Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 05, 2015

Tellum looks a little snooty and sounds somewhat nosy in panel 1. WHAT A CHANGE WHEN HE IS AGHAST IN PANEL #3

Good morning guys!

The Unofficial GoComics Staton/Curtis Death ListAs compiled by boboscar and Tarry PlaguerNOTE: Names with a + were found dead or killed prior to the story start.+ Wormy & Thistledew (Reported dead in armory fire)03/21/11Flyface 04/22/11The Fifth & Eddie Garcia (at the same time) 04/25/11Earl (Flaky and Hot Rize’s innocent co-worker) 05/12/11Hot Rize 05/28/11Emma Parks (A.K.A. Ponytail Mk I) 06/14/11The 2 terrorists who tried to hire and double cross Morning Gloria 08/13/11Big Frost 10/20/11Apparatus Member (Killed by DoubleUp) 10/25/11 & fed to Tonsils 10/27/11Flaky Biscuits (never confirmed, but implied) 10/29/11+ Sizzler Sitzes (Hired by Kadaver to kill Charles Adams A.K.A. Baron Clovis in a hit and run. Was then shot and killed by Kadaver to keep him quiet) 10/31/11 identified 11/09/11Cueball 01/31/12 Mr.. Levitz (Doubleup’s main henchman in his first story; later killed by Kadaver to get Doubleup off) 03/13/12+ Vincent Vinyl 05/05/12 confirmed 05/11/12The 3 supporting members of the Mumbles Quartet 05/20/12Lt. Teevo 07/06/12 confirmed 07/18/12Panda 07/15/12 confirmed 07/23/12Davey Mylar (A.K.A. Mr. Crime Mk II) 07/13/12 tombstone 09/30/12+ Arthur Curry (aquarium director) 08/22/12Bookie (Measles’ partner) 10/14/12Measles 11/10/12+ Stephen Baux’s fiancée 02/08/13 identified 02/27/13Simon Baux A.K.A. Sweat Box 02/24/13Diet Smith Industries Guard (supposedly killed by Bardoll) 06/25/13 (uncertain; shown lying on the ground and called a “casualty” on 6/29/13, but unconfirmed)Bardoll 07/07/13 confirmed 07/16/13Hy Pressure 09/28/13 confirmed 10/08/13Drs. Sail, Ghote, and Flash Munroe? (still alive last we saw them, and ambiguous that they’re dead, but it often sounds like Curtis thinks of them as dead) 10/18/13Bill “Shortcake” Mitchell (apparatus member) (never confirmed, but implied) 10/31/13Miles Mycroft 01/26/14Mr.. Kolossal 04/30/14Ed Rosato (never confirmed, but implied) 05/14/14Tabby Angus 05/28/14The Butcher of the Balkans A.K.A. Henrik Wilemse (Punjab placed his magic blanket over him, sending the Butcher on to “fly with the Maji” where none have ever returned) 07/27/14Axel’s “crack combat troops” (implied to have all gone the same way as The Butcher of the Balkans a la Punjab) 09/30/14Axel 10/05/14Otis 12/05/14Mrs.. Flattop 03/01/15 confirmed 03/06/15Cork 04/29/15 confirmed 05/01/15Fontane 05/06/15 confirmed 05/12/15Jimmy Choo Shooz 06/04/15

For those who claim the Staton/Curtis team is soft-on-crime, see above.

And awayyyyyyyy it goes …

… “The Little House On The Creek,” that is.

Good morning Tracy and Sam fans. Additionally a hearty greeting to Gweedo ’it’s also legal here’. Someone called it yesterday. Ted’s house is a goner. Have a restful night my friends.

Sounds like “Falling Water” fell.

Jimmy said, “There was something buried here a few days ago and now it’s gone.” Tellum has no idea what Jimmy was looking for.

So, Ted’s house is “sliding into the lake”? It’s never good when you see your house moving on it’s own. It don’t know what Ted’s going to do, but I think we’re done with him for a while.

Tellum, the friendly fella, is now the homeless hobo!

