Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 28, 2025

Dick with some true grit…

Good morning™, everyone!

Ouch! but that won’t delay him for long.

Tracy’s previous career of door-to-door salesman comes in handy!

The “arresting pain” of impending success.

Good morning™, Pushy Salesmen !

Reminds me of cartoons where a foot gets caught in a door. I think there was one where Daffy Duck is a door to door sales guy and had a shoe on a stick to keep the door propped open.

That’s gotta hurt!

The old, “Foot in door” trick!

Tracy must be singing, ’Twinkle Twinkle little star!"

Gives new meaning to playing footsy. Junior gonna pay for that.

Ah for the good old days! When I was a little boy, my momma would send me down to a corner store with $1 and I’d come back with 5 potatoes, 2 loaves of bread, 3 bottles of milk, a hunk of cheese, a box of tea and 6 eggs. You can’t do that now… Too many security cameras!

Crime Stoppers Textbook: Rookies! Beware of fleeing suspects using doors as weapons! Especially in chases that begin outside but inexplicably end up inside!

I feel your pain, Tracy!

Was Tracy once a salesman?!

Somebody may be wearing a cast…owch…that door.

Cut to the chase already.

We’re not talking flimsy wooden door here, the kind that would simply bounce off the sturdy shoes the police wear to protect their feet. No siree bob, we’re talking metal reinforced, industrial strength door here. It was installed in 1942 to keep Nazi saboteurs from installing a bomb in the factory.

Clearly it has failed in its job. It should be fired and lose its pension.

Ha ha ha. This look like tom n jerry cat n mouse chasing.

Aha! Assaulting a police officer! Time to pull the gun and drill him!

Dick’s cussing !

Oh my stars! That looks painful.

MOVIE QUOTE

“You have two ways of leaving this establishment, Sir. Immediately or dead”.

Hugh O’Brien to card Cheat—-THE SHOOTIST—1976

Ye Olde Saleman’s Foot-In-The-Door Trick…..many an encyclopedia set and/or Electro-Lux vacuum cleaner has been off-loaded as a result of this ploy!!……..

ouch… sure that’s gonna slow him down a little. :{

Dick Tracy is doing his famous impersonation of a persistent door to door salesman…..

Hey,whatever happened to Togo?

“I’ll catch him if my name isn’t Duck Twacy!”

For a moment last week, as Tracy and the gang realized a Pruneberry was back in town, this strip grew tense and was good. Then, reality ensued.

Owie-owie-OWIE!!!!

And so, early medically-oriented retirement loomed. However, like a modern-day Ironside, Dick wheeled madly around town, seeking out crime. Sam, who replaced him, frequently cruised past in his fancy new patrol car, honking and snickering cruelly as he challenged Tracy to ‘a friendly little race.’

To make ends meet, Tracy took a job as a pizza deliveryman. That only lasted three days, as wheelchairs aren’t exactly ‘30 minutes or less’ friendly. The $12,000 he had to repay the company for late deliveries was a bit of a problem. He had to stop buying his favorite brand of chin sharpener cream and switch to generics.

When yellow fedoras and trench coats became too expensive, he had to go with black. That led to the humiliating incident in which he was mistaken for the Black Spy from SPY VS. SPY.

We never speak of that.

“Waaaaait! I just want to sell you some encyclopedias!”

1- FRED JR – suffering a psychotic break : GO AWAY, DAD! I JUST WANNA BE ALONE IN MY ROOM FOR AWHILE! Why do my plans always go wrong! I’m such a loser, loser LOSER!

2- DT: OWWWW! MOTHER FRAGGLE SON OF A BISCUIT EATING BANANA SUCKING…

3- DT: Oh well. I got him trapped in the room with the bomb and I stopped it from going off so – no hurry! I mean, what can he do in there now?

FRED JR: DAD?!? Do you have a lighter? I need to light this fuse. DT: I’M NOT YOUR DAD! But sure – I got a lighter. Here ya go…

Today is not Tracy’s usual reaction to doors.

Https://postimg.Cc/06ygQ0w6

Https://postimg.Cc/mhH881jv

Https://postimg.Cc/rRk0z7Wg

Https://postimg.Cc/8fh9KGJp

SNAIL’s PACE

Looks like Junior will fall off the clock tower, as I suspected.

Either Blondi is very strong, pushing a metal door, or both.

good thing he didn’t wear his yellow sneakers

and why are Dick’s pants yellow?… shouldn’t it be black?…

December 16-17, 2023: Libris runs up a set of stairs and has some foot difficulties.

January 28, 2025: Tracy runs up a set of stairs and has some foot difficulties.