Bad planning…even if Fred Jr was expecting the receipt machine to fail, there was still the logbook. So as in the Libris case, the logbook puts the murderer at the scene of the crime.
So the “neck guy” from the November 5 strip is now the target of the chief’s ire. Another candidate fro Eric’s list of nameless background characters! (Other possible names for the list: the Lieutenant from Homicide, introduced during the LIbris case, sand Tracy’s inspector friend from the Two Foxes construction site, who was in the November 17-19 strips.)
Okay, I’m now going with Fred Jr being the identity of Sprengstoff’s killer, who definitely had his hands around Sprengy’s neck. Now, is he also the person in the clock tower on October 27? And does Fred Sr. know anything about all this?
During the DT 2021 time drone storyline, it was revealed that one such drone appeared in 1943 and recorded Flattop at a train station. So I figure that a Nazi spy was also there and reported the otherwise-unseen drone to his superiors in Berlin. This led to a top-secret German project whose personnel all disappeared in April 1945. This organization has not been heard from again, until now…
But…Superman didn’t say it in the 2025 movie trailer :)