Like I said….hope he has a good insurance policy……

I am still not giving up on Jimmy. I have faith in his survival instincts and the billion dollar worth of gold is a very good incentive

If Ted wasn’t in shock yesterday (as it seemed to me), he should be today (panel 3), seeing his “little house” up the creek without a paddle. I wonder how much the joint was worth, and how much he’ll tell the insurance company it was worth once he has recovered his crafty wits?And, is Tracy hinting (to us) that he knows something about the gold (panel 2) but isn’t prepared to reveal it publicly just yet?

As something of a Media Celebrity in radio (and based on Arthur Godfrey?) . . .You’d have to think, this*Tellum -* is highly Naïve , , , Alarmingly “disconnected”, and unaware of the BIG events happening around him ?

Doesn’t the man read the papers like every one else ? It’s not everyday that someone steals Billions of Dollars in Gold from a nearby Train?

He appears to be the only resident in the area, and deeper roots, (one) with a Studio in the Lake district … so you’d think, he’d have some ‘knowledge’ of that old, unused train tunnel opening on the Lake.So ‘self centred’ that he’s unable to hazard a connection ?

Tracy here. seems very ‘dismissive’, it’s clear he doesn’t like the man ? Something of a change from the Wormy (1950) past ! ?

Poor ole Ted went from haughty to Oh My Gosh in a split second! Look on the bright side Ted that rig that you didn’t like looking at is nowhere in sight.

@boboscar: thanks for post the list of dead villains. _________@SYDNEY PHILLIPS: maybe Ted is an introvert who is now in shock. He has lost his beautiful lake and house, almost lost his life twice and has witnessed Jimmy’s demise._________Be well my friends.

Somewhere, Julius LaRosa is smiling.

And the HITS just keep on comin’!

Wow!

Tellum now has a mobile home…

Yup, Godfrey, the friendly guy. From your link: “Most fans perceived Godfrey as a warm, friendly personality, and Godfrey’s action toward La Rosa ran counter to that image.”

maybe the gold was under the house…

Do I detect a subtle smirk from Sam? Nahhh….

Quite the nosy guy, Tellum is, and wise of Tracy not to cue him in about the gold, lest Tellum makes a claim for it (he might claim Jimmy’s dig on ‘private property’—his, of course)

But his “Little House” has slipped into the lake, and his ‘property’ is gone. Like other posters said—he better have good insurance. If he doesn’t, he’s a bigger fool.

I imagine that the house’s value is a matter of record. The real estate agency that sold him the house may have the exact figure.-————————————————-The house’s value when he purchased it is on record, but that’s sure to be well below the latest tax assessment value of the property, which would include the broadcast studio, and access road connecting them. Of course, he could bought them like that, but only if the previous owner was a vain fathead like him.I’m sure Ted will be very imaginative when it comes to listing the house’s contents, though. Just as the rowboat with an outboard motor will show up on the insurance as a 20 foot sailboat.

Considering all the water flooding the salt mine, I wonder if the lake bed might collapse as well, or is that too far above the salt mine?

I suspect that the salt will dissolve into the water killing all the life in it making it “Dead Lake”.According to the news videos that Neil Wick and others linked us to some days ago, the real-life incident that this is based on had salt water running into the lake from the bay, because the canal started to run backwards because of the tremendous pull of the whirlpool. The lake became a salt water lake, but the aquatic life within the lake did not disappear altogether – it just changed over time to salt water species. Perhaps that is what will happen here?

RWM, I remember it all too well. And I remember the storyline. I don’t think I’d dignify it with my avatar, though.

Changing the subject to the lake, at some point in time, the volume of the salt mine might dictate that it is full, and the water should stop rushing in. If it drains the lake, then the lake was pretty small, or the mine was huge. To drain like that, the siphon has to vent somehow. Could be the shafts?

There’s something about Ted Tellum that I don’t particularly like. Can’t put my finger on it. Now with Venus, it’s a different story!

Maybe a single panel of the house falling into the river tomorrow?