Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 02, 2020

A cover . . . for the janitor?

Good morning™, readers!

Now, Vitamin remembers him (a/k/a/Kelvin the Great). I have two questions:

1. What are those lightning bolts behind his back?

2. Now that the statue is gone, what is his plan? Does he expect money to give it back?

Egad!

Well, at least things are happening.

And Fosdick Tracy is on his way.

I don’t think Vitamin has much to worry about.

Especially since Minute Mystery guests aren’t allowed to knock them off!

Hmmm… First he was Emilio Recalli, then Kelvin the Great, and finally—who knows what?! Ya know, I’m having a tough time getting a temperature on this guy.

WTF with the last panel? It reminds me of the old comical Nazi stomp you see in things like Hogan’s Heroes.

I wonder what the electrical or radio waves in the last panel represent?

Vitamin is pretty upset in panel 2, hope he had his “One_A_Day” that morning!

Master of disguise!!! This one. Who is he???

Revelations smell just like napalm in the morning (or some such improbable simile)!

Emilio Recalli, humble janitor, is none other than the slanderous Kelvin the Great! —Though why Vitamin never recognized him until being held at gunpoint just now and tipped by the “Old-Timer” crack eludes me. He is probably also the “Presto” who demands a million bucks for the restoration of (ugh) Aurora Rising. Would he actually shoot the Old-Timer just to keep things tidy (even if murder rarely makes things tidier)? And what about that lower back pain/“evil wrist radio” bit in panel 3?

Withal, we still don’t don’t know Emilio/Kelvin/Presto’s motive, unless he’s in it strictly for the ransom payout….

JANITOR: I told you not to touch my clean door glass but you just had to to it. Now you pay!

SUGAR DADDY: WAIT! Give me a chance! JANITOR: Fine. I’ll give you 3 guesses. If you can guess which of my joints gives me the most pain as the result of decades of hard janitor labor, I’ll let you live.

SUGAR: Your brain. JOKING! JUST JOKING! Ha ha… JANITOR: Two left funny man.

Bolts of magic! Anyone else notice how the janitor is considerably shorter than Vitamin in panel one but towers over him in panel three? I think it’s more than artist perspective or Vitamin being hunched over.

I guess Presto hurt his back lifting the statue.

I have a hard time believing only ONE person ever called Vitamin ‘Old Timer!’

I think he has a bad back and is putting pressure on it.

If Kelvin’s such a great magician let’s see him make this storyline disappear.

What are those lightning bolts behind his back?

Moon Maid tried to shoot him in the butt and missed.

Good Late night™, broke back zappers !

This Kelvin guy has an odd way of cleaning up.