Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 18, 2017

Cue appropriate John Barry “James Bond” musical sting.

Happy Saturday guys!

Upcoming: a fight in the dark!

This will be good.

Good Morning VB&C and to all DT fans.

I question the wisdom of a villain who thinks a pilfered uniform will disguise him when he has a beard growing out of his forehead!

We are just about to find our what’s behind door number one.

Tick-tock count down.

This sequence reminds me of two different things: 1) The original television version of Casino Royale (live, with Barry Nelson) where the elevator would show the floor going up, but you knew they were faking it and both floors were the same set; and 2) The Outer Limits episode Controlled Experiment, with Carroll O’Connor and Barry Morse as Martians manipulating an event in a hotel lobby.

News from Mike Curtis on Facebook:

“Just a brief note. The story after the Spirit adventure will be drawn by Shelley Pleger while Joe catches up on other work. Crime at a cosplay convention, with real life guest star Svengoolie!”

Svengoolie ? Excellent. He is so laconic.

Tomorrow the elevator doors open. The car is empty. But… There is an eerie laughter. A voice says, “who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?…” Shots ring out. Brush and Kitchen are down. And we learn the fifth bidder, who we never saw, was… The Shadow!

I trust that the Spirit and Tracy know enough to keep themselves out of the line of fire as the elevator door opens. That being so, then the hand-to-hand can begin which the Spirit relishes and even older Tracy can handle. After all, Brush will have hair in his eyes obscuring his vision. ;-)

Testing…. Again !!  Is this thing on ?