Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 23, 2024

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    firestrike1  16 days ago

    a veritable Tracy Travelogue…

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    firestrike1  16 days ago

    Ray should be able to identify panels two and three…

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    firestrike1  16 days ago

    looks like the Doctor’s TARDIS in panel one…

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    Neil Wick  16 days ago

    Good morning™, guys!

    I think that the “mad colorist” has done a good job of enhancing the art in the last two panels. It gets across the idea of neglect and deterioration.

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    davemunter  16 days ago

    Sounds like San Francisco

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    SHAKEDOWNCITY  16 days ago

    The “death” of a nation.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  16 days ago

    Good morning™, Run Down Towns !

    Does face lifting a run down district deter bad people hanging there ?  This run down theater could be where story stuff starts ?

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    GoComicsGo!  16 days ago

    Abner?

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    Boise Ed Premium Member 16 days ago

    So this takes place in Gotham City?

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    Ashmael  16 days ago

    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz…

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    avenger09  16 days ago

    This is almost as boring as the Jim Douglas bio I just read!

    I could use a jug of Gweedo’s moonshine right now!

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    BreathlessMahoney77  16 days ago

    Welcome to another exciting episode of “Dick Tracy: Building Code Inspector!” Tonite: Tracy takes on archenemy Rooftop Jones & The Slumlords Mob!

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    flashdrive1988  16 days ago

    Where is this going? … Phantom of the Opera?

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    Uncle Kenny  16 days ago

    The Phaaaaaaaaaantom of the Opera is there, inside your mind!

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    jrankin1959  16 days ago

    When they house criminals, that’s when I go to work… I wear a yellow coat.

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    Sporteric11   16 days ago

    Looks like Baltimore!!! And it’s even worse today !!!

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    iggyman  16 days ago

    Time for urban renewal! Sad but in most cases they tear down beauty and replace it with the mundane !

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    BigDaveGlass  16 days ago

    Looks like “The Shades” on a bad day. Any walls with burnt on silhouettes?

    ( A reference to a scene in Terry Pratchett’s Book “Guards! Guards!” )

    (First of his I ever read. Brilliant).

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    Gent  16 days ago

    Building a crumbling story eh.

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    Tradewinds309  15 days ago

    It looks like Vitamin Flintheart’s theater needs a little TLC.

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    crobinson019  15 days ago

    Looks like the sort of place Abner would hang out

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    LawrenceS  15 days ago

    Day Three: Still with no logic holes. Beautiful old building in Albany NY falling to pieces. It was put on list of historic architecture years ago, and can’t be renovated in any way that would detract from original architectural details. But no one can afford to re-create the original architectural details & it is useless unless it is adapted for some other use. Meanwhile, an old vaudeville theater got renovated prior to the rush to declare old buildings examples of historic architecture and is still used. Some attempts at preservation speed decay.

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    h.v.greenman  15 days ago

    Enough with the guided tour. Let’s have a storyline we can gripe about already.

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    Mongo  15 days ago

    Is Abner or his equally eerie sister about to appear for Halloween?

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    orbenjawell Premium Member 15 days ago

    …and the travelogue continues, b’gosh!!

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    Wizard of Ahz-no relation  15 days ago

    I don’t know if this needs the score from cats or phantom of the opersa

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    Pequod  15 days ago

    Many of the grand old theatres have been renovated in recent years: Chicago Theatre (opened 1921, restored 1986), Auditorium Theatre (opened 1889, restored 1967), Oriental Theatre [renamed Nederlander in 2018] (opened 1926, restored 1998), and the Cadillac Palace Theatre, (opened 1926, restored 1999). Alas, the Uptown Theatre remains shuttered (opened 1925, closed 1981, restoration halted due to covid in 2021).

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    Ignatz Premium Member 15 days ago

    In NYC, the United Palace is one of the old incredibly gorgeous theaters. It was Reverend Ike’s old church. Can’t stand the man, but one good thing he did was say, “Don’t tear that down, I want it for my church.” Well, he’s dead, and the theater is a theater again. I saw “When Harry Met Sally” there recently, followed up by a live interview with Billy Crystal.

    There’s also the Leow’s in Jersey City. Gorgeous. It’s run by a non-profit, so it’s CHEAP. Movies are $7, popcorn is $5. They have an old Wurlitzer organ that rises from the floor, with somebody playing it during silent movie revivals. Currently closed for renovation, it will be back next year.

