Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for October 03, 2021

Money hidden in a vault. Ozone was so tight lipped

Never told a single soul. The Time Drone is equipped

To take a peek at long ago, reveal the hidden treasure

None shall be the wiser as we gain wealth beyond measure.

To master time shall make our crime a secret violation

The underworld our shiny pearl. Pure gold our reputation.

To search through lost time the perfect crime. None shall be the wiser

As rich as kings! Delights and flings! No need to be a miser.

To use Smith’s toy for our own joy a plan I do endorse

Wealth so vast is sure to last and trickle down of course.

Good morning™, everyone!

As Diet Smith continues to accumulate demos of the Time Drone, the Ace of Spades continues to accumulate ideas on how he can profit from it.

The Neki Hokey Boys (1955) were not able to profit from their father’s legacy, but Ace intends to add it to his long list of fortunes to exploit.

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Golly Mr. Wilson, team Tracy sure knows how to waste a valuable Sunday on trivial yak yak yak! If this keeps up I might not come back!(wouldn’t YOU like that???)

What an amazing discovery! The crowd at Washington’s inauguration look more like pilgrams with their footwear!

“I understood that I was to be a whip-wielding thug meant to look menacing and alternately intrigue and creep out the receptionist. I am not prepared to think about lists. Thank you and good day. Whip crack”

The time drone doubles as a high-powered smokeless ashtray so no smoke-filled rooms for Diet. Surely another reason Ace wants to steal it.

So now Doubleup knows the plan. I wonder what he’d do with a time drone. Would he want more than treasure? Could he turn against Ace and tell the cops what’s going on? Doubleup always struck me as someone who thought more deeply about things than your average crook and may realize just how much damage could be done with a time machine.

Good morning™, time bandits !

I wonder if that thing broadcasts audio along with the “live” action vid.

I thought Doubleup was a reformed criminal. I guess not, guess not.

And I wonder how Black Jack fits into all of this?

The time drone would make a neat Christmas ornament, don’t you think?

Ugh. Time Drones! The world’s lousy with them! You can’t go outside without beaning your head on one or having to wave a bunch of them away like flies. Heck, my neighbor and his wife got electrocuted when some perv tried to sneak a Time Drone in their pool! And apparently they’re all the same one that keeps getting stolen or something?

(Unrelated, but I’m 39 today. Not bad for someone who didn’t think he’d see 36.)

“Tracy’s Hall of Creators” is a new title for that feature, I think. Since tomorrow is the anniversary date of the publication of the first strip, it seems appropriate to feature Chester Gould, who started it all.

The anniversary is near!!!

Sixty years ago, UPA butchered the strip by creating an animated series about Tracy with Asian and Mexican stereotypes.

I wonder if Doubleup is having second thoughts.

Diet Smith only sticks to well known events. How about solving at least one mystery for the demonstration, such as identifying Jack the Ripper?

The Ace is Doubling Down on Doubleup Doubleup

It has always been my contention that, if time travel was really possible, at least half the crowd at historic events are actually time-traveling tourists.

Smith claimed that many paintings showed the drone at different times in history. So the thing is visible when it appears. There were a bunch of people at Washington’s inauguration. Don’t you think a flying red saucer would have stopped the ceremony? Wouldn’t someone have mentioned this in writing the story of the inauguration?

This is an old DC comics dream sequence. Someone wake up the writer.

That stylized A on the Ace of Spades looks more like a Cyrillic Д (that’s a D, or Delta).

Maybe a clue to his identity? Has Дick Tracy taken over the Apparatus? Wouldn’t that be cool?

Be thankful we aren’t relying on Comics Kingdom for Tracy everyday. They have updated any of their strips for today.

ka-hokey

I thought you were going back to Ford’s Theater in 1845… miss the day?

I haven’t been following the comments for this story, but…

Has anybody yet referenced Asimov’s story “The Dead Past”? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past

Asimov saw potential problems with time viewers, but his story did not mention criminal possibilities, just social ones.

Huh! I didn’t know there was a list?

Remember what happened to Geraldo Rivera? If these guys find the vault and it turns out to be empty, they could call it “Al Capozone’s Vault.”

http://instantrimshot.com/

“The Rise of the Obese Daleks”

“Consume-inate!”

One of the lost Doctor Who episodes that should remain that way.

“Ultimately? I want to know — I MUST know — who wrote the book of love!”

39?? You’ve caught up to Jack Benny at last!!

It’s time to play Detect the Drone :

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I couldn’t find it. Can you?

Ace of Spades is in true form today " Niki, Niki, Niki Hoeky, Your pappy’s doing time in the pokey, Your sisters on a trip, Your momma got hip, Little boy you’re lookin’ ok, You ooh boog-a-boo you, You ooh boog-boo you, little boy, Get hip to the consultation of the boolawee"…

Amazing…..Diet Smith and Ace of Spades are going to do for cigars what Tracy and the MCU do for coffee….wonder if they both smoke Montecristo’s, American Rebel or Henry Clay.

What list is this Ace of Spades? The list of people you are going contact? Or the list of fortunes and their locations? I ask Ace of Spades because I cannot read your mind.

For Teddy Roosevelt, it was speak softy and carry a big stick. For Doubleup, it is speak a thing into existence twice and carry a bullwhip.

I thought the name George Ozone was meant to sound like another billionaire, who, last I heard, was still living.

1-DOIT: OMG! IS THAT A KORAN???

2-…This thing could change the fabric of the entire country! QUICK! ORDER 100,000 PRAYER RUGS AND GET ‘EM ON THE SHELVES ASAP!

3-RATFACE: See how much easier it is to just have a playing card as your criminal signature?

4-…You on the other hand are always dragging around that stupid whip, Doesn’t it get awkward holding that while you’re trying to get little whippy out at the urinal?

WHIPPY: A little. But how does a lousy playing card protect you when you’re attacked?

5-RATFACE: Seriously? Have you never seen those guys on Johnny Carson reruns flinging cards that cut vegetables and stuff in two?

WHIPPY: I ain’t never been attacked by a vegetable.

RATFACE: It’s coming. Tomorrow is Dick Tracy’s 90th birthday – HAR HAR HAR!!! GET IT?BECAUSE HE’LL BE SEN..

WHIPPY: Yeah. I got it. Geez…

You don’t the time drone for Ozone’s vault. Just Geraldo Rivera.

How about October 12, 1931 Ninety years ago?

If Tracy aged only one year every four since 1931 when he was 21 he’d be about 46 years old which he appears to be now.

Diet Smith continues to amass evidence that the Time Drone really works for eventual release to the press. But isn’t he au courant enough to know that all his videos could be challenged as “deep fakes” with AI these days?!

Meanwhile, Ace of Spades plots out yet more potential hidden treasure recoverable once he controls the Time Drone, sharing all with Doubleup, sharing all with Doubleup….

I’ll have to admit that I like daily depiction of Doubleup, that of the Sunday depiction. He looks more distinguished in the daily.

I’ve been trying to tell the Wiki/Fandom crowd for years that George Ozone was a villain.

He ordered three contract killings to keep the location of the milk can fortune a secret;andtwo were successful.

Mumbles also hinted his fourth wife met an unnatural end at his hands.