Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 17, 2025

we get it…

she wants Dick…

This woman had too much “polonium” for lunch.

Come on lady, make up your mind! Do you want action or Tracy?

I Notice the writer is again Eric Costello. Hope Mike is well.

Dr. Hart has those crazy eyes…

I’m surprised that BobOscar hasn’t submit his regular story review and synopsis comment. Hopefully he’s O.K., maybe he’s in deep trench warfare with that DT group still.

Mind you I wouldn’t blame him for not commenting on that story.

Who is she? It reminds me of Giorgia Meloni when she’s ranting. Calm down,lady

Don’t have a “Hart” attack, Doctor!

She banged the table so hard, Pat’s MCU coffee mug moved, as nicely depicted by our boy Chucky!

I got it! They are Igor and Dr Frankenstein who were tired of digging up corpses from graveyards…

Good morning™, Hot Headed Harpies !

Just two more hours chief and you can go home. That guy’s a rock while she is going off all over the place.

Good morning™, everyone!

I’m guessing that Dr. Hart is the coroner, since I believe it was the coroner’s office that was broken into.

So has this been happening regularly?

Gee, you can demand what detective handles a case? Like, you’re the only crime in Tracyville that matters?

Come to think of it, Tracyville only has one crime at a time.

But Eric has already indicated Tracy is about 120 years old, although he’s a lot like Moses (Deut. 34:7) “Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone.” (NIV)

On the minus side, Tracy hasn’t actually solved anything in years, but he’s got a good track record from relying on his ESP and coincidences that transcend all laws of probability.

It might help if you first establish the identity of the corpse – which is your job Ms Coroner.

Who this dame the mayor of Tracyville? She the chief of chiefs? Or some steenky politician or celebrity? How else she can demanding who be on the case?

Four star Chief Patton .

There is a major obstacle that will make it difficult for Tracy to solve this crime. Standard police procedure involves interviewing the victim of the crime, but in this case, the victim is a corpse. Now a corpse is a corpse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a corpse, of course.

And I want pictures of SPIDER-MAN!

Lots of new posters today.

Welcome to our chat board!

Bigger Mystery is where is Mike Curtis? If He’s unable to continue, why is he still being credited – contractual? Heck, Stan Lee was Credited as Writer on The Spider-Man Comic Strip but it was actually Roy Thomas doing the work for years – atleast Eric gets a credit – but for some mystery reason, we got a minit mystery in them middle of the last story, and now we got a new storyline lasting who knows how long or if Mike Will ever return (Tribune playing out his contract?)

you want the chief of detectives on what is so far a B&E one something that could easily be a college prank?

My guess is there’s something about the place where he died, maybe a hidden cache of dylithium crystals?

Is this a new story ? Or a continuation of the “dance of death” line from last week?

CHIEF: Make up your mind! Do you want action on this or do you want Dick Tracy?

Dr. Frankenstein back at work!

What else would you steal in a morgue? Lab coats?

1- DOCTOR HART: The Mayor has sent me here to perform a prostate exam on you and I MEAN TO DO IT!!!

2- CHIEF: Pish posh. My friend just performed one – with all FIVE digits and said I’m good.

3- DOC HART: BAM! Fine! How about we check for testicular cancer then?!?

CHIEF: Oh – he did that too. With his… DOC HART: NEVER MIND!

Like…who else? Inspector Willoby? (Walter Lantz reference)

“Let’s give this …SAM, is it? a shot. He’s been draining the finances being PAID for all these years, and whenever I see him, he CLAIMS to be ‘this close’ to cracking that big jaywalking ring from 1965. Oh, and once he leaves the MCU, change the locks.”

“Well, a mocha vegan walnut butter frappe latte with beef cubes and hydrogenated soy milk would be a good START!!!”

When did Pat go to a light brown uniform? I thought Tracyville was traditional police blue for patrol, white shirts for supervisors, and, of course “plain” clothes for investigators. (not that you could call some of Lee, and, Liz’s outfits plain.)

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

Not sure if America was in the mood for the Dick Tracy storyline just concluded, about how the families prominent in our civic and financial elites are getting Nazi-curious about their Nazi ancestors. But has there ever been an era that wasn’t up for a good corpse-napping story? Dr. Hart here is [annoyed] about an attempted corpse theft and she wants Neo-Chicago’s top cop on the case! Only he can track down the perpetrators! And, of course, if the notoriously trigger-happy Tracy were to produce more corpses in the course of his investigation, bringing more business to the morgue … well, that would just be an added bonus.

I have been notified that I am being honored during a ceremony at the 2025 Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival in Marshfield, MO on April 24-27, 2025. I will be receiving a star on the Missouri Walk of Fame. The Missouri Walk of Fame includes Entertainers, Authors, Politicians, Sports Personalities, and other celebrities either born in Missouri or who have strong Missouri connections. Only 6 individuals are honored with Walk of Fame Stars each year. I have not yet learned who the other 5 recipients will be.

Many other VIPs who have been previously honored and who will be in attendance are Richard Thomas (John Boy), Kami Colter (Elizabeth) (The Waltons); Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder), Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) and Charlotte Steward (Miss Beadle) (Little House on the Prairie); Tina Cole, Stanley Livingston and Barry Livingston (My Three sons); Mimi Gobson (Voice of Lucky, 101 Dalmatians); Beverly Washburn (81-year-old American Actress, Old Yeller and many others); Margaret Kerry (Disney’s model for Tinkerbell); William Anderson (Author/Historian) and others not yet named.

I will be participating in a panel discussion and signing autographs in the autograph room on April 25th and 26th along with the other recipients and the special guests.

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Given what we learned about the body yesterday, she might want someone more enterprising on the case.

♪♪ “DON’T TAKE ME APART, YOU SHAKY, FLAKY HART!” ♪♪

(excerpted from the Chief’s new album, now available on the Intercop label)

This seems like a rather exaggerated reaction to me.

While stealing bodies from the Morgue would be a crime, and would mess up lots of prosecutions. As in, it shouldn’t be the chief Coroner complaining, it should be the District Attorney!

But having said that, I think it would be much more interesting if they had been surreptitiously delivering a body. And then either amending, messing up, or stealing a lot of the paperwork so it isn’t apparent there is an extra. (And of course, maybe they did that first!) This could also explain the ST-TOS names if they were made up by the villains.

Dr. Hart:

MD? DO? PhD? DD? JD? something else?

(and 4 of those 5 are reasonable for her!)

Somebody take Dr.Hart’s pulse…she’s looking half dead herself…..

MOVIE QUOTE

“Will you stop that. You’re yelling loud enough to wake the dead!”

“I don’t have to wake him up, he’s already up!”

Bud&Lou—-ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN—1948