Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 20, 2022

Clark Kent!

Good morning™, everyone!

Readers of the last 10 years will remember who CK is who meets Tracy on the roof. I’m not going to spoil it yet.

Good morning™, Cinnamon Knights ?!

Could also be Clark Kent. He may need superman’s help on this one. Supes can patrol from the air while looking, super range, and listening, super hearing, for anything that smacks of what this almost Luther like intellect is saying or doing for a tip off. Should he make the collar or let Dick and Sam handle it ?  Too much other people doing their work might render them obsolete.

Sam’s such a wiseguy! The nerve of him, giving Tracy the middle finger!!

I THOUGHT it might be Clark , but I believe you have hit on it… I forgot about Cinnamon Knight…

Calvin Klein?

Third rate romance, low rent rendezvous.

C.K.: “Bat signal’s broken.”

Tracy: “Again!? I just put in a new bulb last week!”

C.K.: “What can I say? If you did your job better, we wouldn’t need to keep calling the Batman all the time.”

Hmm, for some reason, I’m having a taste for Cinnamin rolls. But if you have some by a river, watch out for Piranha, especially the Black kind.

Well, Good Knight, everybody.

Clever of Sam to print it with LARGE TYPE so Tracy didn’t need his reading glasses.

Detective Tracy,We must meet urgently. Time is of the essence, which is why I’m sending this meeting request by mail. We cannot afford to delay even a moment, so please meet me on the rooftop later this weekend during the evening. Please hurry when appropriate. Also, I hope you can guess which rooftop I’m referring to, as I am unable to specify the location due to limited page space and my use of size 72 font.Love,One of many people you probably know with the initials C.K.

Batman!

Also, copy this letter and send it to a thousand friends who will subsequently break off contact with you for doing so. Failure to comply will banish you to a revival of EEK AND MEEK for all eternity. Have a lovely day!

Wuold that be ‘Crazed Killer’?

Rooftop meeting? Midnight? CK? Is the Cinnamon Knight back?

Calvin Klein!

I told you that was Cinnamon Knight and Black Piranha the other day at the ATM

This message has a large font size. Very considerate of the sender. Some correspondence gets sent out with their contents so small that it takes a colony of ants to read it.

C.K. Very i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t-i-n-g, another outside source. Why does this person have to meet with Tracy on a rooftop?

And what rooftop? Person’s place of employment?

There is a bat-man in Rex Morgan today.

I hope that CK isn’t Clark Kent.

Very interesting….C.K.?

When Mike brings back characters from a previous story, he usually brings back the whole bunch…Don’t I recall that some time ago Tracy attended the parole hearing of Broadway Bates out of the blue and irrelevant to the current story? Didn’t Belle get taken to the hospital with severe wounds and we were not told what happened to her? It doesn’t seem like the police academy had a new recruit, does it? It seems that I recall that there were a few loose ends back then.

OK. It’s urgent so he sends the note via snail mail which under DeJoy would probably be delivered late or not at all. Yeah. Makes sense…

1-SAM: Hey Tracy…

2-…Here’s a note for you. Cheryl passed it to me in Crime Scene Class this morning. Say, did you know that you’re not supposed to put evidence from a crime scene in your suit jacket. That includes things like receipts! Who knew, am I right?

3-DT: Crap. I think I got her pregnant. I’m sure I did. I think we did that thing that makes babies. Wait! Rooftop eh? A little slip will care of that problem… HEY SAM – DID YOU READ THIS?

SAM: You know I can’t read. You ding me every year on my Annual Review about that.

DT: Good, Sam…very good…

SAM: Really? FINALLY! ♫ I’M GETTING’ A RAISE! I’M GETTING’ A RAISE! ♫

The very moniker that popped into my head, Brian!!

MOVIE QUOTE—-“Attention!Will everyone move to the lounge who isn’t carrying a bomb!”

Robert Hays—AIRPLANE 2—1982

Everybody but the kitchen sink in this story so far.I agree t hat it’s the Paprika Prince or something similar.

And it was said in 1932 and I’ll say it again—“Of all the $$^&$&..ing amateurs,Bates,YOU’RE IT!!”

SO urgent that they sent a letter…

Well,Curtis is doing a great job of keeping us confused.In four days he’s shifted the focus of the story four times.

Be with us on Sunday,when Tracy is invited to join JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK.Anybody who looks that good after 90 years has to be a sorcerer.

Dear Dmitrio:

Please drop the block.I fail to see what useful purpose it is serving.I only want to help.

Wait, I think CK is Comics Kingdom. They are trying to lure this strip over to their site!

Having forgotten the character, but having my memory jogged by comments here, I agree with those who believe “CK” is none other than the Cinnamon Knight, who has been on hiatus (as they say) for ten years. I wonder if he has remained trim in the way that Tracy does. And can Black Piranha be far behind?

But what have these vigilantes got to offer in the developing case of portly Hypno-Guy? I guess we’ll find out “Saturday night”….

Fan mail from some flounder?

Was trying to find information on the Cinnamon Knight, but all that keeps coming up is links to Cinnamon Buns. Now I’m hungry.