Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for March 29, 2012

Terry and the Pirates ?

Good morning all…

Dragon Lady in the last picture? I don’t know the blonde.

Great story about the bank.

The blonde is the amazing Burma! Glad to see Charlie’s landed on his feet.

Good morning, VB, margueritem, and all nightowls. Oh, this strip just gets better and better! I was hoping to hear some “Saint Louis Blues” today.

Good morning all!

What an executive office Hotshot Airlines has, with the walls decked with portraits of Terry Lee, Milt Caniff, Burma, and The Dragon Lady! And an amazingly youthful Charles C. Charles in charge [TV pun intended].

@Sisyphos: Wonder what the C. stands for? (evil grin)

First Brenda Starr’s old buddies, now Terry Lee’s. We’ve discovering Tracy has indeed very interesting acquaintances. The “Tracyverse” is getting richer and richer!

I’m waiting to see who shows up from Little Orphan Annie. I’d vote for Punjab, but he’s too tall to fit in today’s smaller comics…

As I recall, Alley Oop looks pretty good in a suit and tie.

His eyes look like slits in that last frame. What’s in that pipe?

The song “St. Louis Blues” was Burma’s favorite song. Everytime you heard it in the strip, you knew that Burma was real close by. Also glad to see the Dragon Lady got snuck in today too!

How cool. There are more Terry characters in today’s strip than Tracy ones. Had Charlie been introduced before Burma died in Terry? I’m not a huge Terry fan but always associate Charlie more with the Wunder years.

i wanna see winnie winkle lol

If the police station catches on fire, does Smokey Stover show up?

At first I thought Charlie was Junior!

I love Charlie’s story – foreclosing on a bank!Inspired idea, Mike!And I love the art – focusing on Charlie, with Tracy a shilouette.No question – Dick Tracy is the best continuing strip around!

There was a similar story in the newspaper recently. Some bank had committed a major transgression and was required to backtrack and pay a big fine as well. They dawdled for a long time in paying the fine. Finally the guy to whom the fine was owed went to the judge and requested a foreclosure order. He got it. Showed up a the bank one day with a moving van and movers and started carrying out the desks right from under the customers and employees. A bank exec started to protest, and the guy waved his foreclosure order in his face. The check appeared in short order. Love it!

There’s a news story that was very similar to this…only substitute a Bank of America branch for the fictional bank in the strip.

Ah! Winnie Winkle, Brenda Starr, what lovelies for a young boy’s imagination!

Smokey Stover! Pottsy (the Policeman!) How about the Teenie Weenies, that had a brief text story and cut-out figures? And I, too, remember when Terry and the Pirates was drawn by George Wunder… Dolores Deepsix, Fife Drummond, and what adventures that were in tune with the times! Not to forget, of course, Steve Canyon!

Alas! Where have the great ones gone?

Li’l Abner – comedy with just a touch of satire but not sarcasm. The likes of which you just don’t find today.

Am I the only one wishing Mike and Joe would start up a new Annie strip? I miss her something awful.

I’m guessing that the comic strip characters available for appearance in DT will all be from the Tribune Syndicate. Like Starr and Terry … Annie? Is this true?

Love the city skyline behind Tracy in panel 2. Of course, all the beautiful women pictured are very nice, too.

So is Terry gonna show up, too? How about Pat Ryan and Burma? Connie and Big Stoop?

Based on a real story.

I vote next it’ll be Joe Paloka and Little Max!!!Henrry and the Litle King will show as hoods, but not talk when questioned as they are mutes! Little Max will be a witness to their crime, but suffers from the same affliction.Mandrake will be called in to read minds….

Hot Shot Charlie and Hot Rise! That would be some couple! Wonder what the kids would look like???

Maybe that should be Mike & Joe’s next gig ? ;)

Did anyone remember that this actually happened to some Florida homeowners? The bank tried to foreclose on them – when they paid CASH for their house, and didn’t even HAVE a mortgage! The judge ruled against the bank, and five months later, when the bank still hadn’t paid the homeowner’s legal fees, their lawyer foreclosed on the bank in exactly the same fashion!

George Wunder took over Terry And The Pirates on Jan. 1st 1947…he drew the strip until the 60’s when George Evans began assisting him, and then ghosted the strip until it ceased in February 1973. Burma appeared in TATP long before Hotshot Charles C. Charles, late of Boston, began appearing during the WW 2 years. He appeared in the continuity into the early 60’s.

Did anyone notice in yesterday’s strip – third panel, the airplane outside the window was a DC-3?

I would also like to say thank you for bringing back these characters. I really miss them. Any chance Mary Perkins may show up in town to do a play touring the country?

Are we seeing characters from Milton Caniff, like the Dragon Lady, Steve Canyon, and Terry and The Pirates? Joe Stanton is too good an illustrator to mimic the work of Smilin’ Jack, but then who other than Smilin’ Jack is Hotshot Charlie? Zack Mosley was one cartoonist that favored me with an actual daily strip when I requested it. What a guy!

Tables Turn: Deputies and movers show up at bank to seize property for homeowner

Tribune Syndicate only? Shame… I’d hoped for a crossover with those Philadelphia cops Joe & Crunchy from JumpStart. Or a crossover with NANCY… man, if Aunt Fritzi and Lizz Worthington appeared on the same page, the pulchritudinous beauty would be literally stunning!

Never got to read Terry and the pirates,a very old strip. Why isn ’t Little Wingy the boss?

I believe the strip is referencing a real event, where a couple who’d been played by their bank got the foreclosure turned on them. IMHO, it needs to happen. The woman who once baby-sat my grandchild had her bank attempt to foreclose on her, and she was a MONTH ahead on her mortgage. Too bad they forgot that she worked for the sheriff in that town. After blasting (verbally) the bank execs, he then said, “Don’t call this office for any legal action, until I TELL you that you can.”