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    Ashmael  15 days ago

    Wasn’t a ruined theater a temporary refuge for Flattop JR?

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    Delicate Girl  15 days ago

    And the stage is set, if you will…

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    That Wichita Guy!!  15 days ago

    Shooting years into the future. Enter Lil’ Abner Cadaver! Heavens to Harvey!

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    WilliamVollmer  15 days ago

    I guess that sad commentary is true. That there are a few “movie palaces” that have fallen from their glory, to the dustbin of history.

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    Another Take  15 days ago

    Eric should stick to waxing his mustache instead of waxing nostalgic about whatever he’s on about here…

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member 15 days ago

    The story line nightmarish vistas…………

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    MOVIE QUOTE

    WE’RE THE HOUSE DETECTIVES

    AND WE’RE PUZZLED WITH

    THE FACT THAT NO ONE STOPS HERE

    UNLESS THEIR NAME IS SMITH !

    “Honeymoon Hotel”—-FOOTLIGHT PARADE—1933

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    JCunnngham Premium Member 15 days ago

    I’m patiently waiting for the rendering of socialites and streetwalkers…

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    David Rickard Premium Member 15 days ago

    From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

    Dick Tracy has spent a lot of this week getting into the architectural history of Neo-Chicago and the state of local landmarked buildings. On the surface, this sounds like the sort of thing that I personally would be into, but it’s actually left me pretty cold. Maybe I’d feel differently if it were about public transit or something, but for now, I say: let’s wrap it up and bring on the officer-involved shootings!

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    My immediate thought was Flattop Jr. hiding in the abandoned theatre—with a Wondercar and millions of rats.Sic the little snot,ya rats.

    The “teen genius” slowly descended into insanity—“Swarms of the black demons…waiting for me to fall asleep…drop my guard…relax…”

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    Another Take  15 days ago

    1-: _Sam, full of pastrami, lies his head on the deli counter and dreams of the tenement where his family was forced to live as poor immigrants from Lithuania…

    2-: …Until that magic day when his huge hootered sister became the star of the Burlesque House Theater!

    3-: Alas, the BHT’s fall into disrepair mirrored Sam’s sister’s sagging “popularity”. It was at that very moment that Sam caught the attention of a young beat cop destined for greatness…

    DT: WAKE UP, SAM! HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW YOU WERE AT YOU’RE FAVORITE DELI ALL THIS TIME?!? LOST??? YOU LOST YOUR MIND IS THE ONLY “LOST” YOU WERE. C’mon. Something odd is about to happen and we need to get ready for it. SAM: Oh yeah? What?

    DT: I dunno. Something. Probably. Maybe. Maybe not… Probably not…

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    I’ve occasionally joked and/or wondered if Diet Smith should be so darned lively after having a heart transplant.I just read that the great baseball star Rod Carew had a heart transplant in December 2016 and he’s doing fine. So I guess Diet gets a pass.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    Best PERRY MASON TV title I’ve heard yet—“The Case of The Witless Witness”

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    jim_pem  15 days ago

    Fire is speculating a return of Fata and Rikki.

    Maybe we have a Vitamin arc where he’s plagued by a new baddie: The Fandom of of the Opera. Guaranteed to make us all cringe.

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    overtop  15 days ago

    Costello seems to like jerking the audience around. No comments on this travelogue would be most appropriate. Maybe he’d decide to start a story. On the other hand, once he starts, he never knows when to stop.

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    [Unnamed Reader - bf182b]  15 days ago

    It would seem that Tracy’s next opponent is the Phantom of the Opera.

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    [Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce]  15 days ago

    That Nitrate brother/sister team also has a habit of hiding out in abandoned theatres

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    tsull2121  15 days ago

    Up next, the incredibly ornate outhouse of B.O. Plenty

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    mistercatworks  15 days ago

    Perhaps “palaces of dreams”?

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    smartman  15 days ago

    Louisville lost one of their very old Catholic cathedrals last week or two due to homeless people setting up camp there after the church had moved out and sold to an out-of-state owner who was likely hoping for that to happen so they’d get free or discounted demolition as they didn’t have anyone there checking for homeless or even boarding up access points leaving that to the city.

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