Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 07, 2023

Suddenly, and without any warning, Sam Felt like a third wheel.

Owen wants to get to know Dick a bit more, hence the dinner date…

and Dick is glad to reciprocate… LOL…

Good morning™, everyone!

Wherever Tracy’s city is, it’s kind of amazing that there’s a private club for a school in Massachusetts in it, but I guess those people have a lot of money.

Not only does Tracy call him Owen, it looks like it says Owen on the door, so Sam is the odd man out calling him by his first initial and second name.

Good morning™, Caterpillar blade chins !

Tracy looks especially ‘blocky’ in P.3. That, and the jagged facial line reminds me of a Bizarro Superman face. P.2. Owen has good lines. P.1. Is a nice contrast/combination of standard image and silhouette.

Tracy looks like the cat who got the canary in panel 3! Well drawn!

Dick all dreamy eyed.

Everybody continuing to address Tracy as ‘detective’ in this story now leads me to suspect that Eric is secretly Ra’s al Ghul….

Come dine at the Choate Club, where are maître d’ Henri Heimlich is ready to assist any of our diners who choate.

Let’s have dinner. She might be there.

Sam, meanwhile, is off to Marmel’s Deli for a nice brisket on rye with some Kasha and bowties and Canada Dry Black Cherry Wishniak. ;-9

“Will we have pastrami?!?! Sam lives on the stuff and insists it gives you super powers!!!’

’Super powers? Like what? Sticky fingers?"

“Yes. AND it’s less painful than a spider bite!”

(siiiiiigh) “Law and order in his city is SO doomed.”

Well Dick and Sam get a free dinner! So goes the story……………….

1-DT: HEY! TURN UP THE LIGHTS!

2-NORMAN DESMOND: Oh – sorry but that chin of yours was kind of freaking me out.

3-DT: You should try shaving it! I go through two blades and a can of shave cream every day! ALL: HA HA HA!

NORMAN: But seriously – you should see a doctor. At the least a plastic surgeon.

I think Owen and Tracy like each other. First date tonight?

choke club?

Tracy is hoping that after dinner he and Owen can head over to Gweedo’s farm!

Will Madame X bring along her sister Marian the librarian who is in town visiting from River City

Ah…the Choate club for dining out. I suppose this guy who gives the invite will pick up the check.

Owen the Railroad Buff and Tracy the Detective are dining tonight at The Chaote Cub in Downtown Tracyville, in the expectation of seeing Xaviera Libris there. Good luck all around!

(Except you, Sam. Go to the deli on your own, then home.)

I’m guessing that Dick remembers seeing her name and that’s why he’s smiling.

There’s more violence in today’s JumpStart than we get in Tracy.

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