Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for December 17, 2020

Oops.

Good morning™, all!

Awww, snap! I don’t think he meant to do that, but I think that confirms the end of Dollar Bill!

“Another one bites the dust!”

Good morning™, crackers !

Oh, Snap !  I can’t wait to see Aquarius’s reaction to this.

I think it is not competition that Pouch dislike, he probably doesn’t want drug dealers in his park.

I hate it when that happens…..

I’m not sure, but I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen even a minor vulgarity such as “crap” used in a Dick Tracy comic

Them’s the breaks, Bill. Should’a cashed in and taken a blow when you had the chance.

Pick up the dollar bill, make it look like a robbery.

This puts Pouch in a fine mess…..he obviously would know what went on THERE….

Somebody got a bit over zealous with the ’’sleeper’’ hold.

My God.

Something tells me that was a bloody snap.

Narrator: There is one terrifying word in the world of nuclear physics…

Servo: “Oops”.

Narrator: …“radiation”.

Servo: Oh.

The buck stops here.

“Get the Rice Krispies bakers in here for questioning..”.

That face. Why does it make me think of La Starr’s Hank.

Over zealous he was, oops!!!

The dollar bill falling is all the clue Tracy will need in the absence of a body. He will instantly know that Dollar Bill was killed in the Park, by Tiger Lilly, with a candlestick. (Sam will meanwhile be looking for Col. Mustard in the library.)

Dang, not again. Oh well. Tell me about the rabbits, George.

Who grabbed the dollar?

OOps! Don’t know my own strength!

“George, he don’t move no more.”

One more scumbucket off the face of the planet.

Bad break

Drug induced osteoporosis.

GASP! He’s wearing sandals in the snow!

1-SUMMER O. LOVE: OUCH, OUCH, OUCH! FRENCHY: Too tight? SUMMER: NO! YOUR CIGAR IS BURNING ME!

2-FRENCHY: See? You don’t need music to dance. Get ready! I’m gonna twirl…

3-…ya. Hmmm. Oh. I see the problem. Sandals. Ere’ body knows you can’t dance in sandals.

(gasp) He swore!

Snap…crackle…crap!

“Aw, crap”?Chester Gould never wrote dialogue like THIS!!!!

Evidently, the lessons from that mail-order chiropractor school didn’t take.

Pouch told him not to hang around in the park. See how dangerous it could be?

Now what to do with the body?

Lilly needs to go home ASAP. He is not even from Tracyville.

He’s dead, Jim

That guy needs to have those moles checked out by a dermatologist.

Thank goodness he didn’t decide to go for the obvious pun, “Oh, SNAP!”

Great art, though most hippies would be rocking the wool socks and sandals look in the snow.

I’m working from memory, but I don’t think the original Tiger Lilly killed anyone. So this rehash went bad. BTW, nice deep analysis Neil.

Who is this guy? I like him already!

Pop goes the weasel.

he’s in sandals in the snow?

No, no: “Snap!” It’s a happy sound! Snap is the happiest sound I’ve found.

“Snap!” There goes another Dollar Bill man!

So, what did Tiger Lilly expect, putting that neck-snapping hold on Bill (panel 1)? —That his head would just freely revolve like the possessed’s in The Exorcist?Maybe the “Aw, crap!” simply signifies that Pouch told to tune up Bill’s attitude, not to kill him. Now, he’ll have to answer to Pouch, dispose of the body, maybe take over Bill’s distribution job….

Gees, a little gruesome for a present day Tracy strip, moving in the right direction, do I see a bit of a grin on Chesters face?

Oh, we’ve all been there at some point, haven’t we? A service that gets rid of bodies for crooks would clean up more than corpses in Tracyville.