Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 31, 2011

Good morning all…

Good morning, VB! Did you get any snow?

And Honeymoon starts the new arc.

Oh, so that wasn’t dowel rods but… real…eeewww….

Let’s have a big hand for the little lady!

Three hands are better than one or none.

Let me be the first to wish everyone Happy Halloween! Very definitely ought to be a national holiday! I remember asking my boss on my first job outta school if we got off for Halloween. I don’t think I lasted very long there. But that was 50 years ago; things changed since then.

Honeymoon rocks! She has a macabre sense of humor. Get your team on the case, Tracy!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!I am going to share my pumpkin pics with everyone. Can you tell I am a fan of anime?

A query for anyone who can answer. I followed Dick Tracy when it was still published in a newspaper I got but there is a long gap in the history from when they stopped printing it and now. I know Moonmaid was killed but what became of her daughter?

@Kadyriath: Yer looking at her! Honeymoon Tracy is actually the child of Junior and the late Moon Maid; note the strategically placed tufts of hair. ;)

@Tarry: Nice Punkins! Didn’t Shelly get a chance to do a Sawyer or Danny this year? ;D

@ M. Mitchell Marmel thanks

Is the spook in panel 3 Mumbles?

Abner Kadaver is a cool name for a ghoul. High five him, Honeymoon!

That would be Sparkle Tracy nee Plenty…believe it or not, the offspring of B.O. and Gravel Gertie.

Aaron

So much for Tracy’s day off. I wonder if the corpse is someone we know.

Honeymoon it’s a little detective.

Honeymoon is quite cool and collected for having a dismembered human hand in hers. She’s a Tracy all right!

Love that Dick is reading the “Police Gazette” … it’s that kind of attention to detail that separates the new Dick Tracy strip from the other strips. Please note that Joe always gives us a background that helps establish location and atmosphere.

I’m with brinik….could that be Mumbles “Hrm..” ????“Her arm…”

How many story arcs are running now? It reminds me of that classic promo—Tracy facing a score or so of his most famous villains, Gould off to one side, pen in hand, saying “I just wanted to see how you would handle them all at once.”

Abner Cadaver is a “tribute” to the archvillain of the same name in Savage Dragon comics. See e.g. http://www.writeups.org/fiche.php?id=4104

Our hero didn’t do well as a father. It’s pretty disrespectful to let your child call you by your last name only.

Just one thing: unless someone has revived the title, Tracy is reading a 35 year old magazine. The American publication, “The National Police Gazette” ceased publication in 1977, and the British “Police Gazette” has also ceased publication.

@OldTracy:

Ordinarily, that would be true. But, Jr’s relationship with Tracy was by no means ordinary. He was a street kid, rescued from a life of crime by Tracy way back when Tracy was single, and everybody called him by his last name. When Jr. started to admire Tracy for what he stood for, calling him “Tracy” was actually a term of endearment and respect. The tradition goes way back to the early days of the strip. Even Pat Patton, and later, Sam Catchem, called him Tracy most of the time, although he called them Pat and Sam. It’s just one of the little things started by Chester Gould that gives the strip its’s unique feel.

Maybe Abner Kadaver is relation to Pruneface or Mrs. Pruneface!

sheesh — no need to yell — just calm down, pop another zoloft and everything will be ok.

Actually,Archie Andrews looks like Junior. Junior has been around since the early 30’s,Archie sine the 1940’s. :>)

IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!!! Yesterday’s advice on copying sensitive documents is good practice -HOWEVER - Many of the copiers out there are now storing copies on a hard drive that can be downloaded by someone else – and that someone could be an identity thief!!!!!

How old are Jewel (Sparkle, Jr.) and Joe Tracy? They look to be about the same age.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Mike Curtis, Wow, pleased to know ya!!!

Dick Locher changed Junior to look like his late son. The new team has returned the character to how he used to look.

Reminds me of the mummified desperado they accidentally found while filming “The Six Million Dollar Man”. They thought it was paper mache until the arm broke off.

Isn’t the “Police Gazette” defunct?