Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for April 20, 2024

The pace of this story is bound to lead to a infamous Sweatbox ending. Oh joy!

Hey Chucky, why’s Croptop in the, “Taking a dump” position??? LOL!

well, I got better things to do than try to analyze Croppie analyzing a kid’s book… LOL…

So… Croptop brought an old copy of a children’s book … which belonged to Scardol. But how did she know it was the exact copy that used to belong to Scardol? Was it passed down through various owners over the time with the knowledge it belonged to Scardol? & if it was wouldn’t previous owners know the story behind it & go after the money themselves? & why does an “angel mouse” need a microphone? & why did Scardol leave his loot with Dan Campbell?

Good morning™, Clue Sifters !

Let’s get us some loot !  Mop Top does have a squatty stance. Pretty boy sure is smart.

Good morning™, everyone!

Moving right along, next stop the City Library, I guess. The New York Public Library famously has the two lions on either side of the main entrance. (If you haven’t been there, you might remember it from Ghostbusters). The Dick Tracy strip dailies started out exclusively in the New York Daily News and I think that Tracy’s city has always had some resemblances to New York.

We saw Scardol on Thursday with a pen in his hand, writing in a book, so it looks like he wrote his clues into the printed picture book and that’s what we are seeing today.

Greetings, Library Visitors!

The lions could stand for lions, or maybe lines but I doubt that. Lines would be way too vague. A library or a zoo are rather public places to hide money but Scardol may have believed in the “hide it in plain sight” philosophy. This almost seems too easy to me. Did he intend for someone else to find the money, thus leaving the clues in the book? If he did, who did he really intend to find the money?

Sounds like the New York Public Library…

I detect an error in Shelley’s drawing of Galen. He has round sunglasses, not square ones. Still, I’ll have to ask her if it was fun drawing the character.

The treasure hunt begins. A literal paper trail……

If she can master all the clues, robbing banks for her will be a distant memory.

Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it!

It could be a pun on “lines.” So they should look between the lines of the book.

Her face! My 8-day clock just stopped!

Nice perspective artwork again.

Me wants more adventures of Ol Gweedo the book selling biker!

I could be a takeoff on the “Lion Sleep Tonight” song by the Tokens!

How did what started out as a seemingly straightforward cops & bank robbers case suddenly morph into this merry mousecapade?

“And the Real Treasure is the comments that pile up on the way”

I was thinking NYC library entrance.

“So, we gotta’ get into th’ lion cage at the zoo. Only be real quiet. Or, if you can’t make a sound like (tasty) diversion.”

If Phoebe Spengler’s been around, DON’T stand between the lions…

the lion may lie down with the lamb, but the lamb isn’t going to get much sleep- woody allen

So this guy hid his loot, then wrote a book with clues to find it?

They’re going to the New York Public Library?

How much you wanna bet that when Croptop gets to the location in the first clue, she finds there are others in search of the buried loot and “offs” them?

1-CROPPIE: RIIIIIPPPPPP!!! Ahhh. I feel better. CLEANCUT: So that thing comic has easy to figure clues to the whereabouts of a fortune in stolen bank money?

2-CROPPIE: Yes. That’s what O.G. Biker told me. CLEANCUT: Original Ganster? CROPPIE: No. Old Grampa.

3-*CLEANCUT: Could I easily figure out the clues? CROPPIE: Hell, even Bowling League could! CLEANCUT: Interesting. I’m going to the hardware store for some plastic bags and a bone saw. Need anything? CROPPIE: Yeah. A shovel in case the loot is buried.

CLEANCUT: Oh yeah! I’ll need that too! CROPPIE: Cool! We work great together. CLEANCUT: Sure! They won’t even be able to put you back together. HA! CROPPIE: And bleach! I don’t want any of my DNA on your remains. HA!

They are pretty cavalier for being wanted bank robbers.

I’m really enjoying the artwork. It’s nice and dynamic, while the story is anything but.

Can’t have a proper library without at least two lions out front.

“Red”, there, looks like the “old” Mark Trail. y’know , before that new guy what’s-his-name starting doing it……..

Hey, now! Hey, wow! Here’s how! Come and read-Between the Lions!