Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 10, 2025

That’s one way to take care of the dental match problem.

“Molar” eclipse.

as usual, Dick on his-ass…

Good morning™, everyone!

Did they think that nobody would notice the fresh dental work? Or was that why they wanted to take the body away before an autopsy could be performed?

I’m liking the police procedural approach of the latest strips.

Good morning™, Dentition Defilers !

The Sarge should be glad he went into the next world with a magazine smile instead of those old worn down mush mashers. Middle panel doc and setting look great and I wont complain about the coloring either. Both have Great Hands and the phones look right too.

Like !

Will the teeth tell the tale?

some oral work was performed on the corpse…

was the corpse a Grateful Dead fan at one time?…

Dead Head?..

And now we will see what that dropped dental appointment card will bring. My guess is the name of the dentist who did all that work and thus the name of the John Doe in the morgue.

Can I do it? Can I do it? Pleeeez?

Bad hygiene by the coroner(?) using the mobile while washing hands.

I am liking the no handle taps (facet) Just stick your hand under, and it automatically runs water. Very hygienic.

Dentaled to death!

In Tracyville, unlike other cities, homicide is not part of an MCU. The MCU is supposed to be hunting for the (likely nit-wit college students) body snatchers. But Tracy is bored sitting around drinking coffee and decided to poach in homicide territory? Will Detective Anne Onomous be annoyed he’s butting in or flattered that Tracy has deigned to step in?

Certainly, he would need to wash both hands. How does he do that without getting his phone all wet?

Ah, the well known “one-handed hand washing” technique. Well favored by lab workers with a death wish. I see he’s also mastered the cell-phone utilization mode of hand washing as well. Now that’s efficiency in action. Getting two things done badly at once.

Only Eric, would think it normal for the coroner to be washing one hand while talking on the phone.

EEK! Seditious Sam must have hit Tracy over the head just before today’s strip started. Good thing Tracy, like a good press man (printer, not a snoopy reporter — we’re saving that for the Kolchak crossover) begins, promising a year of epic adventure. Punctuated at intervals by rousing songs winsomely warbled by the fabled likes of Shatner and Nimoy. many a flagon of heated mead, and horrendous tavern tabs..

Look for Splinters, the feisty forensic Ent to make a really cameo ion next Wednesday, when a cold snap hits ton ad the heater goes on the blink, Y

PARENTS: You might want to send your kids to NANCY and ALLEY OOP for that day.

“Someone stuck some plastic of those hillbilly Bubba Teeth in his mouth. Makes identification totally impossible.”

“Er, have you tried taking them out?”

“Wait a…WHOA!!! I-it’s ELVIS!!!!!”

Didnt they say that the body was decomposed?

Tracy needs a lice check

Loving Tracy’s look in p. 3. Debonair!

…so the business card left behind by the Dimmer Twins yesterday will play into this.

weird… :\

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“Who ever heard of a talking horse?”

FRANCIS/Chill Wills—-FRANCIS GOES TO THE RACES—1951

The MAD CAVE series on Dick—-well,they put out a DICK TRACY VALENTINE’S DAY Special—-inflated price of $6.99 but it’s a good mystery story about murder on a Poverty Row movie set. Sadly, Warren Beatty is not the victim.

Love it when Tracy’s eyes light up at the mention of the dental work.

We must remember that in his last years,Gould was fond of portraying the bad guys as total idiots(NON COMPIS MENTS!)

It started with Uncle Punky(1963)—-and Matty Square wasn’t all that bright either

1- DT: Hello Doc? The Atomic Strength Krab Killer you prescribed isn’t working. The little devils are even in my head hair now!

2- DOC: Ugh. You so dirty! Just talking to you on the phone makes me have to wash my hands…

3- : …My final advice to you is to shave it all off and don’t come here again. Tell your wife and anyone you “been with” the same. AND do your dog a favor and just put him down!