Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 24, 2025

in other words, Dick and Anne are both clueless…

“So it’s pretty obvious, squirrels did it.”

Good morning™, everyone!

Between midnight and 6 a.m.?

Homicide detective Bruce Jenner is baffled!

Murderer regrets crime, needs shoes for “Scottish Brogues”.

So who’s the handsome partner?

Good morning™, Space Filling Chit Chatters !

I swore the figure on the left in P.3. was a man but then recognizing Tracy’s big beefy build, realize it is just our unidentified dead people investigator. Can’t wait for the callouts on how better these preh-shee-ous-s-s-s- panels could have been spent. LOL !

Maybe the robbery was just a cover up to throw the investigation to the wrong conclusion!

My theory is the victim was poisoned, dropped dead in park, homeless found body robbed jewerly, wallet, and shoes andd left body to be found later.

Decomposed, not composed..

Maybe it is Joe Jackson.

Definitely a physcopath. composed, and shoeless? All classic signs. shoes = memento, if it was female I’d bet too there is some sort of attack of a se*ual nature.

Didnt they say the other day that the body was DECOMPOSED?

It seems we are in for 6 weeks of wondering where the corpse left his shoes, by which time the composed body, will be starting to decompose

These homicide cops are a bunch of loafers!

Barefoot in the Park!

Better work quickly before you have a de-composed body.

it would imply they wanted the body to be found, but the lack of identifying kit implies they don’t want the police to find out who he is quickly. it is conflicting messages

So nameless guy is killed and left in park, then the same crew that killed nameless and left him in the park suddenly decide that they would rather the cops never found him and try to snatch the body out of the morgue, but(and shades of Watergate-the original)they tape the latch so the door won’t shut and the[nameless]security guy sees it and calls it in. body snatchers are surprised and drop the body. My question is, why. Why leave nameless body in park? Why decide to snatch body from morgue?

Shoeless Joe Jackson………ah poop, SOMEONE was eventually going to say it…….

MOVIE QUOTE

“What are you going to do with three bedrooms?”

Frank Sinatra to Groucho Marx—-DOUBLE DYNAMITE—1951

‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson????????

I get it. It was an accidental cameo-related killing.

PARTY ONE: Now, what I nod my head, Stanley, You HIT it. Do you understand it Now?

PARTY TWO: I certainly do.

PARTY ONE: Fine. Well, what are you waiting for? Hit it.

1- DT: Your chin. lack of lipstick and apparel options suggest someone who might be transitioning…

2- : …and THAT could get our Federal Funding suspended and I really need a new revolver, cuffs, taser and nightstick since my old lot got stolen from the front seat of my squad car. Oh. And a new squad car too.

LT HOMICIDE: I’M NOT TRANSITIONING! Not all females can be your 1950’s ideal of dress-wearing, home cooking mothers of 2 mischievous boys! DT: Mom was. LT HOMICIDE: I’ve had it with you neanderthals. Why, at the crime scene…

3- : …Detective Macho thrust his pelvis at the dead body and made “grab my sack” hand motions at it. FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER! DT: Maybe he thought the guy had been cruising the park for sex and that that would revive him. OR he thought it was funny.

…Which of course – IT WAS! HAR HAR! I gotta get that guy in the MCU!!!

Nice “shadow art” in Panel 2.

I’d advertise for somebody to step forward and pay for the funeral, or the body will go to Potter’s Field.See if anybody comes forward with an ID

What kind of crime do we have here? Somebody taken off the planet for his shoes? And the morgue the deceased would have been shoeless. One heck of a mystery, now where it lead?

This is looking like a good one !

If you’ve got a six hour window for the death, between midnight and 6:00 a.m. when the body was found, a good coroner could narrow the time of death down way more precisely based on the core temperature of the body at the time of discovery and the nighttime temperature.

Of course the coroner has already been depicted as wildly incompetent – unable or unwilling to do her own job and angrily demanding the MCU work what isn’t their job.

Kinda gross but shutterstock has an entire category of shoeless dead bodies.