Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 24, 2015

Although we’ve been surprised MANY times before, that shadowed figure sure LOOKS like Flattop! If so, in one way it should satisfy many who have asked to see him again, but then again, it won’t be the same crook!

The Fabled Yellow Coat …!!

,Good morning everyone!.Three days and counting.

Is that silhouette the #1 Dick Tracy villain of all time, Floyd Jones aka Flattop?

LOL! Today’s strip is a mashup of Dick Tracy and Batman!

This is Too Much!! Flat-Top, The Chalice, Big Dick…Too Cool…but does he smoke?? I vaguely remember Bud Jenkins and how he was blackmailing Flattop and fell thru the ice with his new ice skates and then??memory fades….help me out here…what’s going on?

It looks like “The Chalice” really is Flattop, the “Holy Grail” of Gould characters.

No countdown to day, Vista Bill? :)

Whoever first said that The Chalice is Flattop hit it on the head

Nice alternate reality! Wonder how Chester Gould might have reacted had he seen it? Come to think of it, Flattop- Bud Jenkins pair is like Dick Tracy- Junior. And what about Junior equivalent in this timeline? It doesn’t bear thinking! But maybe there’s no Junior there. Oww, my head!

“Is this young Bud Jenkins?” Do Batman ever asks “Is this Robin?”

There was a “Justice League” animated story where they visit a parallel earth which had been destroyed, but recreated as a mutant youth’s fantasy, and as a result he got to pal around with the recreated heroes as their sidekick.

The tale is a bit more complicated than that, but the past few days really remind me of it.

The Brow, it turns out here in the Midnite Mirror, is Alfred Boche, valet to The Chalice, who in partial rear-profile appears to be Flattop. In this fantastical wonderland Flattop is some sort of ally to the police in crimefighting, and the presence of a valet named Alfred certainly does call to mind Batman. Could “The Chalice” be Flatttop’s crimefighter soubriquet?

Bud’s presence here in the storyline reminds me of Boston Blackie’s buddy/sidekick “The Runt” in the Chester Moris Colpix films of the 1940’s.

“Good morning to you Countdown boy !”"Gweed, if that happened to be in reference to my “count UP” comment to Vista Bill, I certainly meant it iwith the greatest respect to him: As in:“Onward and ever Upward”!

“The Chalice” reminds me of of other detective-adventurers who help the poice out – Boston Blackie,The Saint, The Lone Wolf.

Yesterday, Ron-Ar said “Maybe it’s Alfred, and the guy in silhouette is Bruce Wayne.” I didn’t know what Ron-Ar was referring to; there was no silhouette character yesterday. Now this pops up today. Who is this Ron-Ar, and does he have an inside look at things?

And Alfred is acting like the butler. Hmmmm…

The setup of these characters certainly seems to resemble Batman, with “The Chalice” being Batman, the kid being Robin, and of course the Brow being Alfred. That would make “The Chalice” (undoubtedly Flattop) some sort of crimefighter. In this case the equivalent of Commissioner Gordon is Chief Boche, who calls on Batman to help him rid the city of crime.

A blissful Saturday my friends. Just passing through. Got errands to run. Have a bountiful day everyone.

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giggles</> I never heard of Bambi3, until you posted that link. Brilliant! Reminds me of “Deer Avenger” A boyfriend of mine, at the time had all of them and we played them for hours.

The silhouette’s actually a front profile of Pignose Brillohead.

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“ALFRED, WILL YOU BRING AROUND THE BATMOBILE?”_

For a second or two there, given the opulence, name and phrasing, one might easily have thought the shadowy figure emerging was one *Bruce Wayne -

until, we remembered that it was supposed to be the Chalice aka Flattop !As young Dick Grayson reminded us of the reality in his greeting !

Yet, colleague seanyj (earlier this morning) - certainly seemed to get similar Batman vibes from the same encounter,Alfred, even seemed to be reaching for the “Masters” Costume in panel 3(Did I just slip there and say - “REALITY” ??)

And then like others here, not “carried away” with faux nostalgia, we recall that this sequence has no basis in fact . . .Waiting to “find out” if it’s a Play (?) A Movie (?) A Diet Smith Blurred Image project or a (shot & ‘dreaming’) B-B Eyes Nightmare ?

Just like readers WAITING (now 2 weeks), to be’ TOLD *-Given a reason for this (stretched?) harum-scarum sequence, featuring long DEAD characters . . . ?

Until the ’more thoughtful. among us “recall” it’s been now the ‘First Time’ in the Wrap Up of a ‘high shooting’ Dick Tracy tale where characters - fell like flies, as others simply ‘vanished’(?) - there still remains, No Accounting of who ‘Lived’ and who ‘Died’ ?

Ranking alongside those ‘mysterious’ Blood Flows (from ICE) in Antarctica (do a Search…)

And one realizes TODAY (it was not so in the past) - a Tip of the Hat to Sammy Kaye . . . ?Everything is ‘crafted’ to SWING the MYSTERY way !

Much you’re simply not told . . . And NOW with a ‘Sense of Urgency’(?) most everything new is CRAFTED into a “MYSTERY” !

WHY ?An Itchy Oliver in the current sequence, might well ask …“What ever happened to - “Open and Shut” ?

It would be good if the new, upcoming Villain could be a pointer … ‘appropriately’ called -“The CANARY”

I hope the colorist was correctly instructed today!

I’m Dick Tracy! Take that, PruneFace! Now I’m PruneFace! Take that, Dick Tracy! Now I’m Prune Tracy!

This reminds me of the British gentlemen sleuths like Lord Peter Wimsey and Albert Campion, who had valet/chauffeurs (Bunter and Lugg, respectively), and would be called in, unofficially of course, to help Scotland Yard.

This week was marking time a bit, but I’m guessing Mike & Joe wanted to save the full-camera reveal of “The Chalice” for Sunday.

Thanks guys for the nice comments regarding my upcoming 81st birthday!

Thanks guys for the nice comments regarding my upcoming 81st birthday!

Where are the Flatboat, Flatcopter, Flatcycle and Flatwing?

Not to be confused with Disney character Flatwing Fowl!

And now for something completely different (… yet cool nonetheless)

Night-Gaunt49 indicated,We wait for that crowning day of glory.-————————————————————-.For me, anticipation is much of the fun.

I don’t think this story should count in Tracy continuity because it clearly is an imaginary/fantasy story. Maybe even someone’s dream or hallucination as some have suggested. It is moving quite slow compared to the previous story which skipped so many details that we still don’t know some of what happened. I hope this doesn’t drag on too long. Anxious to get back to see what happened to Mysta and everyone else.