Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 27, 2012

Good morning everyone…

I’ll bet she’s not too little anymore.

Good morning, VB! And good morning Tracy Fans!

Cute Little Wingy, remember her from the Rughead story with Rainbow Reilly keeping trigger happy mobsters at bay! HEY!maybe our FBI agent IS her!Isn’t Sam a bit flirtatious here?

Sam’s as solid a cop as they come. The only time I remember him flirting was with Sleet back in ’49 or ’50.

Is that miss Lizz ? man oh man she is looking fine.

And Good Morning, VB and margueritem!

Hotshot airlines?? Wait a minute….

Good illustration of Liz.

Classic "shot " of Tracy.

I think Dick needs some reading glasses.

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen Wingy! I wonder what she looks like now.

Updated: Returning Dick Tracy characters

The Whole Sum Bank & Trust sounds like a candidate for Blackjack’s attention. It’s more than just luck that veteran detective Catchem has a contact there. But I am a little puzzled as to how the MCS computer in the background popped up an old image of Wingy instantly!

ya…Liz’s eyes look dreamy….great art work

J. Short, reading glasses won’t do Tracy much good unless he first gets some EYES!

The crime squad is proving to be on the ballPlotting Blackjack’s forthcoming fallSearching the interweb, they score a big hitSomething sure to give our villain a fitA Whole Sum Bank & Trust proved they were not Providing a key point to move forward the plot And I think we can be happy to learnThe airline wasn’t named Crash and BurnSam seems happy without Agent Dietrich near byThat woman’s moves were just to much for the guyWhat will Sam find out from Little WingyWill she prove sensible or perhaps slightly dingy?Tune in tomorrow, it has been said it will beA great pleasure, for you and for me.Thank you margueritem and Det.DD, for your comments the other day.

@lilyslore“What was the first Dick Tracy story everyone began with?”.My parents got me The Dick Tracy Casebook for Christmas sometime in the early 90s. To be specific, the first story in it is The Hotel Murders from 1936, with Athnel Jones.

Great art (as always!), especially Tracy.Thanks Joe and Shelley!

To add further, we never had Tracy in the papers (and still don’t), so this is my first experience reading it “live”. Tried reading it a few years back, but wasn’t interested..Wish we had gotten him in the paper, would’ve loved to have read the Collins stuff back then. His stories in that book were my favorites, and it’s probably going to be a LONG time before they make it into the current hardcover collections.

Tomorrow is the big day.

Truly tantalizing the way these loose threads are weaving together! It’s made opening the daily funnies as much fun as way back when you’d get ink on your fingers.

Can’t wait until tomorrow!

What is flirtatious about Sam today? He’s simply talking about the case to his longtime co-worker, Liz. And speaking of Liz, she does look gorgeous today and it doesn’t have anything to do with her hair since all we can see are her bangs. Sometimes her eyes look wonky but here they are fabulous.

I often have to roll my eyes at how fast the computers on police shows respond on TV. Those of us who work with computers know that even the top law enforcement agencies in the country don’t have computers and connections that fast. So I had to roll my eyes once again reading today’s strip and seeing Little Wingy’s image on a futuristic-looking screen right below one displaying Blackjack’s image as soon as her name is mentioned. But then, if Lee was doing research on her I guess it’s not too much of a stretch that she sent the image to the screen for all to see. I wonder if a third screen will appear if there’s another person to show?.

Dick, who’s the LEAD in this strip?.Look it’s a COMPUTER SCREEN!.Hey, THUMBS UP Gal!.You’re A LITTLE WINGY ZONN!!!

Let’s See The Story So Far….. A Gal who likes taking off and pointing her glasses (that FRANK AND ERNST gal) plays ‘touchie/feelie’ on the sofa with Sammy. A ROBOT claiming to be FLAVOR FLAV (his GIANT CLOCK replaced with a transistor RADIO) wants to be a modern day ROBIN HOOD, hasn’t given away any MONEY. RATHER the ROBOT now claims to be the number one fan of newspaper comic strips and a collector of junk. Is this a comic strip about a comic strip character or a comic strip of America’s Top Detective?!?.. Quite a Mix Up. . . . . . . oh well.

Great poetry as always, Wndrwrthg!

And it’s a safe bet that “little Wingy” isn’t so little anymore… I think you know what I mean.

When Sam said “I know someone who works there”, I thought at first he meant she works at Hotshot airlines. Wait a minute – Little Wingy works at an airline? Wingy – airline? But maybe you all are correct and she works at the bank.BTW, I get Whole Sum Bank, but what am I missing with Hotshot Airlines?

DT in glasses looks like Clark Kent.