Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 28, 2014

Alas, Mary, if you refer to the actor playing Vitami, I’m afraid he’s no more available!

Love the silhouettes on last panel!

Nice catch on Mary’s part……too bad that will be that actor’s curtain call.

Mary is on the job! Did she actually recognize the it wasn’t really Vitamin in the movie?

Like, why didn’t she inform Vitamin himself of this actor, duhhhh?

So happy to see MARY PERKINS back. I was wondering if we had already seen the last of her. I hope she remains through out this entire story. Love the artwork in today’s strip! NICE JOB!

Mary, Lois Lane would be proud !

-Lois Lane would want her to play her in the next movie !

Good morning everyone…

…meanwhile, Lena enjoys her dinner!

yes

yes

Reminds me of the time I watched hyena’s eating their lunch at the zoo. Eccch. If Lena gets to chomp on Mr. Summer Stock, it’s going to be very, very messy.

Presumably Mary Perkins (smarter than she lets on, at least to Vitamin) has recognized Miles Mycroft in the rôle of Vitamin in the rôle of cowering Video Ranger. But what she does not, indeed, cannot, yet know is that MIles is even now being processed into hyena chow by the more wily-than-he-looks Silver Nitrate and his sister-accomplice, Sprocket Nitrate. Can Dick Tracy save the day for Vitamin Flintheart, the vain old thespian?Well, we all know the answer to that one….

Hail Mary, you know what evil lurks in the Hearts of Men

Hmmm… seems i was wrong about mary. she looks familiar tho… “there’s something about mary…” lol :)

Love the way Mary has taken center stage in the story.

I wonder if Mary knows Popeye.

There’s no doubt Mary is the brightest light on the tree. Good morning, all. The MCU needs to keep her phone number!

Mary moved on from Summer Stock to Broadway, and is currently in rehearsals at the Patterson Playhouse. Miles moved on from Summer Stock and is currently in the belly of the beast.

For the most part, I have enjoyed the various crossovers that Team Tracy has slipped into this strip. This is the first time that a crossover character has figured so directly into the story. All of the others were little cameos, with Tracy getting one bit of information from them. This story with Mary is very cool.I did read somewhere that Team Tracy was planning to use Orphan Annie in a more elaborate way at some future point, but I don’t know if that was hopeful speculation on the part of a fan, or an actual promise from Mike. That would be very interesting, since Chester Gould and Harold Gray were close friends.

Good catch, Mary! If you ever decide to get out of acting, you might have a future in the MCU!

Good looking out for Vitamin, Mary. He’s too old and arrogant to recognize he’s about to be scammed!

That’s pretty cool!

Noel Neill first played Lois Lane in the 1948 serial Superman opposite Kirk Alyn as Superman. She wore her hair longer in the serial and had elaborate hats in the serial, much like the character did in the comics. Her hair was shorter and heavily permed in the TV series, and the character in the comics followed that hair style (and kept it well into the 1960s). Neill appeared in a cameo in the Superman movie with Christopher Reeve as the mother of little girl Lois Lane in the scene on the train. Lois’s father was played by Kirk Alyn.

Sorry everyone about the multiple posts earlier. I don’t know how that happened.

Yeah, I do appreciate the concern. And why did SDM all of a sudden vanish with all his posts?

Gotta love the mutual hate and Mutual admiration socetys

Nice to have you back, avenger09!

I wonder if they got permission to butcher Mary Perkins.