Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 23, 2013

All the readers that suffer from capnophobia should feel relieved that Sam isn’t smoking in today’s strip.

Good morning everyone…

Mornin’ VistaBill, Stagger Lee, and all you latecomers.

I remember that my grandparents house had a slot in the medicine cabinet to drop the used razor blades down..

Good Morning VB and everyone. Is it just me or is Lizz too cute to draw. I’d like to see Mj’s rendering.

This is just a bit too Batmanish, really

The medicine cabinet was built into the wall, so the blades just dropped down inside the wall. After my grandparents were gone, we remodeled the house and there was quite a pile of them in the bottom of the wall.

Time Space Continuom problems again Cap’n Kirk: If these events have been going on for a couple weeks now, and comic books are the objective of the Jumbler, then how did the Jumbler know about the comic books prior to the owner of Old Finlay’s Pharmacy?

I agree with Mikeyj, this is just too Batman-ish.

If this story is just a bridge until we get to the Moon Maid, I’m ready to take the ferry!

Way, way back, when I was a little tyke and the US was still in post-war (WW II) mode, there was a neighborhood candy/ice cream/comic book store that I would dash over to if I had a dime, hoping to buy the latest monthly issue of my favorite comic book (whatever that might be at any given moment). I lusted after the unsold ones I couldn’t afford; don’t know if they were returned to the publisher or (more likely) scrapped (which would be why I found the process so frustrating).We shall soon see if the MCU gets to Old Finley’s in time to foil the Jumbler, or if he escapes them with the comic booty (perhaps using his tear gas)….

Here I thought comics were “stripped” and the unsold covers returned—like Paperbacks. (If you find a used paperback without a cover it was likely a return, and not to be sold as the author and publishers didn’t get their royalties.)

As to Jumbler knowing about it early, Newspapers are printed well after the fact. So Jumbler may know a Huggy Bear type “Word on the street is…” or have an insider at the paper as a friend.

But if its on Acres Circle…isn’t that close to Sunny Acres?

Good to see Lizz getting more facetime, hope they keep her involved in this storyline

“To the batcave Robin! Let’s see if we can figure out what evil plot the Riddler has up his sleeve this time”!

Good morning, all!

I’m still waiting for Moon Maid. But I’d avoid too pernickety comparisons to Goud’s Dick Tracy. Another time, another Authors, and another readership.And anyway Batman and Dick Tracy hav a lo in common. Both feature a crime fighter who began his career after witnessing a crime that involved loved ones. Both Batman and Dick Tracy have had a young assistant (Robin/ Batman team is said to have been modeled on Dick Tracy/junior team) Both feature a point-mosed villain (Bates and Penguin) and a two-faced villain (Two Face and Haf-And Haf) And both use gadgets and are skilled in forensic and laboratory tecniques of investigation. And what about late Gouldian criminals like Scorpio and Brain or the ainted Lady’?

Forget the slot for razor blades! When I first moved into my current apartment (10-12 years ago?), it still had a dumbwaiter (yeah, the building is that old, and it was non-working at the time). They since got rid of the dumbwaiter to upgrade the electrical connections. A small price to pay (at least there’s still the built-in ironing board in the kitchen!)

No offense to any dumb waiters out there (sorry, couldn’t resist). :)

Hard to make out all the words*******************I couldn’t make them out; could you share what they say?

Unfortunately, when I resized my Lizz pic, I made it too small again, and, I forgot to save the original…. I did however, save the line art for her face, so you can see the detail that doesn’t really show in the whole pic….

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My great-grandmother’s house was “insulated” (if indeed that’s the correct term) with old newspapers. When it was eventually torn down, we found perfectly preserved, if a bit crumpled, newspapers from a particular year in the 1930’s. I don’t remember which year, but I remember I was fascinated by the Sunday comic pages that were in the walls. My dad halted the demolition so we could retrieve as many of the old papers as possible. This was in the 1970’s, and I don’t recall what happened to the papers.

You got it, Gweedo!

Another detail that is unfortunately hard to see is the 3 shots that just missed hitting Lizz… two in the brick wall and the broken window pane of the apartment

Seems like mold and mildew could have become an issue after a while…..