Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 05, 2025

what a mop of hair on Dick today…

Simply because he went "cod"aver fishing.

Solid citizens opposed to liquid or gaseous citizens?

Good morning™, Mounting Mysteries !

All questions do is breed more questions. We need ANSWERS !  Tracy’s got some mighty top heavy hair there.

Sam is frowning mightily in Panel 3 after witnessing Tracy use a disposable cup to drink a tiny bit of water. “Couldn’t he bring in a permanent cup like I do? It’s clear who cares about the turtles and stuff.”

We have two John Does the one they try to snatch and the apparently “solid” one they found in the park. What’s the connection?

Good morning™, everyone!

Where do you suppose they picked up a “fake” victim with unidentifiable fingerprints?

Tracy threw the cup in the proper container, well done!

“If he’s a solid citizen, though… how come no one’s claimed him?”

He doesn’t have anyone to claim him?

Anyone who could claim him doesn’t yet realize something’s happen to him?

Plenty of reasonable answers to your question, Mr. Tracy.

Check missing persons, maybe he’s not from tracyville

Okay, no fingerprints on file for the stiff. However if they go looking through the missing persons reports a lot of the people there will have fingerprints on file – from time in the service, or many jobs require them – and I imagine there are security checks for anyone who is a financial officer for a big company – and the fingerprints on file for the missing person can’t match the those on the body. (Not sure how many times I’ve been fingerprinted, sometimes for jobs where I’ve gone, “Why the heck do they care?”)

They are now IDing unknown victims from cold cases decades old by getting the DNA, going on ancestry sites, and finding relatives based on the DNA. Let’s see if Tracyville is in the 21st century.

That’s a pretty small…wait! Is that a SHOT GLASS?! Has Sippin’ Sam finally driven Tracy to DRINK! Will he proceed to future crime scenes doing the dreaded ‘wibbly-wobbly’?! Will scandalized mothers steer their impressionable children well away from Our Hero??? Will Tracy break off if a heated gun battle to chase pink pachyderms?!?!

OH, say it isn’t SOOOOO!!!!

Tracy must have been on a bender last night. He looks a bit hungover in P1 leaning on the water cooler with a wrinkled shirt and unkempt hair.

Still, the variety of poses and POV angles makes these Talking Head sessions more tolerable and much less static. Once again Charles is the hero who is saving the day.

solid citizen doesn’t wash. I’ve never been arrested but my prints are in the system, professional licenses, CCP all that legal stuff.

MOVIE QUOTE

“Sir,this woman is my wife. You should be ashamed!”

“If this woman is your wife,Sir,then YOU should be ashamed!”

Groucho Marx—A NIGHT IN CASABLANCA—1946

Dick is getting drunk on flouridated water

A lot of people have never been fingerprinted. Maybe if you were in the military, got a handgun carry permit, or been arrested would you have been fingerprinted.

maybe he wasn’t popular… :\

If the dead man’s face is still recognizable, next step is to run it in t he newspapers

Great art work depicting the office talk and movement,,,,,,,,,

From today’s Comics Curmudgeon:

“You telling me this guy died poor or alone, or maybe under strange circumstances so his family doesn’t know he’s dead and can’t claim him? Sounds like a real piece of human garbage to me. Shame he’s dead so I can’t kill him. I take consolation in the fact that I can still shoot him.”

IAFIS

Hey, Sam. How do you pronounce that? Ee-ah-fis? Eye-a-fis? IntAutoFingIdSys?

1- SAM: Moonlighting I can understand but delivering heavy bubbler refills is a tough gig for an old guy, isn’t it?

2- DT: Keeps me fit. Plus I get to drink all I want so – perks! glug glug

3- DT: I think I can get you on as a bottle cleaner if you want. You get to drink the dregs left in the bottle so – perk? SAM: Nah. If I want water, I’ll just drink a Coors – same thing.

DT: True. I guess they made “Near-Beer” during prohibition and just kept on with that recipe. SAM: Yeah – Coors sux! DT: BIG TIME!

SAM: I think Coors Light IS water.

A solid citizen with no relatives? Unthinkable.

Of course he is a solid citizen, the corpse has been in the morgue cooler so long it’t frozen solid.

Any tattooes?

Better yet, if he’s not involved in any criminal activity, why did someone find it necessary to steal his body before he could be identified???