When Bonnie Brads came home from the west coast many months ago, I was going to post about how Joe Tracy came to be named Joe, but I never did. This seems as good a time as any.
Dick and Tess were out in Washington state to see their daughter. Tess said they hadn’t seen her for two years. Honeymoon was with them and “Uncle” Vitamin Flintheart showed up at the airport to join them. In Washington, they met Bonnie’s “good friend” (perhaps boyfriend), Detective Joe Sampson, who was investigating a convenience store robbery. The owner had been shot.
While Tracy and Honey went on a hike at the Indian reservation where Bonnie was teaching, Vitamin and Tess went for a wilderness ride in the car and came across the robbers (“Bony” and his girlfriend) who kidnapped them and their car. Of course that’s when Tess went into labour.
Vitamin subdued Bony and helped deliver the baby, just as Det. Joe of the tribal police found the car and its occupants.
Capt. Joseph Patterson, in the words of his Wikipedia article, “influenced Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, changing the title from Plainclothes Tracy, and he supported Gould’s vision of a technical, grotesque and violent style of storytelling.” He also suggested that Walt adopt Skeezix in Gasoline Alley and gave the idea to Milton Caniff that became Terry and the Pirates.
When Bonnie Brads came home from the west coast many months ago, I was going to post about how Joe Tracy came to be named Joe, but I never did. This seems as good a time as any.
Dick and Tess were out in Washington state to see their daughter. Tess said they hadn’t seen her for two years. Honeymoon was with them and “Uncle” Vitamin Flintheart showed up at the airport to join them. In Washington, they met Bonnie’s “good friend” (perhaps boyfriend), Detective Joe Sampson, who was investigating a convenience store robbery. The owner had been shot.
While Tracy and Honey went on a hike at the Indian reservation where Bonnie was teaching, Vitamin and Tess went for a wilderness ride in the car and came across the robbers (“Bony” and his girlfriend) who kidnapped them and their car. Of course that’s when Tess went into labour.
Vitamin subdued Bony and helped deliver the baby, just as Det. Joe of the tribal police found the car and its occupants.
Capt. Joseph Patterson, in the words of his Wikipedia article, “influenced Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, changing the title from Plainclothes Tracy, and he supported Gould’s vision of a technical, grotesque and violent style of storytelling.” He also suggested that Walt adopt Skeezix in Gasoline Alley and gave the idea to Milton Caniff that became Terry and the Pirates.