Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 06, 2024

curses, foiled AGAIN…

Good morning™, everyone!

Good on Tracy to have the exits covered. Is there possibly another exit that Tracy might be unaware of?

the drag-net closes in on Fata/Baxter…

Potential victim of a cave-in. Gosh Baxter’s appearance was sure short-lived.

Except for the Apparatus, they are running out of villains in Tracy land.

Good morning™, Aroused Dicks !

Tracy can thank cleaner guy later. Right now that runaway “Bob” needs protectin’ from possible other bad guys. Will Mayor Armtwister give the kid a medal and key to the city ?

Foiled by the janitor!

If you can make an elephant disappear, than doing the same for yourself, should be pretty easy.

Never heard of Vitamin Flintheart though I’ve only been returning to Dick Tracy recently. Googled the name, a DT character, failed actor villain it says, from the mid40’s.

Feta way to go…..

Just looks at that broad back and shoulders. No way skinny female look like that even with lotsa padding without raising suspicions. One may gets to looks more fatter but no way such broad shoulders and chest without looking odd and awkward while movings around. Anyone could says she using padding.

Time to faces your fate-ah you eevil murderous criminal.

“Oh Snap!”

“I’d have gotten away with this if it wasn’t for that meddling janitor!”

“hey, you can’t go in there! That’s the ladies room!”

Why is the door ajar?!

Exit, stage right!

Uh, just a question, but Fata made it out of the theater in her magic act, no problem. And the police should have had the place surrounded since they knew Fata had tried to kill Johnny. Has “Baxter” forgotten how? Or is that the exit Baxter is headed for – which “he” knows the police aren’t aware of?

And, are we all clear from yesterday that the BOLO for Baxter is probably for medical treatment after the assault – since Tracy is clueless? (Of course it still scares Baxter ’cause the medical exam will expose her real identity.)

Actually, the police were at the theater days ago to arrest FM, so it would have been SOP to have the theater surrounded. Her escape was magic.

OTOH, Today Tracy was, to the best of our knowledge, tailing Bosco on a whim, “Maybe he’ll commit some crime.” (I wonder if his ESP was in play again. Does he often tail a suspect on a whim, waiting for them to commit a crime? Is the head of the MCU the person who should be spending his time on a surveillance assignment?)

So, why did Tracy have a full contingent of cops with him, enabling him to immediately surround the theater? (If the theater had not been surrounded Baxter could have easily run out of any exit – and a theater has a lot of exits, by order of the Fire Marshall. Or, why was Baxter so stupid “he” waited around a half hour or so for Tracy to call a full squad of cops to come down to the theater, take Bosco in, and start scouring the building in case Baxter was there and needing medical attention.)

If it’s a dangerous part of the theater, why is there a Ghost light, practically inviting one to safely enter? Talk about recycling a villain’s exit from the storyline, didn’t someone else fall through the floor a while back?

AH! BROOM MAN, ubiquitous, sinister observer of ll things wicked. Kind of like the Whistler or Phantom Stranger, he appears when least expected to brush aside the cobwebs, sweep way the confusion, and lay bare the wicked things in life. Jaywalking, Exiting through the ‘in’ doer. Dropping chewing gum on sidewalks…

Or is it Vitamin trying on the new costume for his next big fiasc…er…smash hit? (a s Mumford, the dyslexic Icelandic custodian-jester from Act MIV of KING LEAR IN THE TOOTSIE ROLL FACTORY (freely adapted from ROBINSON CRUSOE and WAR ND PEACE)?

Will we now find out how the elephant trick worked by Baxter doing it in reverse?

MOVIE QUOTE—

“He was the Head Munchkin in THE WIZARD OF OZ. I think he fell in love with Dorothy’s knees”

HOLLYWOOD AIR FORCE—1986

Okay, we might be doing the wonderful oldie where the villain’s actions led to their own doom.

Fata’s going into the “unsafe” construction areaSHE created when she made her “elephant escape”.So, is the elephant waiting for her,eager for revenge? Or is there a more normal thing like a deep pit?

Tracy is confused???

1-B00BS BAXTER: If I was in my Fats Morgana guise, I could make that guard disappear! CURSE MY DEVOTION TO METHOD ACTING!!!

2-… HA! Nobody will look for me amidst all the elephant dung!

3-JAN: BRAINS…BRAINS…BRAINS… DT: Leave it to cheapass Vitamin to get a ZOMBIE to clean this dump!

They’re still trying to figure a way to get the elephant out.

Okay,will our villain step in fresh paint and leave a very visible trail wherever she goes?

Will she get stuck in wet cement?

Or will Vitamin end up as a hostage?

……WHAT’S a guy/gal gotta go through to find a respectable place for #’s 1 and/or 2?……….

Why is the door to Vitamin’s dressing room off it’s hinges? And, why would it an an exit to the street?