Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 21, 2014

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    cpalmeresq  almost 10 years ago

    Now, this is good!

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    MJ Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    He looks as much like Boris as she looks like Sara. That streak of white hair is accurate, at least..Oh, wait…..I’ve never seen her angry. She seems to be perpetually smiling. Maybe this IS what she looks like when she’s aggravated.

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    Neil Wick  almost 10 years ago

    Sara Karloff is a friend of Joe’s and Mike’s and gave special permission for them to use the likeness of her father, of which she holds all rights.

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    MJ Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Hey, just in case anyone is interested, you can watch “Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome” free at https://archive.org/details/dick_tracy_meets_gruesome. Or, spend a buck and get a DVD at your friendly neighborhood dollar store. It’s worth it, if only to hear Pat say, “Gruesome looks like that actor, Boris Karloff.”.Happy Trails!

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    jonahhex1  almost 10 years ago

    Wow….Gruesome gets slammed by Karloff’s daughter….nice

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    Sisyphos  almost 10 years ago

    Now that’s an unexpected turn! Sara Karloff! And Gruesome is instantly drawn to her, because she doesn’t think he looks like her father. That man has a host of hang-ups! He’s probably legally around the bend and non compos mentis.

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    stsparky  almost 10 years ago

    Sara is super nice. As was her father. This is a fun arc.

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    William Weedman  almost 10 years ago

    Hey! Where Pequod77? I suppose he’s off for the holidays?

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    tripplett314  almost 10 years ago

    What a sweet Christmas surprise!

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 10 years ago

    Well, now we know who Sara is! I wonder how someone can “own” the rights to a deceased person’s likeness? I’m sure that every second someone is born who will turn out to be a dead ringer for someone else.

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    coldsooner  almost 10 years ago

    Ms. Karloff is right. With that funky “smile” Gruesome looks more like Rockett Raccoon.

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    scottmandew  almost 10 years ago

    Sara Karloff is a sweetheart. I’ve met her several times. I’m loving the turn this story has taken!

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Excellent! :D

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    Yngvar Følling  almost 10 years ago

    How often do real people appear in Dick Tracy? I remember George Takei last year (it was around then that I started reading it regularly here), but his name had been changed slightly.

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    Starman1948  almost 10 years ago

    Good morning my friends. I didn’t see that one coming. Excellent comments all. Y’all have an awesome day.

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    Vista Bill Raley and Comet™  almost 10 years ago

    Good morning guys!

    What a surprise!

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    Can't Sleep  almost 10 years ago

    Love it! Sara Karloff calls him out.A great way to thank her for letting them use her father’s image, stylized though it is.I also like the mummy in panel 2; Karloff starred in the original Mummy film, back in the 30’s.I love this story. More twists and unexpected developments than I can keep track of.

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    Can't Sleep  almost 10 years ago

    Hey! Those knobby antennae in panel 4 – Could Mysta and her friends be there?Gruesome taken down with a moonzap?(Okay, I doubt it’s her. But, with this story, ya never know who’s going to turn up!)

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    jrankin1959  almost 10 years ago

    BOOM! Nice little twist!

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    trimguy  almost 10 years ago

    If those cell phone photos are Instagramed, Tracy should be there rather quickly ;)

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    mzkdad  almost 10 years ago

    I got curious about “Sivad” in the last panel, and found he was a Memphis TV horror host. http://nmisscommentor.com/random-firings/good-evening-i-am-sivad-your-monster-of-cerermonies/

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    Paul1963  almost 10 years ago

    Got to the last panel and a studio audience in my head erupted into prolonged cheers (you know, like audiences do when the favorite character or beloved guest-star comes onstage).

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    On the original 13 GHOSTS OF SCOOBY-DOO, Mr. Vincent Price provided his own voice.

    For the recent SCOOBY DOO: MYSTERY, INC. series, Van Ghoul was re-imagined as a horror movie actor of great renown, and was voiced by PINKY AND THE BRAIN’s Maurice LeMarche …

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    Mr. Vincent Price was kind to every living creature.

    Even frogs …

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    And let us not forget Mr. Vincent Price’s portrayal of the villainous Egghead on the Adam West BATMAN series.

    Music, please?

