Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 22, 2025

Good morning™, everyone!

The connection between the church and the dead body is some progress.

The new colored coffee cups are so exciting!!!

Tracy bites his fingernails!!!

Working against “cross” purposes.

“Since it appears he made be a veteran, maybe we should run his prints through the Defense Department, Tracy.” “We don’t go in for that kind of scientific junk here at the MCU, Lee. Instead, we use tried & true old fashioned methods, like wild guess work & 30-year-old printed maps.”

Is it a Chicago map because I checked the real location of the church in NY on Google maps and it’s not depicted as it shown here?

Good morning™, Murder Map Readers !

Will Horace’s plan go through before MCU can suss out who and what the devil is going on ?  Are those soap bubbles on Lee’s head ?  Charles rugged face template is getting a lot of wear. ;-p LOL !  From now on I will only get road atlases when Carlo’s name is on as the illustrator.

So… Sarge, the homeless vet with bad teeth (until recently) is the secret identity of Horace Piltdown, the man with a fancy home and wife, who can’t hold a job? This one may require all of Tracy’s ESP powers to figure out whose cage to rattle.

Let me guess – the dead man was heir to a fortune.

The MAP is clearly labelled as such, so why isn’t the stapler? Assuming that is what that green implement is in the drawer.

1- LEE: You appear to be deep in thought, Tracy. I’ve never seen you even ankle-deep in thought before. What’s up?

2- DT: I’m thinking about taking my first vacation in 60 years! Here – lemme show you…

3- : …I’m thinking of going from here …to here! LEE: That’s not “taking a vacation” – that’s taking a short walk. DT: At 90, there’s no such thing as a short walk. I figure it’ll take me a week to get there and back.

LEE: That park is a good block away so – good luck. You’ll need it given that you can’t even find your-ass with both hands and a flashlight!

He picked up the map at a gas station.

That’s a block?

Ignore the curved line from Tracy’s finger, and it is. Unless you live in Texas, where one block (such as the one would be three blocks by standard the city measure of street to street