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1. over 4 years ago on Dick Tracy

   With the exception of the center part, the picture of Professor Stokes looks a lot like H. P. Lovecraft. However, there is a Dax Stokes who is “…an academic librarian and professor with an interest in Dracula; the folklore vampire; and vampires in popular culture. He frequently lectures on these topics in the North Texas area, where he lives with his wife and three children.” He has a podcast “The Vampire Historian.”

2. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Hmmm… The dire wolf is an extinct Pleistocene predecessor to modern wolves, so a dire chicken would have a similar relationship to modern chickens. Mebbe that’s what Kerwyn is, a dire chicken!

3. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   At least Big Margie didn’t take Little Marge down to the river to tell her about the rabbits one last time.

4. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Cue “Yakety Sax.”

5. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Svengoolie has already made an appearance, might as well throw the chickens!

6. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Mebbe Catchem is a “typically” Jewish name? Perhaps a shortening of Katzenberg by way of Ellis Island transcription?

7. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   Or the Black Russians!

8. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   7 cm = 3” < 1 cm = 4”?!

   SI is way more complicated than I remember it! Mebbe that’s for measuring the depth of snow?

9. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

   “Investigating anti-Semitic bullying”… in a way, the current story arc is a tribute to Constable Woodall.

10. almost 8 years ago on Dick Tracy

    The new coffin was revealed in an incomplete state at the 2012 Nightmare on Chicago Street in Elgin, IL. The completed new coffin was debuted on 7 September 2013. The old model was retired and donated to the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. (https://youtu.be/RIYuAsfaSFA)

    The face on the new coffin is Body Sorrell, a skeletalized version of Sven with the voice and personality of Buddy Sorrell.