Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 13, 2024

“Anywhere you say? Well, get your rubber gloves and start looking!”

Good morning™, everyone!

Ballistics time. This is taking a while.

Could be cached in a hidden “pipeline”.

Good morning™, Capable Suspects !

If these guns have a definite bullet (body damage) signature pattern it shouldn’t be hard for an expert to point blank eliminate some of the suspects.

So, since I am off from work today and tomorrow (fridays and Saturdays are my two days off) and since I ran headfirst into this lovely skull crushing, chest collapsing cold…I might as well fire up another chapter of my dick tracy story since I ain’t going nowhere…I’ll let y’all know when its up

Hey, glad I dropped in today. Take a look at panel one: doesn’t the figure of Sam look like Mr. MaGoo??? LOL!

No need to wait for ballistics. Presuming that silencers actually worked, you can eliminate anyoone who carried a revolver (the cylinder gap would still emit the flash and sound); now just check the muzzles of the remaining automatics, the barrel of the silenced pistol would have to be modified to let the silencer screw on. The person with the modified pistol is the shooter

Quite a handgun collection !

Just give them a fast smell! One that’s been recently fired is more likely to smell – unless the body has actually been there for hours and the killer had time to either grab another gun or thoroughly clean the murder weapon.

SAM (thinking): Collected and duly price tagged as the pawn shop. Hope my origami replicas pass muster at the office!

‘Anywhere’? Tell me this ISN’T going to be a FULL body search!!!!

Bowing out again for a couple of days to tend to some pre-Christmas stuff. I leave those who have previously perused this pedestrian puzzle to slog through the last two days of it, and those who haven’t to be staggered by its slapdash solution….

1- DT: WHOA! The “boys” really itch today. I have to dig in with both hands! Anyway – did you find any guns, Sam? WOODY STEINBERN: I’m not Sam you old coot – look at me! I’m a reporter from the Tracyville Times. So you tell me – did you find any guns?

2- DT: Well duh! This is Amurica – everyone had at least two!

3- WOODY STEINBERN: How about silencers? DT: Like I’m gonna ask ‘em all to drop trou to see if they have on Firebutt Brand Extra Heavy Undies

WOODY STEINBERN: I meant for the guns. DT: Oh. No…

MOVIE QUOTE—-“We are going to forgo the safety checks and go after these Martian Monkeys!”

U.S.Government Official—-SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS—1964

What,no Thompson 45’s??

By the way,in Newport,Kentucky(across t he river from Cincinnati) there’s the house/museum of the man who invented the Thompson.

He intended it to be restricted to Armed Forces use, but the underworld hi-jacked it and the rest is history.

Hmmmmmm, except fit the art…………..nothing!

OT: Nifty. On Saturday and Thursday, I got awards for a couple of my photos I’d entered in shows.

Dr. Plum in the office with the candlesticks…….

We,,taking a week’s vacation to get ready for Christmas—-I’ll be back on Monday the 23rd—-that’ll give the enemy time to wire up the explosives in t he clock tower.

Friday December 20th is UGLY SWEATER DAY. I’m sure we have many potential winners on this website alone

What is that odd, blobby thing covering Sam’s face?

Remember our interrupted storyline? Then you might want to Google “Totten Family Farm” “New Jersey” drones