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    Somewhere, there’s a clip of Mr. Vincent Price’s 1960’s appearance on THE MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, where he engages Dr. Frederick Wertham in a remarkably civil debate over the influence of media upon the general masses …

    … as one Mr. Adam West looks on with considerable amusement.

    Couldn’t find it though, so you’ll have to settle for this …

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    AnyFace  almost 10 years ago

    And back around to one Mr. Boris Karloff, in the role of Baron Von Frankenstein …

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    phinnmam  almost 10 years ago

    The only thing that could top Sara’s appearance is the strip would be an a cameo by Bela Lugosi Jr.!

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    mumbles  almost 10 years ago

    Maybe Sara will arrest gruesome and end this already too-long tale.

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    LittleIggy  almost 10 years ago

    Nobody notices his Peter Lorre lookalike friend?

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    tsull2121  almost 10 years ago

    Ok, I was along for the ride from the beginning, but Kandikane Lane veered me off early. Vitamin, tho brought it back on track for me…like ive said before im big vitamin fan anyway… then kandikane called her “sister” margot lane and name dropped their OTHER “sister” lois lane.. which ran it right back into absurdity for me… but the play within a comic strip angle IS entertaining so i hung around.. then we gt the karloff/lorre tandem which was fun in the beginning but wears thin REALLY REALLY QUICK!

    the nitrate brother and sister returned which is nice, then they talk about gravel gertie’s previously unknown/unmentioned sister (do you see a pattern forming here?) and the nitrates fade away

    then we get a glimpse of junior and sparkle on their way to spit out honeymoon’s (either( little brother or sister (agaiin the family thing!) while juniors father and mother are involved in an explosion at the theater.

    MEANWHILE instead of trying to make a clean getaway, gruesome and (not such an) einstein make a sidetrip to monster con where gruesome is insulted (or maybe not) by karloff’s DAUGHTER (again, the family connection) instead of getting out of dodge.

    sorry, this whole thing careened into ridiculousness for me a few days ago and i am looking forward to the eventual “Sweatbox Ending” which i am sure is just around the corner

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    tsull2121  almost 10 years ago

    Ok, I was along for the ride from the beginning, but Kandikane Lane veered me off early. Vitamin, tho brought it back on track for me…like ive said before im big vitamin fan anyway… then kandikane called her “sister” margot lane and name dropped their OTHER “sister” lois lane.. which ran it right back into absurdity for me… but the play within a comic strip angle IS entertaining so i hung around.. then we gt the karloff/lorre tandem which was fun in the beginning but wears thin REALLY REALLY QUICK!

    the nitrate brother and sister returned which is nice, then they talk about gravel gertie’s previously unknown/unmentioned sister (do you see a pattern forming here?) and the nitrates fade away

    then we get a glimpse of junior and sparkle on their way to spit out honeymoon’s (either( little brother or sister (agaiin the family thing!) while juniors father and mother are involved in an explosion at the theater.

    MEANWHILE instead of trying to make a clean getaway, gruesome and (not such an) einstein make a sidetrip to monster con where gruesome is insulted (or maybe not) by karloff’s DAUGHTER (again, the family connection) instead of getting out of dodge.

    sorry, this whole thing careened into ridiculousness for me a few days ago and i am looking forward to the eventual “Sweatbox Ending” which i am sure is just around the corner

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    MJ Premium Member almost 10 years ago

    Wow! I never would have noticed “Sivad.” The clip of his intro was fascinating. You just never thing of monsters with a southern accent, you know? Romanian? Sure. British? Why not? But Tennessee?!?

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    Morrow Cummings  almost 10 years ago

    SIVAD! Not too many people alive remember Sivad! I was a freshman at a small university 55 years ago 600 miles from where I lived and every Saturday night we’d watch him on Memphis TV. His station breaks were skits that were so corny, they’d crack you up! No way he could have made it nationally, as he ad-libbed his schtick much of the time. Strictly a local star, he was on WHBQ-TV and you can see some of his skits if you Google his name.

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    HAL69  almost 10 years ago

    (in my Linus from “It’s a Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” mode)Pequod! Where are you??(hope you are doing okay, btw)

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    Tarry Plaguer  almost 10 years ago

    If you are interested in learning more about Mike Curtis you may find this interview he did, shortly before starting this strip, of some interest.Mike Curtis interview with Dr. Gangrene

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