Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 23, 2020

… and then there were two. ✨

And the trouble starts, big time!

Ooh, gosh! As Blowtop would say.

Good morning™, deja vu-ers!

Not at all what Shaky’s nephew Shaky was expecting!

“Thank God it all happened while I was at school. Icould never have called Shaky ‘daddy’ " Breathless talking of her mom’s marriage to Shaky

Good morning™, boobs… errr, I mean..

Hard to keep my mind on this case with so many distractions. I wonder if she’s going to let him labor under that delusion ?

The Shaky meets the Shapley! What’s next?

That shook him…

Reminds me of when I was mistaken for, get this, an ex-teacher, three schoolmates, the Go-Go’s drummer, and Charlene Tilton.

Nice figure, shame about the face.

ZZZZZZZZ as the cartoon turns!!!

Good thing the elevator is clearly marked. I’d hate to get on the horizontal elevator when I was looking for the vertical elevator.

He can’t take his eyes off of…well, you know.

1-DRIVER: You’ll find Ms Fortune in 2313. The door will be open because her frequent visitors have broken the hinges. Just walk in – she’s expecting you – or someone. Or anyone…

2-FORTUNE: Good of you to come up to see me sometime.

JAY BOGART: MAE WEST! I’ve never seen you in color before.

FORTUNE: I’m NOT her but I was looking forward to using the “is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me” line. However, it appears that jail changes a man.

JAY: Yeah, well, you know, they…they put that saltpeter in all the food and show us those Army VD movies a lot and they tear out the good pictures in the National Geographics before they give them…

FORTUNE: NEVER MIND!!! Just send the Bellhop up on your way out! I know he’ll “be glad to see me!”

Fortuna’s looking good.

Any idea when Strawberry Hellcat will be back? By gar, by gar!

A few days back when Broadway Bates was trying to get parole, we were discussing how The Penguin was preceded by Bates by over a decade. Bob Kane’s plagiarism was well-known. I came across this video on YouTube that discusses how Kane basically stole everything about Batman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NzMPTNC3x0

Shaky is alll shook up at the vision of “Breathless Mahoney”!

At least we know Fortuna is a convincing lookalike. Unfortunately, we still know very little else….