Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 08, 2016

.Good morning guys!.Another oddball on the scene!

“Master of Disguise?”

New character?

“Don’t mind me ! ….Just wildly speculating”Speculate away, Sir Gweedo! The wilder the better — it’s all good fun!

Gweedo saluted (or salutated),Good morning, Oddball Bill !-————————————————————————.G’mornin’ Gweedo. I’m one of a kind!

Dr. Noface eh? This keeps getting more interesting as it goes on…….

Stayed up late to write this poemAnd let my imagination roamTales of thrills and dangerous spillsAnd watching fate deal bitter pillsA little help from Mike and JoeWould aid my ditty’s ebb and flowYet all I get is Jimmy Blake?The boredom’s more than I can take!I’ll try again tomorrow pleaseFor now it’s times to catch some ZZZzzzz’s!

You sure are, Sweet William!

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Egads! Run for them thar hills VB!

The story just zigged when I thought it was going to zag. Three whole days at Notta’s place, right as her story is moving toward its climax, and it’s time for a scene shift so we can talk about brand new characters?

Are we looking at some sort of ‘entrapment’ scenario?

“What’s good for the goose …”

I thought Master of Disguise was a Dana Carvey vehicle….

Jim Blake is a retired Baseball Player from Mudville. My guess is he got into disguise after Casey struck out…

So if both Sam and Tracy knows who Jim Blake is and why he would be here, why doesn’t Sam say “Jim Blake is waiting for you downstairs” instead?

Lizz looking cute today, as usual.

Oooooh, Green Eyes

“Early in the investigation of the frame up”? Seemed like it was wrapped up pretty quickly. Didn’t seem like much time had passed at all.

Jim Blake, of TV fame, and Doctor Noface? Sigh. Two more characters, one of them in the oddball category, to try to keep track of while figuring out what the story is and where it’s going. A PD detective’s life is never dull, nor neat and tidy….

This story took a sudden shift. I hope it doesn’t take away from the end portion of the Notta story. There were a lot of villains whose gimmick was facial disguises. Of course, Putty Puss in this story, Clayface from Batman, Chameleon from Spiderman. Also characters who hid their faces like the Blank from 1930s Tracy and the Brush from 1962 Tracy. I’d include Half n Half who would alternately cover one side of his face as he moved around to appear to be 2 different people.