Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 16, 2018

If memory serves, “Terry Beatty” is a Comic Book And Mystery Author in real life. ✨

Good morning™, late night workers!

Is that Clyde, as in Bonnie and Clyde? That would be Clyde Barrow. Maybe I missed something.

Warren Beatty played Clyde Barrow in the Bonnie and Clyde movie… Faye Dunaway played Bonnie…

Good morning™, bank insiders !

Sounds like clyde is going to be a partner whether he wants to or not. And from the sound of recognition he’s got game !

So, he’s Terry Beatty? Is Kato’s first name Gary, by any chance?

At what point will the boys realize they have 48 ounces of story left to put in a 16 ounce cup?

So the pres is working late?

How does one simply stroll into a closed bank with some goons in hand?

A. Snap your fingers and the locked doors open?

B. Tell Alexis to turn off the alarm system?

C. Distract the security guards with some catnip?

D. All of the above.

FYI, Frady I recognize as Joe Frady, Warren Beatty’s character in The Parallax View.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071970/

I think I’m going to go into business selling those flat driving caps to thugs in Tracyville. I should be rich in no time.

Clyde "Bring ‘em Back Alive was a famous animal trainer in the 40s. He was a big name in the circus and I think generated a couple films. I don’t know wheter this name in the strip is an accident or a Combo of Clyde Barrow and Warren Beatty. These guys are so clever it’s hard to tell.

Isn’t Mazuma a slang term for money??

Doesn’t he lock the doors after closing?

This story totally ran out of steam right after Green Hornet & Red Wasp crashed the counterfeiters’ den.

Today’s strip bears the burden of way too many layered puns—Terry Beatty (fictional bank president; RL comic strip writer); Clyde Beatty (lion tamer, famed in the ‘40s, when I was a mere spratling); Warren Beatty (who portrayed Tracy in the film and still controls film rights); Frady (Warren B.’s character in Parallax View); Mazuma (“money”) Bank. The plot is smothered! But Cyrus Topper is about to put the squeeze on “old friend” Terence E. Beatty, President of the Mazuma National Bank. And, fittingly, it is about twilight time at 8:00 PM in Tracyville (Chicagoland/Naperville) around this time of year. So also for Terry, I fear….

mazuma is also the name of a credit union in Kansas city, MO. How bazzar.