Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 04, 2021

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    AnyFace  about 3 years ago
    ”Happy Birthday~!!” ✨
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    Brian  Premium Member about 3 years ago

    “Diet Smith sent a drone back so I could view my own birth!”

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    seanyj  about 3 years ago

    Happy 90th Birthday Tracy

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    22ph  about 3 years ago

    80 years….

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    pschearer Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Don’t they have a retirement age in this P.D.?

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    Johnny Q Premium Member about 3 years ago

    In the earliest strips Tracy looked like a weenie! (He didn’t yet have the square jaw…)

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  about 3 years ago

    Good morning™, party boys !

    I hope I look half as good when I’m Dick’s age. Lizz looks like a boy in drag, with those “exuberant” eyelashes.

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    coratelli  about 3 years ago

    90 YEARS!

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    Jab Jr 1957  about 3 years ago

    Does anyone else find it strange that Lizz and Sam don’t know Tracy’s birthday?

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    Ashmael  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday!

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    BigDaveGlass  about 3 years ago

    Many Happy Returns of the Day!

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    Aladar30 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    HAPPY BIRTHDAY DICK TRACY!

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member about 3 years ago

    (raises a glass) Here’s to another 90 years! :)

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    blunebottle  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday, Dick!

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    iggyman  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday Dick, and you sure do not look your age!

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    Neil Wick  about 3 years ago

    Good morning™, everyone, and a happy birthday to Dick Tracy!

    The history in the third panel is a little misleading, although it’s essentially what I believed to be true until about a year ago. We are led to believe that Gould sent samples to Capt. Patterson at the Tribune, but it’s a little more complicated than that, because the Captain didn’t work at the Tribune at the time. In fact, he didn’t even work in Chicago, aside from occasional visits. He didn’t approve it on behalf of the Tribune, either. The Trib didn’t start carrying it until months after it began.

    Cousins Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick and Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, became the editors and publishers of the Chicago Tribune in 1914. After learning about the tabloid format from a London publisher, the Captain went to New York in 1919 to found the Daily News tabloid. McCormick and Patterson were both listed as editors and publishers of both papers until 1925/26 when Patterson officially gave up his position at the Tribune and McCormick gave up his titles at the Daily News.

    McCormick-Patterson had founded Liberty magazine in 1924, but it constantly lost money (reportedly $12 million) until they finally sold in 1931 it to magazine publisher Bernarr Macfadden, partly in exchange for Macfadden’s newspaper, The Detroit Mirror. During the following 16 months, the paper lost $2 million and it was suddenly closed down without warning in August 1932. Employees of the Mirror got one week’s severance pay. The Detroit Free Press promptly started carrying Dick Tracy that month.

    Eventually, I will write more of this, because I find it rather fascinating.

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    zoner1974  about 3 years ago

    Very impressive! Happy birthday!

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    avenger09  about 3 years ago

    Happy birthday Dick, cut back on the coffee!

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    kantuck-nadie  about 3 years ago

    Happy birthday Tracy! May we have many, many more years of this fine strip.

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    farside2000 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday Dick Tracy and Congratulations on your longevity

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    tripwire45  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday.

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  about 3 years ago

    Oct 4 1777 George Washington tried to retake Philadelphia in a surprise dawn attack that resulted in the battle of Germantown. Despite initial success Washington’s troops got bogged down and by 10 AM Washington was pulling back first to settle at Whitpain PA that was still too close to the British forces and would eventually end in december as he led the colonial army into a place called Valley Forge.

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    Chris  about 3 years ago

    well, congrats Tracy! Enjoy your party, you’ve more than earned it.

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    upanddown17  about 3 years ago

    I believe the first villian Tracy had to deal with was Muggs Skeater.

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    Civanfan  about 3 years ago

    Here’s to another ninety years of “flesh wounds” and holey hats.

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    Zoomer&Yeti  about 3 years ago

    Happy 90th!

    I like that Dick’s birthday is 10-4.

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    oakie817  about 3 years ago

    HIPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Crowmeus  about 3 years ago

    They should have had Tess and the rest of the Tracy clan bring in a cake.

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    TracyFan 65  about 3 years ago

    Ninety years. A pretty darned good run!

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    Sayman  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday!

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member about 3 years ago

    It’s 90

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    TheBigPickle  about 3 years ago

    Lookin’ pretty good for a fella of 90 years.

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    rabbeye  about 3 years ago

    Yup it is School today Happy Birthday

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    Phantomfire 01  about 3 years ago

    Wow! Dick Tracy shares a stellar 90th anniversary with The Shadow! Walter B. Gibson and Chester Gould should be toasting themselves up there!

