Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 12, 2025

Sam Catchem has experience. Instinct. Brass and nerve

Aware of Totten’s troubles. Armed Forces he did serve.

Wounds left him a damaged man. Living in the past

Tainted family history he did dredge up at last.

TNT as Sam does see could bring carnage and death

Sabotage a coward’s way to rob others of breath.

Two men very focused. One sinister. One brave

Totten would lay waste to lives. Lives that Sam would save.

“LIGHT ’EM UP!”…

THAT’S for sure…

if Junior has anything to do about it…

Agent Boche?…

Pruneface?…

A new dispensary opened in 2 Fox Plaza.

Good morning™, everyone!

Is that 2750 tonnes of TNT!?

Agent Boche would be Tracy’s old enemy, Pruneface. Judging by the sandwich, Sam has found a connection to him.

I like the parallels between the first two panels on the bottom row as Sam looks across to the last panel with his note.

Just what we need, a strip showing 2 dudes sitting on the toilet!

I mean, isn’t that where the greatest ideas originate?

Failure “must” be an option.

It’s artwork titled “Contemplation” – meaning to think deeply and at length.

Good morning™, Dastardly Gloating & Deadly Determined !

Jr. looks convinced that he’s got it all sewed up, or is that Blowed Up, while Sam has that “it’s only a matter of time (lots & lots of reader time) before we collar Spring Sprung’s killer”; and they might even get the bonus find of uncovering the Blow up plot. ( I have a feeling we will see a Great Blast which will also be a convenient way of killing someone off camera.)

Boche means German (slang) how is that tied to Pruneface?

Story ain’t move much has it. And it still wasting time. Bye byes then. Me rather reads Trucutu on Tarzan.

I guess I owe Eric some credit … a week ago I wondered why, if they were going with a German-WWII era sabotage why didn’t they just bring back Pruneface, apparently that’s what Eric was doing all along.

Do the poses in panels three and four indicate great minds think alike? Or maybe they are saying grace before eating lunch.

If the police are using ESP to determine that a simple murder case is actually a huge terrorism case can’t they use their ESP to determine exactly where / how the explosives are hidden?

And will the reason for the murder that brought the police in ever be explained? As far as we’ve been shown it was random and nonsensical with a heavy dose of coincidence. Is it going to simply be forgotten now, or will Eric try to salvage some scrap of connection to the tower from it?

This is what I wrote last Sunday, after using my Comics KIngdom Premiere membership to see today’s strip:

’Okay, it all adds up now. Agent “Boche” was a codename for trhe Tracy villain Pruneface. He could have been helping with the sabotage. “Boche” and “beach” have similar pronunications. Also, Pruneface was involved with a scientist developing an explosive he named Xylon, which is similar to “xylophone”. (Sprengstoff apparently pronounced the words incorrectly.} In a different case closer to the present day, a Xylon bomb played an important role; apparently, Fred Jr got a hold of one. ’

Whatcha think?

Not talking heads. Silent heads.

Is that a Batman ring Jr. Is wearing?

Sam, contemplating that big Midnight Heist he hs planned for the pastrami factory.

Tomorrow, a double team-up to end this story in a timely fashion: Captain Midnight and ‘Tick Tock’ Tyler.

For SHAME, those of you who didn’t know who the latter is! Your childhoods were barren, cold places.

1- DT: FINALLY!!! The Daily has accepted my demand to tell Sam to light his farts VIA A FRONT PAGE HEADLINE! He can’t ignore that like he ignores my requests! And demands. And orders…

2 – : _Sam leaves himself a note – complete with a cross – to order 2,750 copies of The NEW Testament. Why? Even he doesn’t know that…

3- FRED JR: Bless thee O Lord for these…

4- SAM THE ONLY: …thy Delis from which we just received…

5- :… one Sabatage sandwich, and a Seilla Salad with extra dressing. Oops. I forgot to find out what Agent Boche wanted. I better eat in the men’s room stall so he won’t bug me about it.

In days gone by, Lt. Alison Russo-Elling’s killer would have been executed by now. Say what you will about capital punishment, but it definitely got the trash off the streets.

Wait. Does that notepad mean that there are 2750 TONS of TNT? That’s what the comments seem to show.

The state police could not find 2750 TONS of TNT? That’s well over FIVE MILLION pounds of TNT. I’m no police dog but even I could sniff out that much TNT. And who can BUY that much TNT without leaving a paper trail? If I have paperwork that shows such a purchase I’m going to ask to see it and maybe ask, “What do you need that much TNT for, Mr. Legitimate Businessman?”

Roll of honor? Murdered? Not even on duty…

So the villain just writes 2750 t TNT on a pad, and gets all maniacal?

Two Chess Masters considering their next move and counter move.

Are they praying? Giving thanks for the sammich.

How tragic for a firefighter to lose her life so senselessly! Thank you for honoring Allison.

I speculated the minute mystery was because something was going to happen on new years eve and they needed to retime it, someone here said that would be tasteless. what if that person was right and the minute mystery was aimed to push the story off the real calendar event?

“I’ll be Boche!”

Interesting that the Term Boche is also a French Derogatory Term for the Germans!

“I know all about your “research”.I had relatives in concentration camps!"

Sam Catchem to Dr.Kryos Freezdrei—-1987