Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 26, 2025

Claire… will she wake the dead with her mouth when she starts caterwauling with fake sorrow and grief?…

Showing up in widow’s weeds kind of tips her hand a bit.

“Stiff” competition.

Good morning™, everyone!

While the MCU begins their re-examination of Mr. Piltdown’s office, Mrs. Piltdown arrives at the morgue in mourning clothes. I wonder how logical that is when the identity of the body hasn’t even been identified yet.

Good morning™, Clues Searchers !

Love the P.2. Mod Squad entrance. P.1. Sam is bodacious Good looking !  Like !

When she i.d.‘s the body, will she say "It’s Piltdown, man"?

I would rather see Arlene Saxe as the Morgue attendant!

Do we really know it is Claire under the heavy veil of the widow?

Perhaps Horace, upset with having married into a family of incompetent morons, (Apologies to any actual morons. I should not use such stereotyping… Especially when morons are much smarter than anyone in this family) has donned the outfit himself to make sure the job is done right.

Will the morgue attendant be suspicious when Horace sees the body on the slab, and in a deep, emotional voice chokes out, “It’s me!”

If this story keeps dragging like this, I’LL be in the morgue.

Cross over to Quincy?

Sam should’ve gone before they left… wash your hands afterwards!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“It’s not the odds. It’s the WAIT !!”

Steve Mc Queen—-THE CINCINNATI KID—1965

Sam looks like he wants to clock somebody a good one again .

The team better watch it in P2.

I heard that the One-Eyed, One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater is on the loose.

Looks like a lot of people for such a tiny office.

The card is on t he desk blotter but somebody goofed and painted it over red.

The “grieving widow” does a poor job of hiding the half an onion concealed in her handkerchief.

Seeking a secret second look around, Skulking Sam enters the morgue in a clever disguise as Carol Burnett’s scrub woman.

Calling ahead to tell the you’re coming to search for evidence seems kind of sloppy too…

1- SAM: We have an appointment to check out a crime scene. Well – not a crime scene per se but a scene that might provide clues into…actually. I don’t remember. RECEPTIONIST GUY: You’ll have to wait over there until housekeeping finishes thoroughly cleaning. SAM: OK. I like a thoroughly clean crime scene. Well, not a crime… LIZZ: Just shut up, Sam.

2- SAM: WHOA! A PRIVATE TOILET! Ima blow it up. Those breakfast burritos are running to the exit like a shoplifter with an arm load of Prada Purses!

3- MORTY MORGUEDUDE: You sure you’ll be able to see your dead husband through those fishnets? JACKIE CHAN: Oooops! If these are my fishnets, then I guess I have my Covid Mask on my MONEY MAKER! Yep. There it is. MORTY: I should a never dropped out of school. STOOPID, STOOPID, STOOPID! Oh. Not you ma’am. Walk this way…

JACKIE: If I could walk that way, I’d have to have swivel joints for hips! BOTH: HA HA HA!

So she expects it to be Horace? Is the funeral already planned?

Piltdown’s in-basket has been piling up. I am surprised that nobody at the company noticed this. Or maybe he was called out of the office unexpected like.

Here is the link to an excellent article from 1991 posted on Facebook about Dick Locher’s method of working on the strip. It tells his order of working on the strip from the type and size of the paper he use to the way he indicates color for the Sunday strips. It offers some really good insights into illustrating and pacing the strip. It shows an entire week of dailies as examples. Definitely worth a read.

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