Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for January 06, 2023

“Wait just a minute! I’m supposed to double-cross you!”

Good morning™, all!

This may just accelerate the plan to cut Paul out of the action. He’s pretty critical to the whole operation, but his part of the work is done.

Monetary cash or bullet cache?

Betcha a cup of coffee(MCU’s precinct special, Govassador’s moon glow or Blaze’s route 69 brand) that Paul doesn’t make it out of the room.

the chimp chokes and is hoisted on his own petard… good for you, Paul, GO for it… but keep your eye on your simian accomplice…

Mike is spinning the wheel big time lately!

Many DT strip’s characters who pushed for a bigger share met a rather unpleasant fate. Paul beware!

Good morning™, soon to be ex partners !

This could be a grizzly end for Paul. He don’t know who he’s playing with, or does he ?

a grisly end at the hands of a grizzly bear… but in THIS case, a chortling chimp… hopefully, Paul isn’t making a monkey of himself in his cordial demand for a larger share of the spoils…

No place like a public coffeehouse to have an argument over an illegal multimillion dollar art forgery scheme.

Art Dekko should fear the IRS more than Dick Tracy !!! Look what they just did to Todd Christie !!!

Art gagging on his coffee, Paul wanting a bigger piece of the pie, things are becoming interesting!

A bigger piece? I have it out in the alley…

And Paul just signed a certain death warrant!

Ah, Art and Paul are having the beverage of choice in this comic strip…coffee. Could it be: Folgers, Maxwell House or NesCafe?

1-ART: What’s the hubbub, bub? Oh. Coffee. How thoughtful…

2-…If it’s about reimbursement on that Paint-By-Numbers, DaVinci Edition, you’ll have to wait till the thing sells. I’m skinnt. Oh, that’s British for broke. Also, as an Anglophile I…

3-… SPIT HATE COFFEE! NOW GET ME A SPOT OF TEA!

PAUL: Sorry. I just thought I should tell you that I accidentally signed the painting with MY name. Force of habit. Sorry… uh, old chap?

Anyone else hear Chopin’s funeral march?

Darn! I was hoping for one more day of Diet Smith and Daddy Warbucks. But I’m not surprised, such interludes rarely last more than two days.

Art needs another cup of coffee since nobody ever driniks coffee around here.

How smart is Paul? Does he have a mechanism that will out Art if anything untoward happens to him?

Hm… maybe Art should’a used one of them A.I. programs instead. I hear they’re all the rage.

Which brings us back around to why Monkey face gets a share at all…

MOVIE QUOTE—-“You’ve been cheating men all your life.But there are twelve men you WON’T cheat. The firing squad!!”

Lionel Barrymore to Greta Garbo—MATA HARI—1931

I love it.Hey,Art,this is a stick-up!!

Besides that,somebody hung the forgery upside down and they haven’t noticed.

Just to let you know… Chapter 5 of “Trouble In Paradise?” has been posted to my Dick Tracy Message Board

Hope the link works

https://thedicktracycrimestoppers.createaforum.com/general-discussion/

btw, anyone know what happened to that old guy i the garage from…what… three months ago? just curious

Thanks to Shel Dorf I can go back to the old days whenever I want.

Been looking through the 1960 strips,Fifth and Flyface trying to outrun a tidal wave(and 51 years later,we found out they somehow survived).

But Fifth lost his shoes and shorts in the roar—so he must have been naked when he was discovered.Didn’t anybody think that was unusual?

No to mention that Flyface’s flies didn’t drown.

So, Cousin Pauley is looking rather formidable in panel 3! Or should I harken back to the arch-villain Dr. Pauli of the really old-time TV series, Captain Video?

In either case, The little cockroach, Art Dekko, is doing a classic spit-take in panel 3 as he reacts to Paul’s demand. How soon will that reaction coalesce into murderous intent? And, how soon, murder most foul? Who survives, who dies? And what of Sue Reel?

There is no honor among thieves, they say….