Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 26, 2024

does Dick sense that there may be a connection between Fata and Baxter, but unsure as to what it may be?…

Good morning™, everyone!

Tracy means to question this "regular filler inner,* I guess, but Baxter won’t be giving out much information.

Good morning™, yellow alerts !

Tracy smells something and it aint firefight’s farts. Sam has good face time in today’s.

Slow news day if that’s front page worthy.

Gee if Fatty is such a maaaster of disguising then why she no goes in disguise when she go to kill Mrs. Tracy? And down the magicianess wents into tha giant plot hole!

Fata must have had a contract for a given number of shows at the Patterson Playhouse. My question is will those who bought tickets for her show be willing to settle for this stand-in?

Had Doctor Dolittle been brought in, he might have gotten some information from the elephant. He sang “Talk To The Animals”.

Why just feature one sequence of Tracy going to the {Patterson Playhouse to interview a suspicious magician when you can feature it twice?

Did Adonis ever croak? It Tess still working from home? Enquiring minds want to know…

Well done strip today!

Sunday—the BIG reveal—Fata is really Abner Kadaver!

“Sam, see if there were any unsolved murders by poison around the time of Baxter’s previous fill-ins for Fata.”

“The Friends of Sam Catchem” are pleased today .

1-SAM: HEY DICK – what’s this word mean? A_MOZ_ING…

2-DT: It’s pronounced A-MAZ-ING and you don’t need to know what it means as it will never be applied to you. Not in a good way. SAM: I’m glad. My brain can’t handle any more info…

3-DT: Why are you trying to read the online newspaper anyway? SAM: They stopped delivering it after I stopped paying for it so I’m trying to figure out how I can use the online version to line my bird’s cage. DT: Just use your old pastrami wrappers.

SAM: YES! I’ve got hundreds of them!!! I KNEW THEY’D COME IN HANDY SOME DAY.

DT: Amazing…

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“You see, I wanted to be a detective,too. It only took brains, courage, and a gun. And I had the gun”.

Bob Hope—MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE—1947

Mike is back at the writing helm. It’s apparent because Lizz and Lee are not featured in the story. It could just as easily have been one of them who researched today’s new evidence. First draft writing.

And once again Tracy heads off as a lone wolf. Why is he not taking another officer with him?

Shelly has given us a clue….note the left eye is left partially unshaded, as if Tracysenses something fishy……….

Loved panel 2—-not only well drawn but it shows t he friendship between these two fellows. And after 90 years, I trust Tracy’s instincts.

Great artwork today, Dick and Sam are looking good!

A rat has been smelled …

Me thinks I smell a rat, says Tracy.

After 78 years I STILL don’t believe Itchy was dumb enough to leave the kewpie doll in the car