Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for June 23, 2014

Escanaba, Michigan is 45 degrees North latitude 87 degrees West longitude. Could be a clue?

Better every day!

Escanaba, MI is about a 6 hour drive from Chicago/Naperville IL.

when this written? Annie’s under duress and sneaking code past someone. the envelope has a “vintage” stamp, but isn’t Sparkle’s country career recent?

also, Staton & Curtis draw the Annie characters much better than the guys at “Annie” do…

I just re-checked the latitude and longitude listed in the letter (whew, a bit of alliteration there). 45 N by 87 W lands around Bailey’s Harbor, WI. Using the site findlatitudeandlongitude.com , it actually provided an address: 7949 Ridges Road, Baileys Harbor, WI. I wonder if there’s a philatelist in the vicinity….

I stumbled on an article about a 1790 letter in France finally getting to its destination…in 2010.

Atta boy Tracy. Real detectives roll up their sleeves when it’s time to get to work!

Annie is at Baileys Harbour Wisconsin, 87°West 45°North.

Maybe…

Or possible North.Western China if the 87° is east…

I’m just glad Bonnie’ s profile looks more natural today. She looked a bit freakish yesterday!

The latitude and longitude interpretation is too simple an explanation. There is another interpretation to this coded message that Dick is trying to figure out.

Escanaba, Michigan is at 45°44′43″N 87°3′52″W..Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin is at 45°3′47″N 87°7′29″W..Both are close so you decide. 8>)

Good morning guys

Annie wants a photo. Did she put an address on the letter?

HOLY CRAP!! BONNIE BRAIDS… two days in a row!!!

Good morning DT and Annie fans. You could be correct Stagger Lee.

“Will you send me an autographed picture?” So an address would be needed. No address of course but if encoded so as to bypass censors, surely they would see no point in allowing the message. Vintage stamp. Tie in to time machine?

Something tells me Dad won’t be eating dinner tonight.

I ran the letter through a decryption program. I’m stunned.

“Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine”

Mind=Blown

She’s being held on Washington Island.That old stamp wasn’t just postage – it was a clue.

SYDNEY PHILLIPS said, about 23 hours ago

@bassmanbob

Speaking of you ‘well enjoyed’ stories from the past, I guess you know they don’t seem to ‘exist’ on this Board anymore ! ?

Is there anyplace one can have the ENJOYMENT of reading them again ?

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Hello Sydney. thank you for your interest in my Annie story. I placed it this morning in the Annie comments board if you or anyone else would like to read it it’s there. I am almost finished with the Annie/Tracy crossover I started in 2010 and will post it very soon.

Peace.

BB

Perhaps Tracy can use Diet’s “Project Blue Image” to go back in time when Annie was at 45Nx87 and rescue her then, and bring her back to the present, still as a little girl …..

Just wait ’til Diet delivers Tracy his latest Wizard upgrade — the Two-Way Wrist Tachyonic Antitelephone!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic_antitelephone

“Person-to-person for Miss Warbucks…”

I love all the unexpected twists and turns ahead..

Back from my Hawaiian vacation. Many INTERESTING developments.

The NY Times has covered this crossover adventure. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/23/annie-missing-no-worries-dick-tracy-is-on-the-case/

87 degrees north latitude, 45 degrees west longitude…oh my gosh! Annie was kidnapped by Santa Claus!…

If my GPS is working right, Annie is in the hands of SDM!

Aahhhh, very clever!

The External Links section of the Wikipedia article I just cited has links to quite a few examples from these strips.

Drink more Ovaltine and find out if it’s a clue!

Wow, you guys are good. Washington Island (here’s a map) seems like the perfect solution at 45.372123 degrees north and 86.897003 degrees west (rounds off to 45 and 87).

So, to summarize:- Country [and Western?] records at 87 degrees almost melted- She wishes it was 45 degrees up North- Washington Island is suggested by the George Washington stamp

It’s only a theory, but a good one. If this turns out to be true, I hope we’re not going to get a lot of complaints that the story is slow as Dick Tracy figures it out and explains it.

With any luck, this is Washington Island:

Diet Smith’s time travel experiment may figure into the story later, but right now, I think it’s thrown us all off. We see a 3 cent stamp and connect the two to assume the letter was sent through time.Maybe, maybe not…

If Annie wanted an autographed photo she should have sent in two Ovaltine labels.