Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 19, 2014

Hhhmmmm . . .

Admittedly, Simmons Corners was unlikely to have actual Nazi aircraft flying over it, but Annie is good at this kind of organization.

Does she have a plan to make him forget to listen to Belinda? Are the Junior Commandos like the Junior Crimestoppers?

Interesting…..

Good morning fans. Annie must have a plan in mind.

That store FYI is the property of Lum and Abner. Bless my soul.

Here is Wikipedia on Annie’s Junior Commandos

Must. Get. Some. Sleep. Too much birthday cake. Ahhh, the new Annie comic guest starring Dick Tracy is up. Let’s see what’s happening toda,,,,,, ZZzzz.

Here are some classic pictures:

One more:Looks kind of racist from today’s perspective.

I can’t wait… The Jot ’Em Down Store… I feel like a kid at Christmas!

Lum & Abner? Really? Gosh, I was just a kid when I heard them on the radio. Didn’t know they were still around.

Huh? Wait a minute, this is screwy …The Jot ‘Em Down Store is located in Pine Ridge Arkansas NOT Simmon’s Corner.

Nice to see an “Arf” again, even if it’s an old one. Thanks for the art.

But I’m sure some story apologists will come up with a scenario or two to cover this.

Will Annie’s scheme to free Officer Tracy from Belinda mind-control succeed? Will Lum and Abner turn out to be longtime inhabitants of Simmons Corners? Will the Junior Commandos ever see an actual Nazi aeroplane? For the answer to these and and other questions, kids, stayed tooned to the adventures of DICK TRACY, detective! And tell your mom, I want Ovaltine!

I must say, Tracy looks pretty dapper in that police uniform.

Annie needs to get Prof Kenyon to look at one of the decoder badges and see what’s inside of them.

It’s easy to get from Pine Ridge to Simmons Corners quickly. Just hail a Fresh Air Taxicab.

those Nazi aircraft will be over the city in swarms, launched from the Nazi aircraft carrier that somehow sneaked into the harbor and launched its hordes of destruction.such were the paranoid delusions of the mindsets of the 1940’s populace in the United States.On the west coast , they feared Japanese planes bombing their cities, but it was just as irrational

Lum and Abner still have a presence In the modern day. http://www.lumandabnersociety.org/Comic-Strip-Home.html

Artwork today is just sooo excellent. Tracy’s uniform. Such depth.

Wow. Lum and Abner! I haven’t heard them since I was a kid in Sweetwater, TN. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Also, the old Annie panels.

We get some Lum & Abner tomorrow! One excited guy, here. Hope some of the folks who remember the old fellows from Pine Ridge will check out the Lum & Amber comic strip here, too!

Hmmm…wonder who wrote out Tracy’s schedule for him?

Town Council meeting? Another mass hypnosis session?

I have to agree with everyone who has complimented Joe’s artwork today.

I must also say that Shelley’s inking on this arc has been superb, particularly her crosshatching and shading in the Harold Gray style.

I admire both Joe and Shelley in the way that they have come up with a presentation that does not mimic Harold Gray’s style but suggests it by using perspectives and techniques common in the old-style strips of the 40s. Gray was never a great illustrator nor do I remember him using parallel (or slightly upward) perspective (where the characters are drawn straight-on feet touching the bottom of the panel—Gray’s characters were usually cut off at the knees). Parallel perspective was a technique used often by Dick Moores when he did Gasoline Alley but here with Shelley’s shading, it suggests heavily the older style while still highlighting Joe’s amazing illustrations.

Usually, whoever does the coloring on the dailies for Go Comics gets hammered by the posters—most of it well deserved. However he/she deserves compliments on this arc. Apparently he/she has paid attention to both the artwork and the story line. Just as Joe’s artwork has changed in the Simmons Corners panels, so has the coloring. The use of muted and faded colors enhances the mood and mystery of the story.

@JPuzzleWhiz yesterday: Can anyone tell me why that barber pole has black stripes, in addition to the traditional red, white and blue ones?

Joe draws the panels in black and white. The black and hatched stripes on the pole were meant to represent the colored stripes. The colorist added the red and blue to Joe’s white stripes otherwise, the pole would have been only black and white.

This is a comic strip, for crying out loud. Just enjoy it. Sheesh.

Is this all a dream? Tracy is in the hospital somewhere, family all around, waiting for him to come out of the coma?

Along with Fonz, we’ve jumped the shark. Any chance of going back to those 3-4 week stories?

@Neil Wick“Looks kind of racist from today’s perspective.”-——Hanging was a common form of execution back then, and Annie is referring by name to two of the Axis leaders, not an ethnic group.

Ironically, the one Axis leader she didn’t name – Mussolini – was captured by the Italian people and hung from a lamp post.

Gee, next Annie will meet Belinda Blue-Eyes!!!:)

Avenger – Judy Hansel said she had a “special” birthday present for you. Inquisitive minds want to know! She was in NYC.

New article:Lum and Abner Join Dick Tracy, Southwest Times Record story

Good afternoon guys!

Late again today but I’ll surely stay up until 1:11 am (EDST) for the Sunday strip. It’ll surely be a winner!

This was in the news again recently:

It concerns a U-boat found in the Gulf of MexicoSo they did get closer than a lot of people suspected.

hm, cop dating underage girl to ‘look at planes’

Maybe the “Jot ’Em Down Store” was/is a chain store?Now if they can work in Fibber McGee & Molly and the Great Gildersleeve,I will be in fan-boy heaven!

“But my question was, why were there black stripes. I’ve never seen a real barber pole with them.”--The black stripes were there for the benefit of the newspapers printing it in black and white.Without ’em, it would have just been a white pole.

This is great stuff, in so many ways!

You know what, I really like how this story is coming about.