Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for July 19, 2020

Searching high and searching low

On the roof and down below

Rumors of a hidden stash

Gold or jewels or maybe cash.

Viller said this was his bank

Riding high until he sank

A secret place? An unknown room?

Stooge won’t talk. He met his doom.

Elsewhere, Dethany’s homesick

Thought this job would wrap up quick

To Tracyville she had to roam

Leave behind her Guy and home.

Gun fire was unexpected

Thoughts of flight she has rejected

Though her heart’s not in this town

She trusts Dick Tracy of renown.

Good morning™, the frustrated and lonely !

Time for those boys to break out the axes and crowbars. If that man is French is it pronounced Ghee ?

Neil not being here has caused me to have to break out the “TM” and the header line. I am spoiled on ‘copy & paste’. ;-)

Hotel Eisner? Yeah, that’s the spirit.

Just a reminder: Remember the Alamo! Bexar County is the home of San Antonio, Texas.

Geography lesson out.

Today’s On The Fastrack looks ‘fillerish’.

https://www.comicskingdom.com/on-the-fastrack

Good morning™, everyone!

I’m finally here. I guess nobody noticed that they spelled “Viller” as “Villar” in the first panel on the second row. Also, the date in the middle of the second row is a month ago. That’s easy to slip up on when you prepare the art a month in advance like they do and aren’t paying close attention. There was one other time when the wrong date appeared on a Sunday strip. TCA got it fixed, but GoComics always runs the un-revised versions when there are last-minute changes.

So, I guess Dethany’s fiancé, Guy Wyre, is back at Fastrack doing his night shift security guard duties for the mostly empty building. Maybe he’s just about the only one there these days.

Bet you an ice cream cone

When this is done you’ll cry and moan

When the news the bank they find

Only held wealth of a different kind

Then on we’ll trod and ahead we’ll go

With empty hands and nothing to show

Awwwww. Dethany is alone in her hotel room at night and thinks about Guy, whom she misses so much. It’s so sweet and intimate to see ♡.

There may have been a run on this particular bank

Joe’s drawing of the Hotel Eisner, is a fine tribute to Eisner’s style.

I want to see them hunting diligently around the room, never noticing a big W on the wall behind them.

1-PIERCING SCREAM: OOOOOOOH. DON’T STOP! HOWDY DOOGIE: HEY! What was that?

2-SHAGGY: I don’t know but it came from that directon!

3-From the fleabag next door DETH WARMEDOVER: Oooh. That was nice…

4-…Was it good for you Guy that came with the picture frame I bought.

5-I…I have something to tell you though. I went on a date tonight. With who? That doesn’t matter. It does? All right. Calm down! His name is Dick Tracy. It meant nothing. Who was I thinking of, when we were making love last night?* FINE! IT WAS DICK. ARE YOU SATISFIED NOW???

Texas Tornadoes featuring Freddie Fender lyric.

3/4 of today’s offering, courtesy of… YESTERDAY!

Hotel Eisner? Oh, right… Michael Eisner was the head of Disney when they made the “Dick Tracy” movie!

Exciting

Theory of the day: Stooge had some gold bricks painted to look like real bricks and built into a wall. Howdy…wannabe Shaggy…loses the flashlights and break out the sledgehammers!

Mmm, Dethany in sleepwear.

Been away for a while and am delighted to return to:

Stooges, Crooks, Thugs, Goons and Mooks, Oh My!

By gar, by gar…

I have been reading the Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy and have and have read the first 28 volumes, and will get the final one in December. Now THOSE are excellent. Dick Locher was okay, not great but he gave us closure on Big Boy and killed off Moon Maid (sadly). I read those (and have read 1-27 twice) and I am grieved by what I see here. I am sorely tempted to just give up. The present series involves a ridiculous character, and Stooge Villar’s grandson? Great grandson, more like and still too young! Shame the series dying out this way.

Howdy and pseudo-Shaggy are two dolts. They have no plan for finding the “treasure” except to spend (waste) countless hours just looking around, and not very carefully, in the old warehouse.

Meanwhile, melancholic Dethany beds down in the Hotel Eisner, an homage to The Spirit, who appeared in a crossover here, and to his creator, Will Eisner, one of the standout Greats of comics history, while thinking of her fiance, Guy….

Different moods for different folks….

Michael?

This Ice Cream guy is gonna die of Diabetes.