Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 11, 2012

TOLD you this wouldnt end well for measles

Mr. Wallet looks sort of like someone else?

wait… WALT WALLET AND VIATMIN FLINTHEART?!?!?! Vista bill did yo know your sidekick is runing around with other comic strip characters? lol!

Enog gone.

Walt pays a visit, what’s up?

What a fascinating & unexpected last panel!

@David 53 – For a second. I did think that looked like Davey Mylar. Any connection??!

The team gives thanks to Jim Scancarelli for letting us use one of his characters from Gasoline Alley as a guest for the week.Thanks Jim!

So, i guess Measles went out with a whimper after all, seems kind of an anti-climax to such an intense story

An interesting side note to Gasoline Alley, it was the first cartoon that featured characters aging in real time (I believe that trend ended in the 1980s, cause some of the characters would be well over 100 years old now)

could it be it is Davey using an alias?

Gasoline Alley sidenote 2: The strip got it’s name because it was originally a comic about automobiles, which were a relatively new and mysterious machine, at the time King created the strip

Thus ends the sad tale of Measles, in a body bag, done in by his own flaws.……………………………………………………..And what an unexpected crossover in the last panel! Has Walt been the victim of a crime? Does he know Tracy personally?

Walt is looking good!Thanks Team Tracy!

I think they’ve frozen the kid’s ages too… the amazing thing is Daisy, the 80 year old dog! haha

The Grim Reaper taps Measles’ shoulder, whispering “Now it’s time. No patch exists to ease the pain, as you pay for your crime. Tracy and Sam stand o’er your corpse, but you are no longer there. Leaving neither friends nor loved ones, to notice, mourn or care. Come join Anna Enog, there’s always more room in hell. You will burn, left to twist and turn, to weep, beg, scream and yell. The pain from Tracy’s bullet, Gertie’s axe blow, Sparkle’s fire, soon shall be a fond memory; your situation’s now most dire. Don’t look back, it’s an ugly sight, your corpse sprawled in the shade; you chose your path, now face the wrath, and be very much afraid.”

Walt’s on board now? Makes me wonder, was it Tracy that put Rufus’ brother Magnus behind bars?

The new Team Tracy does every once great classical comic strip crossovers!

cool story and all, but where in the world Moonmaid???

I mean where does she fit in??

Ummm ?

Mr Scancarelli is a neighbor of mine. When he is not working on Gsaoline Alley, he can be found performing at the local Blue Grass festivals. Saw him just last week shopping in Walmart. He is as nice a gentlemen as the characters in his comic strip.

Nice to see Walt make an appearance in the Tracy strip. Pay back for when Tracy appeared in the GA strip to celebrate Tracy’s 75th anniversary.

Had to check the dates, but Tracy first appears in the GA strip on 9/5/2006, when Slim calls the police and Tracy answers on his 2-way wrist radio. He helps them to solve the murder of Chester Dloug (why does that name sound familiar??) with the help of BO Plenty (seen 9/22 and 9/23) before leaving on 10/4 to celebrate his 75th anniversary with Tess. Also a reference to the Big Boy case, Tracy’s first in the comics.

So long Measles. Welcome Walt! Tracy’s made cameos in Gasoline Alley so it’s nice to see Walt come visiting.

RIP, Measles. Your story was a lot of fun.And I’m curious where the Uncle Walt and Vitamin appearance is headed. No clue right now.

It doesn’t look much like Walt.

I never did trust “Uncle” Walt.

I enjoyed Gasoline Alley as a kid. It’s a kick seeing it intersect with another old favorite.

..Awesome strip..

Dick Moores took over Gasoline Alley completely in 1959, 10 years before King’s death (he started as the writer in 1956). and Walt Wallet is indeed well over 100 – which is why Gasoline Alley features his grandkids, great-grandkids, and never aging handymen…

GOOD to see today’s " Tip of the hat " to the GASOLINE ALLEY strip. It’s well justified !In many an early October Jim Scancarelli has had Tracy visiting their strip, and he’s always done Justice to the ART.-I take it that’s - Uncle Walt seen with Vitamin in panel 6 today ? You can never be SURE in this strip where they AGE the characters closer to ’ real time ’ ? It might well be the now much older - Skeezix ? As we see him here :

http://www.gocomics.com/gasolinealley/2012/09/23

Whichever ? It was an excellent choice !

It was a fitting end for Measles, done in by his own excesses. Loved the story. And seeing these cameos of characters from other comic strips is just as much fun as seeing the cameos and returns of the classic DT ones. Thank you, Team Tracy!

I have to applaud the Sunday colorist once again. The panel w/ the squadcar lights flashing against the pre-dawn sky in particular…really sets the mood.

Well, well, well. Comicom’s oldest vet pays a visit to Dick Tracy. How cool is that?

Tracy is going to investigate the disappearance of Slim’s ghostly friend and apprehend Boog’s bullies while he’s at it.

