Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 27, 2011

Who is that guy with the gun?

I wonder who is coming to the rescue?? Sam perhaps? Or maybe not a rescue at all! This strips just continues to excel…

I like your Father Christmas avatar, marguerite!

Good morning all…

This would explain the drugging. If Vera can’t remember anything, then there’s no risk that he’ll be able to clear himself.

Excellent work by the entire Dick Tracy creative team! Thank you for making this strip great!

Good evening all …I was right, Kadaver did remove the Wrist Wizard. I hope the person with a gun is a friend of Tracy or our hero is in really big trouble.

This reminds me of the old “Silent Movies” where the damsel in distress is tied to a log on a coneveyor belt heading towards the fast moving saw blade.

Good Morning Vista Bill & everyone else.

Good mornin,’ VistaBill, Margueritem, Tarry, etc.!I’m not even going to try guessing who the mystery man is. (But that gun does look like one of the Shadow’s twin .45s…)We do know Vera isn’t going to redeem himself by saving the day.SO WHO IS IT? (Flattop’s ghost?)Also – big kudos to Joe, Shelley and Shane for some exceptional art; I love how Shelley has given us Abner’s creepy “voice.”

Last panel does remind I of the Shadow.

Now this is the type of sunday strip, that made the sunday comics, the sunday comics!

I am properly puzzled! Could the guy with the gun be Junior? Great Sunday strip!

I think Junior went to have some words with Alldid.Then, ended up finding Tracy in peril.

ooo…. Nice and tense, just like a Sunday strip should be. I’m guessing Sam’s come for the rescue, since Dick didn’t show up for dinner. (still want to see him in the yellow yarmulke) Now, I don’t know if it’s a red herring by the crew, but the Flattop remark has me wondering who Abner really is. With the Li’l Abner and Brenda Starr references, it wouldn’t surprise me if the killer is really Mark Trail.

That’s one advantage of the strip being in colour – the yellow Fedora stands out!

My guess is that the mystery man isn’t here to save Dick. Junior or Sam wouldn’t skulk in the shadows while Dick’s life is in danger. It’s more likely a hit man with orders to help Abner take his secrets to the grave. Abner is already under suspicion because of the body Honeymoon found; why risk letting him make a plea bargain? And now that Abner has revealed his plans, the hit amn may tweak them a bit: shoot Abner, untie him and leave the gun in his hand.

Wonderful sunday page.

Maybe it’s Fearless Fosdick?

Great artwork once again. I suspect the figure is Junior and he just arrived. In addition to Mr Crime’s growing mob, wouldn’t it be interesting if there were also an unknown vigilante that was helping Tracy but who’s wanted by the law himself.

The lurker’s hat seems to give a hint….. reminds me of The Shadow.

But shouldn’t the stage lights be facing toward Tracy instead of turned toward us – leaving Tracy, who supposedly is being filmed, in the dark???

That is one big pistol; a Glock on steroids.

Always wondered where EA Poe got his ideas!

I think Kadaver’s watched too many cheesy horror shows where the villian always comes up with some elaborate plan to kill the hero then leaves before the job is done, thus letting the hero escape. At the same time, he should KNOW that the hero always escapes. I think the movie in his head is a few frames short of a complete picture.

I don’t think its Sam … his coat isn’t very “Sam like” … if its someone we know, I’m guessing its Junior … but it could be a new character. Does he have on an “Ike” jacket … ?-Unless I missed it … there hasn’t been a post here about the untimely death at age 68 of Les Daniels last week … one of the earliest historians of comic books in America and an author of novels. He will be missed.

Betcha its Junior

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Mike Curtis … are you here??? Don’t think we’ve heard from you for awhile.

totally blown away by this one. wow!

It’s a good strip which I enjoy viewing.

Gentlemen: May I suggest that the Shadow does make an appearance one day in the strip? That would be spectacular. Two of the greatest modern strip crime fighters coming together :).

Re: Crimestopper – The Quakers of Pennsylvania were also responsible for the earliest penitentiaries. They thought if people were given time alone to think they would become penitent.

I vote with the “Junior” contingent; no spoilers via comment from the creative team, please.

@APersonOfInterest

I just talked to Mike’s wife Carole a few minutes ago. They are having computer problems which supposedly will be fixed tomorrow.

Night,.Re your recollection below:.“There was on crossover of The Shadow with another Golden Age radio hero. Can’t recall who . . . "

I believe it was a comic book that also featured another pulp novel hero, Doc Savage. This was a cross-over that was possible because both characters were owned by Conde Nast, the successor to Street & Smith, which published the Shadow and Doc Savage pulp magazines.

A similar crossover with Tracy is not likely, because of the copyright problems.

FWIW, I don’t really think masked, costumed heroes like The Shadow, or super-powered figures like Doc Savage, fit into the more realistic, “police procedural” world of Tracy.

If copyright issues could be gotten by (they can’t, so this is just fantasy), I’d prefer to see cross-overs in which Tracy met characters like Joe Friday from DRAGNET, Steve Carella from Ed McBain’s “87th Precinct” novels, or Martin Beck from the Swedish cop novels by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo.

@Jim Doherty:

i read most of the 87th Precinct novels. There is a reference in one of them where a character notices that the snow flakes that are falling are large ones, “just like in Dick Tracy” I thought that was pretty cool when I read it back in the 70’s. And in Ellery Queen’s forward to “The Celebrated Cases of Dick Tracy” Queen makes the point that Dick Tracy actually was first with the concept of a “police procedural” story, 20 years before Ed McBain wrote his first 87th novel.Sometimes, the 87th novels “felt” like a DT story. The main difference was the team approach, where the whole squadroom was involved, whereas in DT, it was mostly Tracy and Sam. Still, we now have Lizz and Ebony and others helping.