Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for May 01, 2023

“I’m sorry Chief. What does this have to do with chickens? Try to stay focused!”

Now it’s Pat’s turn to give a history lesson!

Who’s the gray guy in panel 3?

A whole week of a ridiculous chicken story that served no purpose.

Good morning™, war games !

I find this history lesson informative and it does bear a connection back to our modern day Game boy.

Did they give them to Axis POWs too?

So, what will Tracy do with this information? Maybe set up a trap for Gameboy … advertise that an actual Monopoly game used to aid P.O.W.s during WWII will be on a special display somewhere. Then, stake the place out & hope that Gameboy takes the bait, comes out of his parent’s basement, & then they can catch him. Of course, they’d have to have better luck than the last time they tried to catch Gameboy in a stake-out.

I apologize in advance to all the Shellheads out there, but it seems like Shelley got lazy with the buildings outside Pat’s window.

Where’s the chook? /s ;p

I like this historical data, thank you

This is really a cool fact, but it’s still a reach, Chief.

Didn’t Dick actually fight the Nazis way back in the day?

The most useful thing included in the game was the Get Out of Jail Free cards.

Now I can see where this plot thread might be going.

This appears to be real. I would like to know how they hid the stuff, since I’m sure the Nazis didn’t just let people hand boxes to prisoners, and they would have to be VERY hidden. And it includes a file.

I hardly believe that stuff like that got by the camp personnel…….but just.hardly…….

Didn’t Tracy ever read the Great Escape?

Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz just have to be part of this.

Well, at least we’re learning more about old board games. That’s something.

after a week of Mike’s chickenschitt storyline, the story finallyINCHES forward…

molasses is STILL faster than this lava flow…

interesting factoid about the Great Monopoly Escape though… IF factual and/or accurate..

A really cool piece of history here!

1-CHIEF: Did I ever tell you about the time I successfully made it across No Mans’ Land to surrender to the Hun? DT: More times than I can count, Chief.

2-CHIEF: So, there I was – safe from the gas and artillery and winning a fortune in Monopoly money which the other lads said they’d turn into good ol’ American dollars after the war ended WHEN…

3-…Pee-Air figured out how I had rigged the game… DT: Yeah, I know – by always being the banker and sneaking… CHIEF: …by always being the banker and sneaking money out of it when I got low on cash. They thought they’d punished me by not taking me along when they escaped! Well, they kinda did as solo Monopoly wasn’t much fun.

DT: Just like your story. CHIEF: Huh? DT: Huh?

Pow Monopoly? Is that when you get frustrated and paste the good on? Or is that Hertzdonut?

Is, perchance, a CHICKEN one of the tokens?

Never knew that if true amazing

Somewhere in Tracy land, a vintage Monopoly game from World War II is available. I am surprised it is not on EBay.

I take the weekend away and come back to find that we actually took a reprieve away from that annoying chicken and the cute girl.

I’m fascinated with WWII, but it’s an odd element in the story so far. After a week of stagnation, maybe the story will pick up again?

I’ve found loads of information about this, and thanks to @niel Wick for the Snoops link too. The only problem I have is, does anyone know of a picture of the actual game and the ‘red dot on the free parking’ section? I work at a local Goodwill, and we get in a lot of MOnolopy games. The oldest I saw was a 1952 game.

Sorry, Chief, The goodies were not in Red Cross packages. They were in packages from other charities often with fake names and vacant lot addresses. See the book “Official Secret” by Clayton Hutton, who ran the whole operation for Churchill.

60 likes on today’s strip! I’m reading that as an indication that most of us here in the Armchair Detectives Society were sick of reading about that persnickety pullet. I’m hesitant to comment any further for fear of jinxing us.

Through roundabout circumstances, I found that William Shatner was in a pilot for Nero Wolfe series, as Archie Goodwin.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12274944/mediaviewer/rm1602008065/?ref_=tt_md_9

POW Monopoly, hmm? —And you think if such were advertised as being “on market” it would draw out Gameboy, Chief Patton?

Maybe. Maybe not.

And just how did you come up with this “lead” for Tracy and the MCU? I guess Gameboy is worth the MCU’s time and effort because of the earlier bank/savings and loan robberies, more serious than filching an odd game or two.

And let us not forget the ever-popular Chick Tracy II, star-struck narcissistic co-star of fast food commercials with Klinique Plenty. I expect some chicken tie-in along the rambling way to the end of this arc….

Aw, just “Lego” of disecting the minutia and just go with the story line (such as it is). Sometimes these cartoonists want to see just how much we are “game” boy!

MOVIE QUOTE—-

“During the war,I was right where the bullets were the thickest.

Hiding underneath the ammunition truck!"

Lou COstello—-BUCKPRIVATES COME HOME—1947