Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 01, 2020

Good morning™, sammich-eaters!

It’s actually good to see Sam munching on the job. That’s how he started out in the strip. That patrol car is seriously retro! I’m not sure how Tracy is so convinced that it’s connected to the theatre.

Well, the mayoral question is resolved.

Time period now well before the current her honor.

Good morning™, magic trick unravelers !

Looking mighty smug in P.2 aren’t you Dicky ?  Will Vitamin be lying prone bereft of life or tied up and stashed ?

Unless their department was defunded and they had to revert back to old cars, this adventure is not taking place in the modern day.

Sam’s feelings were hurt when he heard that we thought that he looked too skinny yesterday. He’s having a sammich as they drive.

“Hey, Tracy, we’re in the Bizzarro world, right?”

“Looks like it.”

“Okay. How long have we been working together?”

“As long as I can remember.”

“Me too. That’s a pretty long time for two guys to partner together. To be so close together…to share long lonely night stakeouts…to pull bullets out of each others bum…”

“Sam, why did you put the soundtrack to ‘BrokeBack Mountain’ into the eight track player?”

“I think that it’s time that I told you…”

“Hang on to that thought, Sam. We’re here at the theatre. Maybe later.”

“Sigh…”

Is Sam eating a Pop Tart…?

Eck! No wonder Sam’s losing weight! Someone get him a home-cooked meal, stat! Meanwhile, Tracy’s holding a steering wheel that isn’t attached to anything.

Vitamin running that theatre is current continuity. But the way that squad is drawn, especially with Tracy and Sam not being in seat belts, it does look like something from the forties.

“The name Presto. The fantastic claim. It’s like some elaborate magic trick.”

We see why you’re the ace detective there, Richard.

These temps didn’t do their research. Unless you call copying the Dick Tracy movie’s cop car toy research.

Wowie zowie, kids. Talk about time-binding! Sam became Tracy’s partner only after Pat Patton (now Chief of Police). Vitamin and the theatre is more like current times except that the venue in question is the Armstrong [pre-Mayor Armstrong] rather than the Patterson. But that squadrol-like patrol car? What became of the “undercover VW” they were driving? That black-and-white is a real throwback to earliest Tracy times—maybe late 1930s. Anyway, Tracy does ’have a clue" of sorts, which is a step in the right direction. With only 4 or 5 more strips for this Minit Mystery, he needs to get moving!

Ok. Joe, Mike or whoever is in charge. Next time you have a guest artist have a little chat with them about what is expected of the artwork.

SAM: Don’t look now but your hat has been stolen too. DT: WHAT?!?

SAM: That could be a good thing though. I gotta tip from my snitch… DT: Everybody knows it’s that Gweedo guy. Just call him Gweedo.

SAM: Yeah, fine. Gweedo said find the hats and you find the statue.

DT: Hmmmm. So they’re connected. Interesting. A statue stealing hat thief. There can’t be many crooks with that M.O. To the station house! Say. How about giving me the second Pop Tart? I know from experience that they come two to a pack.

SAM: This IS the second one. DT: Dammit.

I think it’s a fine thing that a Jewish person is featured in a famous comic strip. I think that may be why we never see Sam in the Saturday strips. Well, rarely anyway. And while the Star of David on the car seems to be unnecessary, it was the final piece of the puzzle for me proving that Sam is Jewish. Shalom Sam.

Editor’s Note: The above is offered as an attempt at entertainment and while I see nothing offensive in it, if anyone did take offense, tough ti… I mean, I’m sincerely sorry

nice to see that Sam got the Jewish community to pay for the paint job on the car ;)

BTW, either Sammy-Boy’s been picking his nose frequently, or panel two is just a goofy rendition of nostrils ;) lol

Only in the fantasy world of Trump would anyone in their right mind would consider defunding Police. How about the Fire Dpt.? Defund them too? How about the Military?

Folks, that ain’t the Star of David.

This storyline is like Tracy’s car … going nowhere … very slowly…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSOTfLFVwc

Looks like the same crew that draws the Mr. Bean animated series.

PT Cruisers for cop cars? Cool!