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    TheFiddleBackSpider  about 3 years ago

    Happy birthday dick tracy!

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    Phantomfire 01  about 3 years ago

    By the way…Happy Birthday to Dick Tracy! Special thanks to the Curtis-Staton team for always kicking you know what!

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    Phantomfire 01  about 3 years ago

    Some fans would like to see further Tracy crossovers featuring The Shadow and Doc Savage. Will this happen? I am not certain…but if anyone could pull it off and do it well, it would be Curtis and Staton.

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    L Silverman  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday, Tracy! Shame on Sam and Lizz for not knowing!

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    jssheppard3  about 3 years ago

    And I’ve been following you for almost 70 of those years. Congratulations, Tracy!

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    sundogusa  about 3 years ago

    Looks good for 90!

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    Durak Premium Member about 3 years ago

    The first 90 years was great! I can’t wait to see what the next 90 bring us!

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    avenger09  about 3 years ago

    Gweedo’s the only one here who remembers Tracy’s debut. Moonshine and Raccoon road kill must add many years to your life!

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 3 years ago

    An order will be placed at a bakery for a cake. After this appearance, everybody will adjourn to B.O. Plenty’s. Big fun was had by all.

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 3 years ago

    I wonder if MCU personnel have a 401-K plan. Tracy’s is probably considerable.

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    IvanB.Cohen  about 3 years ago

    Sam left out that part where a song says, “may the bluebird of happiness fly up your nose”.

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    Jonathan K. and the Elusive Dream Girl  about 3 years ago

    I wonder how many newspapers still carry the strip. None in my area run it.

    A few years ago I emailed Tribune Content Agency asking this and they said they don’t divulge that sort of information.

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    Bill The Nuke  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday! You don’t look a day over chiseled.

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    ridenslide65  about 3 years ago

    Hard to believe Sam didn’t know.

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    RonnieAThompson Premium Member about 3 years ago

    Happy 90th Birthday! It’s been a long and winding road. I hope that we are all around for the 100th birthday celebration.

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    JPuzzleWhiz  about 3 years ago

    “WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, all you hip cats and cool swingers out there in that Terrific Town of Tracyville! I’m your HOWWWWWWWLingly hip BMBG deejay, JPuzzle The Whiz, here, and on this very special of days, there is just one tune I gotta spin for a very special lawman:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeOHAzjxLhk

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    Happy 90th Anniversary.Been following his adventures since 1972.

    No word from Pinkie The Stabber;who apparently still holds a grudge.

    No knock on Staton,but Lizz looks like she got up on the wrong side of the cell block this morning.

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    buckman-j  about 3 years ago

    Many more, (hopefully better than what we’re getting lately. Neil seems to really need a job

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    martinman8  about 3 years ago

    well happy birthday tracy

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    LAFITZGERALD  about 3 years ago

    Wow – happy birthday to you, Dick Tracy!

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    Another Take  about 3 years ago

    1-SAM: Watch this Doll. Tracy’s so old he’s forgotten how to shake hands…

    2-…Put ‘er there pal!

    DT: Oh, hi…Sam? Ummm, how’s this ritual go, start with the left…no…the right…let’s see…that’ll have to do. Carry on, Sam.

    Fans of this comic will be glad to know that Tracy has begun a regimen of those memory pills they advertise on TV that are made of squid guts. Expect to see changes soon. *

    Possibly in bathroom habits but not likely to be in memory improvement.
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    MooseBreathMints  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday! I have read Tracy for 70 years now!

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    Eric S   about 3 years ago

    so Dick Tracy himself is about 120

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    Darryl Heine  about 3 years ago

    Happy 90th., Dick Tracy!

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    198.23.5.11  about 3 years ago

    If you’re looking to slip Jerry Lawlor back into the strip,remember that one of the bestremembered villains,T.V. Wiggles;was a pro wrestler.

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    WDD  about 3 years ago

    90 years! And Dick (only his wife calls him that) is still able-bodied and on active duty.

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    ScottHolman  about 3 years ago

    You forgot your bosses’ birthday?

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    Ken in Ohio  about 3 years ago

    Today’s Ginger Meggs comic strip has a side note tribute to Dick Tracy.

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    BreathlessMahoney77  about 3 years ago

    Happy Birthday, Dick Tracy. Not surprising he’s a Libra — thoughtful & selfless.

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    Sisyphos  about 3 years ago

    Congratulations, Tracy, old man! Many more years of fighting crime left in you, I hope!

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    CRUUNER  about 3 years ago

    Take note that police code for “OK” is “10~4!!” Wonder if that was the case in 1931??

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    jonahhex1  about 3 years ago

    So that explains all the odd twist popping up lately.

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