Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 25, 2021

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    Neil Wick  over 2 years ago

    Good morning™, recovery crew!

    Well, there’s finally no doubt that Little Notting is dead. That’s the end of one of Gould’s old-time characters. If the new management is a takeover from within, that’s why they recognized him.

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    AnyFace  over 2 years ago
    ”And Another One Bites The Dust …” ✨
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    Ashmael  over 2 years ago

    Guess who the new Apparatus’ leader is. BB Eyes maybe?

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    boboscar  over 2 years ago

    My crazy theory is that Notting’s killer and replacement is none other than Specs, who made his debut in early 2016 in the same story to feature Notting’s return. He’s somebody Notting would know and have reason to try to kill, he’s somebody within the Apparatus they would know, we never fully saw his face, just like the current “Ace”, and his girlfriend Spicy could be the one providing him with insider information on Diet Smith Industires.

    Just a crazy theory. We’ll know within a few weeks how close or far it is from the truth.

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    Gweedo -it's legal here- Murray  over 2 years ago

    Good morning™, one card short of a deck !

    Sam is looking a bit wistful. Was there a “connection” that is not talked about ?  Do Tracy’s closed eyes in P.3 mean he is taking a micro snooze ?  If he can sleep on his feet without toppling he’s one (two feet) up on me.

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    Jab Jr 1957  over 2 years ago

    Does anyone know where avenger09 is lately? He hasn’t posted in a while and I miss sparring with him.

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    22ph  over 2 years ago

    Is Little Notting related to the Shaky family? He is a little bit trembly in the monitor.

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    fredville  over 2 years ago

    Why not use the time drone to find out?

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Who is the guy in panel 2?

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    Kip Williams  over 2 years ago

    So that’s what became of Cello-Face.

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    Another Take  over 2 years ago

    1-CHIEF: Whadayr doin’ back in here no for, Tracy? DT: I need to tell you about Sam’s fixation on Little Knothead

    2-…I think he’s smitten. He just stares at his picture for hours on end…

    3-…Should we send Sam back to Gay Conversion Therapy Camp?

    CHIEF: NO YOU DUNCE! Sam is going undercover as Knothead. He’s just trying to memorize all of Knothead’s mannerisms!

    DT: Hmmmm. Did I forget to tell you that Knothead is dead? I definitely told Sam.

    CHIEF: One – TRACY YOU IDIOT. Two – Yeah, better send Sam back to camp for a refresher. Find one where they use a Bible like we use a phone book in the Interrogation Room. Maybe they’ll smack his genetic material straight – so to speak.

    DT: Good idea Chief. Like we say in the I.R. – THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE or at least a confession will, we promise!

    DT & CHIEF: HAR HAR HAR!

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    tripwire45  over 2 years ago

    Crime easily solved by Diet’s time device.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 2 years ago

    Stop the presses! If the new Ace of Spades is running the Apparatus, why did he go to them as though he were an outsider? And who is Grumpy Grouch with the cigar?

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 2 years ago

    This guy Notting had an “A” branded in his forehead? Who are these people…human beings or livestock?

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 2 years ago

    “The Apparatus would never hand the reins over to an outsider”. Oh they are able to replenish their numbers like that via births or adoptions?

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    Ray Toler  over 2 years ago

    During the entire original 52 Gang story, Ace kept his identity a secret. Tracy infiltrated the gang by posing as the 10 of Spades. He acted as if he had larangytis to disguise his voice. The gang had a hideout on a mesa in South Dakota (similar to Devil’s Tower).

    The Space Coupe had been stolen by King and Ace. They had also kidnapped Dyne O’Matik (inventor of the Space Coupe) as a pilot. While disguised, Tracy went with King of Spades and Ace on a mission in the Space Coupe to buy a supply of Narcotics. Once they got aboard and got airborn, Tracy revealed himself and took charge. There was a fight and King was ejected into space and died but Ace was captured.

    Back at headquarters Ace was unmasked and the readers saw his face for the first time.

    https://i.postimg.cc/5tT6VL2W/19620826-52-Club-1st-Space-Coupe-19621121.jpg

    The 52 Gang story was also the first Space Coupe story. I read this story when it originally appeared in the newspaper and I was a mere youth.

    I actually thought at first when I read it that his name was “Little Nothing,” which seemed proper by the way the Chief described him with an inferiority complex.

    He immediately ratted out his gang and was even taken with Tracy to the Mesa in a police helicopter where he gave orders for his gang to give up over the copter’s loudspeaker…they didn’t give up but that’s another story.

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    IvanB.Cohen  over 2 years ago

    His (Notting’s) murder came from within the ranks? Nah…they had a coup d’e tat…the Apparatus…maybe the deceased turned down their retirement package.

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    ScottHolman  over 2 years ago

    Is there a story to any of this?

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    WilliamVollmer  over 2 years ago

    Why are the monitors in the squad room so oddly shaped? Are they leftover prototyprs from Diet Smith’s lab people?

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    BreathlessMahoney77  over 2 years ago

    I could use Diet Smith’;s time drone to figure out today’s strip. Panel 1 presumably takes place some time before Panel 2, when Tracy fills the Chief in on Little Notta’s fate (Tracy wouldn’t say both Notta’s disappeared & that his body turned up in the same conversation, that makes no sense) but then Panel 3 seems to take place right after Panel 1. Is everyone as confused as I am?

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    Tracy’s chat with Chief Patton leaves him on the track of the Apparatus. The Apparatus, embodied in New Ace, is on the track of the Time Drone. And so the entanglement shows us the path forward in this convoluted epic. It remains to be seen how, or if, Rikki’s pregnancy ties in also….

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