Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 11, 2017

Now Mr. Hickman is HOPING that Blackjack robs his bank. In the hopes that it will muddy a Federal investigation.

I need to get back to robbing the elderly !

Vista Bill will be a little late while he checks his bank statements. Woe be to them iffen they don’t add up !!

Good morning Brinks man Bill !

Mr. Hickman is probably actually hoping that Blackjack robs his bank. That way he can blame Blackjack for any missing funds, that he has already embezzled.

Good morning guys!

Excuse me now, We have mortgages to foreclose, elderly and poor customers to charge ridiculous overdraft fees to, and lobbyists to influence Congressmen to make what we do legal!

Visual metaphor? The garbage is full = Mr. Hickman is full of garbage?

Perhaps Blackjack’s robbery will ruin the fake robbery he has planned with…(fill in villian here)

BJ ought to deposit half of the loot into Hickman’s personal account. Let the FBI find that and Hickman is toast.

OK, Hickman’s attitude just proven the bank’s unpopularity.

anyone ELSE think joe and mike INTENTIONALLY had Hickman resemble President Trump?

Hairstyle, eyebrows, jowls… it’s all there.

Giving Tracy the brush-off like that certainly isn’t smart. Any legitimate bank manager would be wanting to take steps to prepare for a possible robbery attempt, and hoping the police would stay on the premises to help them, I would think.

I wonder what sort of documents might be in Hickman’s trash can?

That was rather abrupt.

A lot of ways we can see this: a) when a thief isn’t worried about being warned about another thief thieving them, the whole story hasn’t been told; b) it’s too bad there wasn’t another panel where Tracy retorts, “If Blackjack hits this bank, don’t come crying to me!”

Mr. Hickman – who resembles someone though I can’t put my finger on who (or won’t state it) – needs to get to a shredder or find some place to have a trash can fire.

Hickman seems to believe Tracy’s warning is just fake news.

Ah, Frankie, we hardly knew ye!

It certainly does appear that that Mr. Frank Hickman, the well-coiffed bank manager, has something to hide, and two days in a row of prominently-featured trash suggests that a forensic analysis of what is in that waste-bin might turn up evidence of some shady, illegal dealing by Frank, which would be likely to involve the pension defaults.

I suppose, as suggested several times in Comments above, we can count on Blackjack to serve as a catalyst that will draw police and FBI attention and ultimately lead to Humpty Hickman taking a great fall….

Tracy leaving the office: “Well, excuuuuuuuse me!”