maze of obfuscation for law enforcement to penetrate. And, it should be needless to say (but isn’t), “Caxton estate” is not the provenance, just the current [until this theft] repository of the manuscript since Grandpa Caxton bought it at an English auction years ago. “Provenance unknown.”

If anyone is interested I wrote and recorded 2 songs for my grandchildren. Here are the links. I hope you enjoy. I’m playing all the instruments and doing the vocals. Feel free to say you hate them, I can take the abuse! LOL!

https://youtu.Be/oRVZtWx22eg?si=7KWHxJCbYYQ2_rP8

https://youtu.Be/EUhVqp13xYM?si=lkfQCumbHA0PMhzk