Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 23, 2016

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    Is that Sean Connery …?

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    Rod Gonzalez  about 8 years ago

    It’s supposed to be Dr. Watson.

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    Witness …

    … or accomplice?

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    Can't Sleep  about 8 years ago

    I don’t get the significance of dog’s head cane guy?-———————————I think he’s just another tourist who’s thinking just what we did on Sunday – yep, into the river, dead meat.-I wonder if we’re trying too hard to connect everybody with a cameo (I know, I used to do it).

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    Nigel Bruce …?

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    If it is a descendant of Watson, does he know something we don’t?

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    stsparky  about 8 years ago

    I suspect it’s either a Watson & Holmes partner, or even a descendent of James-Moriarty who knows how to survive the falls is to be in the river.

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    stsparky  about 8 years ago

    https://goo.gl/images/6Cjw5P gives us a single stick with a Wolf’s head — Auguste Lupa AKA Nero Wolfe is supposedly the great Detective’s son

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    Steven Wright  about 8 years ago

    A new man entersSeems to know more than othersWill he help or hurtKnowledge yes but which to helpSeeing strangers what to do

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    AnyFace  about 8 years ago

    Dark Shadows’ Barnabas Collins is known to carry a wolf’s head cane …

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    Neil Wick  about 8 years ago

    By the way, here’s a similar trekking pole on amazon.ca: Store Indya Wooden Walking Stick Cane Hand Crafted with Dog Face Shape Handle

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    poore.ronnie  about 8 years ago

    perhaps the walking stick from Hound of the Baskervilles: http://www.basilrathbone.net/films/shhound/hb004.jpg

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    coratelli  about 8 years ago

    It’s Tracy dead?

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    jimakin  about 8 years ago

    I think we’ve resumed our Grand Tour of classic fictional detectives — except now the sleuths have come to Tracy instead of vice-versa. The tourists all speak English — and I suspect both men are Brits. The robed-and-tonsured gent in the first panel looks to me like a man of the cloth, and G.K. Chesterton’s Father Brown seems a likely candidate. That in turn suggests at least the possibility that the mustachioed gent is Gideon Fell, an amateur sleuth who specializes in “locked room” mysteries, whom creator John Dickson Carr patterned on the real-life Chesterton.

    There’s nothing familiar to me about Louise, but something about her “Yeah” makes me think she’s a yank. Googling a bit turned up no likely fictional characters, but I did come across a description of Louise Rensil, a real-life former film-studio executive who claims she’s discovered the inspiration for two of fiction’s greatest gumshoes, Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe, in the person of one Sam Marlowe, an African-American detective who worked in Hollywood in the 30s and 40s. That Louise was described, in the 2014 L.A. Times feature story “Finding Marlowe,” as “a wisp of a redhead with high cheekbones and appraising eyes.”

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    Pequod  about 8 years ago

    Geez, Louise, pleaseTake a picture of the river.To fall so far and land in thatIt makes a body shiver.The dogged headUpon the caneIts eyes so fiercely lockedUpon the churning watersIts owner far from shocked.His calm demeanorSays so muchYet the man remains so silent.The men he sawPlunge to the mawDid battle oh so violent.

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    flowerpainter  about 8 years ago

    I am loving this story! :D

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    mikeg52  about 8 years ago
    Nigil Bruce:

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    carlzr  about 8 years ago

    The way this strip is going, Simon Templar will be making an appearance.

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    tsull2121  about 8 years ago

    i find it amazing how seemingly nobody just “reads the strip” anymore and wants to “decipher the clues” or “try to outwit the writer by guessing the road the story will take” before it’s unveiled.

    whatever happened to just ENJOYING a comic strip?!?

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    Kip W  about 8 years ago

    First thought was that the stick’s a clue or a totem. Then I thought he was just giving it a good look.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  about 8 years ago

    .Good morning guys!.Have no fear, Vista Bill is here!

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  about 8 years ago

    Maybe a Baskerville? Not Barnabas Collins…?

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    Morrow Cummings  about 8 years ago

    Z-z-z-z-z. I’d have been more impressed if his cane had a goat’s head on it. Maybe, “honored” is a better word.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 8 years ago

    I don’t recall Watson having such a cane.

    He looks a bit like William J. Burns “America’s Sherlock Holmes,” too.

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    Larry L Stout  about 8 years ago

    Is he quoting lines from the Sherlock Holmes story?

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    abdullahbaba999  about 8 years ago

    We Are All Dick….TBC…

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    artsyguy65  about 8 years ago

    Dr. Watson makes several references to a similar cane, Holmes’ “alpine stock”, in The Adventure of the Final Problem. In the accompanying original illustrations it is depicted as having a curved dog’s-head handle.

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    Sisyphos  about 8 years ago

    Though other, more erudite, speculation in earlier comments here may better describe the first panel, I cannot help but hear a (sly?) reference to Ethel, here Louise, in Ray Stevens’ The Streak (how low-brow of me!).As for the gentleman in panels 2 and 3, who seems to know the Holmes & Moriarty story well, he looks to me like A.I.C. Doyle himself, who at times used a cane (though with limited, online research, I cannot find reference to one with a dog’s or wolf’s head). See the Doyle statue (from Wikipedia)….Did Tracy and Kadaver really plunge into the river?

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    timbob2313 Premium Member about 8 years ago

    looks like dog head cane guy is a brand new character. A brand new super villain no doubt.

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    smartman  about 8 years ago

    Being greedy, can we have both Vincent Price (radio) and Roger Moore (TV) play Simon Templar? I loved both their portrayals. (No, I’m nowhere near old enough but thanks to retro-TV channels and Satellite radio I got to enjoy both) And I agree that that has to be either Watson or Doyle in the last frame. Only makes sense due to Holmes not actually dying there in the books.

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    glynis37  about 8 years ago

    Looks a lot like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to me.

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    Neil Wick  about 8 years ago

    I don’t get the significance of dog’s head cane guy ?

    I believe that it’s meant to be an intriguing puzzle. You are not supposed to get the significance.
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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  about 8 years ago

    .Lawrence Talbot used a silver wolf’s head cane to kill the gypsy lady’s husband, a werewolf, that attacked him. Alas, Larry was bitten in the fight..Enter: “The Wolfman”!.

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    abdullahbaba999  about 8 years ago

    Into the Mighty River…TBC

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 8 years ago

    Go with the humour !!!

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