Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 02, 2011

That is a classic!

Amen to that, Tracy!!!

FEARLESS FOSDICK

Al Capp would be proud to know that his lampoon of Dick Tracy is still remembered..

I loved Fearless Fosdick!

Good morning all…

Such a great answer Tracy!

Wow. Awesome on sooo many levels.

No word of a lie… I saw the last panel and I burst out laughing. Thank you for the Li’l Abner tribute, guys!

And good morning, VB!

I hate to say it, but I grow weary of all these inside jokes and not-at-all subtle “shout outs” and homages. A little subtlety will go a long way.

Delicious irony in Tracy’s preference for a parody of himself! —And for more Fosdick fun, including a look at the fedora he originally wore, until Capp had to replace it with a bowler for legal reasons: http://tinyurl.com/3g7cmle

This comic helps to keep my father alive. We Print this comic daily and have for quite some time now and this is the earliest that I have been able to print it. I appreciate the workmanship of all who are involved . My father is 80yo and loves Dick Tracy since 10cents (40,s) I am guessing. He currently is scrapbooking every comic on a daily basis. Thank you all…….Sincerely Burton Alspaugh Jr.

Who is Vera Alldid and “The Invisible Tribe” a parody of? Was she an old Dick Tracy character too?

THE INVISIBLE TRIBE

Haha! That’s great. Too bad it was canceled. The invisible Tribe is one of the few strips that wouldn’t have had a problem when all of the papers started reducing their strip sizes.

Ah, my second favorite comic strip cop!

Oh, and subtle Tracy is not and never has been.

And Tarry: thanks for the picture of Vera’s car yesterday! Yup, that was what I was thinking of.

You can’t get much better than this!

I didn’t know that the Invisible Tribe was a real comic. Who drew it? Was Vera Alldid a pseudonym for Chester Gould?

Oh — I see what you did there! I think this is the first time I’ve ever LOL’d at Dick Tracy. Lovely!

Excellent comment on Dick’s favorite comic strip!!!

I love Fearless, too!

In Fearless Fosdick’s famous “The Case of the Chippendale Chair,” the Chair got the chair. (for murder)

Reduced to illustrating coloring books. Time doesn’t seem to have been kind to Vera. Not that he doesn’t deserve it…

The troulbe with “The Invisible Tribe” is that no one could tell who the speech bubbles were coming from. Also the plush toy spinoffs never sold well.

Next thing you know we’ll have a reference to KERRY DRAKE, a detective strip rip-off of DICK TRACY. Anybody remember that one…and the same type villians Tracy encounters?

Fearless Fosdick!!!!I was laughing out loud when I saw that!

@Flight SuitConsidering all the problems the strip had before Mike, Joe, Shelley & Shane took over, your complaint about a lack of subtletly had me laughing, too!

Lil’ Abner’s “Ideel”…

I think Al Capp and Chester Gould are BOTH looking down and smiling that so many remember their work.

I’d forgotten about Fearless Fosdick. Thanks for the memory jog. If I’m not mistaken, both Li’l Abner and Dick Tracy were page one stalwarts in the Chicago Tribune Sunday comics for many years—in the ’60s as I recall.

WOW!! There’s a character I haven’t heard of in a L O N Gtime!! One of my favorites from many yeas ago. Have to “Google” this one!

This is wonderful! I love it when a classic comic strip is revitalized by a team who knows the characters, loves the history of the strip, and truly cares about the product.

LOL!!! I love it! This strip keeps getting better and better! This strip should get an award for best re-birth! Not re-boot,but re-birth! Thank you Team Tracy!

I love it. Thanks for the laugh.

Love the shout out to Lil’ Abner’s favorite comic strip! Reading those “strips” in Abner is probably what got me into reading Dick Tracy in the first place. (yes, I knew about FF before I knew about DT…)

Dick Tracy used that joke at least once before. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. Postal Service first issued stamps featuring classic comic strip characters, the event was noted in the Tracy strip. The characters were talking about the stamp and Dick identified the character on the stamp as Fearless Fosdick.

Fearless Fosdick was a comic within a comic, ie Al Capp’s Li’l Abner. If you missed it, no problem, it’s in an endless circle in the Lil Abner strip. I beleive FF was a parody of Dick Tracy – thus the snip back at him. Incidentally, FF advertised Wildroot Cream Oil. Did DT ever get such an honor?

Vera always had an edge – stalking the obscene phone caller then finding him dead and picking up the murder weapon, hitting Bulky with an ash tray stand, not telling Sparkle about his female joke writer. I was relieved the Collins Fletcher crew ditched him but REALLY happy to see him again now. Awkward! His depiction is terrific! I second a request to see how Peanutbutter turned out…my guess would be as a know-it-all-criminal who would turn straight with a certain amount of rehabilitation, only to prove everyone a sucker while he makes a bigger score.

Vera’s car met its demise when it was used as a flaming death trap for Liz

Fearless Fosdick? That’s a Lil’ Abner reference.

Since Fearless Fosdick was a comic strip within a comic strip, then it’s not that surprising that Dick would read it as well. All things are possible in the world of comics.

Fearless Fosdick! Great!!!

Fearless Fosdick was a parody of Dick Tracy, but was also partially responsible for one of Dick Tracy’s most dastardly villains. In the Dick Tracy Casebook: Favorite Adventures 1931 – 1990, Collins admits that the infamous Putty Puss was at least partially based on the Fosdick villain Anyface.

Aaron

Always read Dick Tracy. Kept my eye on Little Abner so I would be sure to catch the transitions to Fearless Fosdick.

I liked panel 3 and the reference to “Fearless Fosdick”!