Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for February 12, 2012

Good morning all…

So Hoover was jealous of Purvis’ success…

Good morning VB, and all the Tracy fans!

I’m with DT. Who needs all that violence on the tube when it really belongs in comic strips?

Well, to be precise, Thunderchild’s foreign object is an immediate disqualification only if it is “seen” by the referee. Otherwise, it is a smart move (kayfabe).

Watch out for that Marvel copyright infringement, by Odin !

Great to see Dick spending time with Tess and Joe.

@Cam 22: Verily I say unto thee.

Very nice “Tracy family at home” drawing Mr. Staton!!! -Team Tracy – You have me eager to read the Sunday Funnies again.

The Amazing Spiderman comic strip features Thor right now!

Some years back a former wrassler explained the blood. It’s real, but it’s part of the script. The performer cuts himself, usually in the eyebrow area, with one of those coupon-cutting tools (the thing that exposes just enough of a blade to cut through one sheet of paper). Minor facial cuts are harmless but bleed spectacularly.

Too violent? Obviously being said sarcastically by the man who had a bullet hole in his hat last week.

The movie Public Enemies was based on Melvin Purvis going after John Dillinger..Great Sunday Strip Gang, love the “tongue in cheek” last panel.

re: Tracy’s Hall of Fame — I don’t imagine the fact his name sounded like an ancient Roman pervert didn’t work in his favor.

the hammer is illegal ONLY if he uses it. if the ref takes it away, then simply handing it to him is not cause for DQ at all.

Thanks to Sgt Doherty again for keep the facts straight on history, Hoover was jealous of the success of a number of his field agents.Included that Ness fella in Chicago, but I understand Elliot also cleaned up Kansas city too.

If Thunderchild were to actually hit someone with that hammer, I bet they’d be Thor for days ;)

Tess is looking lovely today.

oh yeah? how many notches on that pistola there, DICK?

thunder child is a bum

Good to finally see Joe! I haven’t seen him since his birth, in “Dick Tracy meets the punks” digest. Now we just need our resident honey ham :)

Regarding Tracy’s comment in the last panel:Perhaps the point being made is this:A police officer’s life will sometimes be violent, because his job is fighting crime, and crime is often violent. But, that is not the same as silly, gratuitous, exaggerated violence being pumped into one’s living room in the name of “entertainment” – especially when one’s wife and son are watching.

J. Edger Hoover was nothing but a big crook himself!

R.I.P. Whitney HoustonThe World lost one of it’s greatest performers. We’ll miss you.

There’s considerable argument about Purves’s role in the Dillinger case and some of the other cases. Hoover had appointed Sam Cowley to head up the Chicago office over Purves. There was some animosity between Cowley and Purves but they apparently made an effective team, particularly when Cowley showed the men in the office that he would drive himself as hard if not harder than he did the others. It was Cowley who made the deal with the infamous “Woman in Red” that led to the gunfight at the Biograph Theater. Cowley was happy to let Purves hold the press conference after Dillinger was killed while he briefed Hoover by phone.

Following Dillinger’s death Cowley was assigned to hunt down Lester Gillis, aka Baby Face Nelson. Cowley and fellow agent Herman Hollis caught up with Nelson outside of the town of Barrington Illinois. In the gunfight that followed Nelson killed Hollis and severely wounded Cowley who died the next day. However Cowley, who was armed with submachine gun, is probably the one responsible for Nelson’s death the next day.

Purves and Cowley are both characters in former “Dick Tracy” writer Max Allan Collins’s Nathan Heller novel “True Crime.” So is Hoover, but he doesn’t come off nearly as well as either Cowley or Purves.

Also, let’s not forget there is a “Thor” in the “B.C.” comic strip….

What’s with the damn ad that overlaid on the zoom function?

You guys make it great EVERY day now … I’m loving it that the wrestlers’ manager’s title is ‘Loki’, interesting spin on it. Jack would get a laugh out of it, and be proud to boot! Wonder if Marvel will intro a ‘Son Of Thor’….

LET’S GET READY TO RUUUMBLLLLE!

Is SAC John “Chip” Hardesty as portrayed by the great Jimmy Stewart in The FBI Story a fictional character, or a composite of great agents?

“Moronicus” Snork!

Thise were supposed to be just plain asterisks around “snork”, not “stong” indicators… sigh

Joe Staton speaks today,

and he says….

Here’s Commentator Jerry King!