That Mr. Wallet looks kinda familiar!!!

Hello…… Gasoline Alley!

I have been reading both Tracy and Gasoline Alley for well over 50 years. GA has always had a special place in my heart. I grew up with Chipper and many of his experiences such as going to Viet Nam were mirrored in my life as they happened in the strip. Before he died, my father-in-law and I were once discussing this subject and he stated that he felt the same way about the strip and grew up with Skeezix.

A great finish to the story; that’s the way Measles whole life had been heading.Shane’s colors again fantastic; the false dawn in panel two and the flashing lights are great.And guest appearances by Walt Wallet(!) and Vitamin Flintheart? Wowzers!

Was hoping for a more dramatic ending for Measles.

Who’s next to guest-Nancy and Sluggo?? This should be nipped in bud.Stick to what works best. Whither Moon Maid??

I wonder which one of Chester Gould’s characters the new team is going to kill off next?

Fantastic job today by Team Tracy. Tracy’s closing commentary is one for the books. Nice job Mr. Curtis!

Thanks for the kind words, Tommygunner, yumpinyiminey, and Gweedo. Much appreciated. All kudos to Team Tracy for making the strip so very good that it inspires. I look forward to it every day, and not just because I might see…well, you know who she is. The Measles story was another winner. I love the first panel with Sunny Dell homestead in the background—the door kicked in, as the leaves fall on Measles’ shrouded corpse. Always a pleasure to see Tracy and Sam working together. Bravo!

I tend to agree that this was a fitting way to end Measles’ story. Sad ending to a wasted life.

Happy Veterans Day to all my fellow Veterans!!!!

“I never underestimate a desperate addict, Sam.”

“Yep. Too bad,” said Sam, taking one last long drag on a cigarette. He pitched the empty filter, and reached for another one, lighting it expertly with is pocket lighter. He inhaled the potent smoke of the new cigarette, and blew it out his nose. “What makes people take that stuff, anyway? Don’t they know it can kill them?”

Good afternoon all…

Remember Veterans Day

I just checked out those strips, in 2006, Walt is 106, so, apparently, he’s now 112, not yet in the Guiness books but, seeing how he was able to survive a serious gurney accident, without a scratch, at 106, he just might make it to 120 :p

When will we see Moon Maid again? Inquiring minds want to know!

I also agree.

I think the BEST ending would have been for Measles to “get the draw” on DT and just as he was about to pull the trigger, he suffers a coronary and dies (Then it works for everyone) ;)

@mikeyj: The characters in “Gasoline Alley” do supposedly still age in real time, but some of them seem to do so more accurately than others—this week’s story, for example, features eight-year-old Boog Skinner (son of Rover, grandson of Clovia, great-grandson of Skeezix and great-great-grandson of Walt) and he’s clearly the age he should be. But we’ve occasionally seen Gus and Kathleen, the twin children of Chipper, and they seem to be stuck at about age 10, even though they were born in 1992.And, of course, we have Walt—the last surviving original cast member in the strip, born in 1898 (confirmed at least twice in the strip) and somehow still around at age 114. His wife, Phyllis, who couldn’t have been more than a couple years younger, passed back in 2004. All his old friends (Doc, Avery, Bill) are long gone, but Walt just keeps on ticking even as Skeezix (who is a remarkably vital and energetic 91-year-old himself) has another birthday each year…Fun fact—Vitamin Flintheart was said to be fifty when he first appeared in “Dick Tracy,” which would make him several years older than Walt!

Had to check the dates, but thestory begins on 9/1/2006 with the theft of Slim’s truck.

Tracy first appears in the GA strip on 9/5/2006, when Slim calls the police and Tracy answers on his 2-way wrist radio.

He helps them to solve the murder of Chester Dloug (why does that name sound familiar??) with the help of BO Plenty (seen 9/22 and 9/23) before leaving on 10/4 to celebrate his 75th anniversary with Tess.

The story line wraps up at the end of that week.

I don’t quite understand the gripes of those who wanted to see Measles end in “a blaze of glory” or some other spectacular way. A desperate addict dying from his addiction? Oh, my, how unrealistic! (Tongue clamped firmly in cheek!!)

The Grim Reaper taps Measles’ shoulder, whispering “Now it’s time.

No patch exists to ease the pain, as you pay for your crime.

Tracy and Sam stand o’er your corpse, but you are no longer there.

Leaving neither friends nor loved ones, to notice, mourn or care.

Come join Anna Enog, there’s always more room in hell.

You will burn, left to twist and turn, to weep, beg, scream and yell.

The pain from Tracy’s bullet, Gertie’s axe blow, Sparkle’s fire

Soon shall be a fond memory; your situation’s now most dire.

Don’t look back, it’s an ugly sight, your corpse sprawled in the shade

You chose your path, now face the wrath, and be very much afraid.”