Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 15, 2025

Dick plunging headlong into the jaws of…

danger…

Every skin doctor’s “frightmare”.

Wow! What a difference a day makes!

Such action!

Determination!

Anticipation!

Perspiration!

Great story movement by Hillbilly Eric!

Fantastic depiction by Chucky Cheese!

Well done, Lads, well done!!!

Smoking gives you wrinkles!

Does Itchy still exist?

Action stations! Anything can happen in the next half hour!

Almost a quote from Stingray.

Good morning™, (P.4) Featureless Faces !

Dick and Sam hustled so, that Chucky couldn’t finish adding features to their faces. If only Dick had suspected there’d be a break coming up he wouldn’t have bothered to take off the Trademark yellow overcoat nor poured that extra serving of Snail brew.

Tracy’s fists are giggling.

Today, They got the runs!

Good morning™, everyone!

They are on their way, all four of them together. Confrontation at the Totten Building coming right up!

The buildup was unexciting with which to begin. Now, I expect Eric to ruin a fabulously fiendish Gould creation by not letting us in on the story at all.

Pruneface should be used as a model in an anti-smoking ad. Lung cancer doesn’t worry you? Wait till you get pruneface.

Sam has much more than merely ‘heard of’ Pruneface, unless Eric is somehow oblivious of Boche’s post-Gould return appearances….

Were Sam and Tracy not working together when Pruneface was cryogenically revived in 1983? Sam doesn’t seem to remember that time.

“Yes, Sam, we got trouble!”

“Right here in our city!”

“With a capital T and that rhymes with B and that stands for BOOOOM!”

Two strips in three days of Dick super-heroically donning/doffing his coat.

Hmm, according to the Dick Tracy wikipedia page, Pruneface was presumed dead in 1942, then “revived” in 1983 as part of a cryogenic experiment.

AH! But, in a clever bit of subterfuge, a trowel and fifty gallons of grout come into play,and seemingly innocent Mr. Igotta Smoothface casually strolls past Tracy and company. Suffering Sam, who lacks the coin for a decent fix of pastrami, even hits him up for a handout.

But, woe upon woes, that counterfeit quarter is to be Smoothface’s downfall!

Sam also had to scout the kitchen for three weeks to pay for his bogus coinage. (Not that he minds, as he gets a bit woozy from the pastrami fumes…in a good way.)

And now…you know the rest of the story you really didn’t need to hear.

Good day.

Whoa! Whoa! Slow DOWN Tracy! You’re going to run into the edge of the panel!

>KEEEE-RUNCH<

So THAT’S how he got that square jaw! Did not know that!

TRACY: And straighten your bow tie for action!

SAM (trailing distractedly along behind) (in best Johnny voice): And there’s a SALE at PENNEYS!

1- DT: I remember when my dad was 34 years old, he told me to always smoke cigarettes with filters because they kept the skin-aging effects of tobacco smoke away from you…

2- : …he was right! I’m 99 years old and I look great! I took his advice but he ignored mine when I told him not to go on that air gondola ride over Berchtesgaden. I’ll never forget his last words: If I lean out real far I can see where Blondie the dog used to crap on the lair’s veranda…

3- : COME ON SAM! THAT MEMORY HAS GIVEN ME ONE OF MY INFAMOUS EPIPHANIES! I know who pushed Dad outta that gondola!

MOM! HOW COULD YOU?!? SAM: Should we bring backup? How about my gun? Cuffs? Car keys…?

What happened to the General? Haven’t seen him in a few days.

For some strange reason, Godzilla’s foe Hedorah always reminds me of Pruneface. On a somewhat related note, am I the only one who think that Gigan (another Godzilla enemy) looks like Foghorn Leghorn?

Love the updated Pruneface! Looks a little closer to reality.

OT: Dick Tracy reference on a JEOPARDY rerun, just now, regarding the wrist radio.

Idiot guessed Batman.

Racing off with clinched fists isn’t usually Tracy’s style…….

YEEP!! The first panel—-he looks even uglier and more evil than his late wife;if possible…..