Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 06, 2014

Pretty clever of Vitamin . . .

So at least one victim wasn’t too ashamed to admit it. But Vitamin still should have let Tracy know earlier.

Good morning everyone…

Why in the world of rhubarb didn’t Vitamin discuss this with his sidekick Vista Bill? That’s what friends are for!

I NAILED IT YESTERDAY!

Silver & Sprocket are now headed for the cutting room floor!

Good morning, all!Hooray for ol’ Vitamin!

Vitamin is much trickier than first appears! So, Silver had no reference about how the scene should look at all except Vitamin’s description! You will note that Vitamin went to Dick in the first place with the “news” that the lost footage had been found, while knowing all along that the footage had to be fake.

Definitely more astute than usual on Vitamin’s part

Well played Mr. Flintheart…..well played.

@RightwingmoronFrom yesterday: “It’s great the way Stanton and Curtis brought the old ham back after many years absence.”Great comment. My only complaint (and the same thing applied to some “Otto ‘Fearless Leader’ Baron” poster from the past), is that DT’s renowned artist is a gentleman by the name of “STATON”, not Stanton.Thank You very much!

It is too bad that Vitamin did not let Tracey in on the scam sooner…they might have prevented the untimely death of Miles. He deserved punishment but I think a death sentence was too much. ;-)

Y’know, there’s a “Murder, She Wrote” clone in this somewhere…

Well, so far, so good, Vitamin. But what were you going to do if Richard and Samuel had not fortuitously appeared at this crucial moment? Try to take down Silver and Sprocket Nitrate, and Lena, by yourself?!

BTW, while acknowledging that Vitamin is based on John Barrymore, he nevertheless does also look like Vincent Price: particularly, I think, as seen in this photo.

Then why ask Coffee for money?

My guess is that Vitamin wanted to make the scheme as “realistic” as possible, even though as an actor he could easily have had the prop department come up with a suitcase of fake money. Method acting, don’t you know.

And perhaps he had wanted to be cast as a Ranger,but had to settle for the monster part, so he does, actually want this bit of fantasy film.

For any Dick Tracy fans who are interested in trivia: There are at least 20 Tracy quizzes at funtrivia.com beginning with the first story and going to Pruneface so far. So if you’ve got the time, go see how much you can remember about the early Dick Tracy comics.

If Vitamin was just looking to scam the scammers, why did he bother his financial advisor (good ol’ “Spit-Take” Coffee) for 300,000 real dollars?

Vitamin, you bastard.

You clever, clever bastard.

Well played.

Master Thespian!

You pretty well answered your own question much better than I could. You need to get back to Marty & Spud where you can be your own discussion board.

man-o-man that was nice, cool and fun thanks n all of that but peace too! Please pass this along to STM as well. okay?

I would say that Mycroft’s Hyena Chow was an afterthought. Silver saw a way to save a few bucks and get the cash to relocate.

Well I’ll admit, Mr. Flintheart is far more clever than I’ve ever given him credit for.

Seeing as I haven’t had a pet for 10 years, I haven’t kept up with pet feeding fads.So Ole Silver saw a way to save some bucks and give Lena a fresh meal. Wonder if he used a wood chipper to hash things out with Mycroft?

Is that because the real Matt appeared briefly here only to disappear?

And on the subject of disappearing, where are Pequod (who, by the way, according to his GoComics bio is “Male, born 1959. Professor of English Chicago”) – miss his comments…and tsull (been a few days for him, too).

josiewhales GoComics PRO Member said, about 6 hours ago

Joe & Mike keep bringing these old characters back, I’d like to see them re-live Flattop, my favorite villain. I remember his hot rod coupe with either 3 pots or fuel injection. I loved him hiding out in that football stadium scoreboard. That was when CG put attention to detail in his drawingsI think perhaps you may be mixing up a couple of memories here. The original Flattop tried to hide out in a theater, I believe. In the 50s, there was Flattop Jr., who had a spiffed up hot rod car that even had a hot plate in it for cooking. In 1949 – 1950, when Tracy and Tess finally got married, there was a villain named Wormy who tried to hide in the baseball scoreboard of a fairgrounds that was deserted during the winter months. Did I miss a story featuring Flattop and a football scoreboard? When did that happen?

I don’t think Vitiamin really was a factor In Miles’ death. Sprocket’s Silver haired brother simply didn’t want to pay Mycroft’s fee and hashed out a plan

It’s somewhat late in the day, and I don’t know when (or if) Mr. Staton checks in here. But I’d like to say the art today is really fun. Vitamin’s gestures in panel 2, and Tracy pushing his hat back in a gesture of puzzlement in panel 3 are very, very reminiscent of Chester Gould’s drawings. Thank you from a Dick Tracy fan!

Bei mir faellt der Groschen spaet..Late in the day, when (hopefully) not too many will see this..morrow especially, but others, too, call Still Da Man! and Avenger09 “Matt.”.Looking over at Marty and Spud, I note that the artist is Matt Hansel, and that Matt is working on a book about Dick Locher. SDM comments have had references to Locher in the past, and responses to SDM have had references to Marty and Spud..Are these all the same person?

“morrow especially, but others, too, call Still Da Man! and Avenger09 “Matt.”Looking over at Marty and Spud, I note that the artist is Matt Hansel, and that Matt is working on a book about Dick Locher. SDM comments have had references to Locher in the past, and responses to SDM have had references to Marty and Spud.”Are these all the same person?"OMG! How could we not have seen this before?!!!! What have we been thinking?!!!Who knew a certain poster (yes, Cheap, I’m talking about you) could have been this oblivious for so long…

SDM & av09 may have a “certain similiarity”, but that’s where it ends. Everybody needs to relax. They’re not Matt!

VB, nice to see you posting at this time!