Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for September 09, 2023

Good morning™, everyone!

“Prints on card, victim’s, blood on towel his” had me quite confused, but I get it now. The only blood was the victim’s blood and there was no blood on the suspects. With that and the information in panel 2, Tracy thinks he has it solved, but I’m still rather puzzled.

“It was suicide! Case closed.”

Tracy needs to bring Mike in for questioning as to how he picks such lame MM writers!

Where in the name of the wild wild world of sports does Tracy put that humongous finger of his?

2 more days of boring! ZZZZzzzz,,,,

Good morning™, cocky coppers !

Tracy has a look that says “Ill get this thing wrapped up by supper.” Sam looks like he pulled edibles from evidence. That dude is right mellow !

No blood because he showered?

So in P3 he turned into teenage Dick Tracy?

Where was Tank McNamara when the murder occurred?

I still believe it was the Manager

Who (not Hoo) is the cross-eyed black kid?

All four of them held the guy down and beat the stuffing out of him, then had a nice gang shower.

That silly question should invite some colorful responses!

3rd panel interesting art on Tracy……….smiling too!

It’s YOU Stealin’ Sam! Given your sticky fingered approach law, it was only matter of time before you’d (ta-daa) steal a man’s life!"

NEXT WEEK: Smearing himself with many, oh so many, packets of ketchup he’d taken from Wendys without actually buying food, Sam returns as The crimson Sam and unleashes a wave of pathetically annoying an petty ‘master crimes’ on the city with his small army of rabid Smurfs. No ankle is un-kicked! No chair un-tacked.

I civilization DOOMED? (Well, no, but AMC has tentatively picked this up as a summer replacement series)

Maybe he stopped by TG&Y and bought a Six Finger toy? Or does he moonlight as a butcher with sensitive scales?

The Demain’s shower washed off any blood that was on him.

So the one whose prints are on the card.

When the Manager (Skipper) told Tracy that “it got pretty hot” in the locker room, everyone was still in their uniform. Vern died in his uniform. SOOOOOOO, wouldn’t a quick check of the uniforms of the suspects reveal some blood splatter? Or do they shower in their uniforms in Single A Ball to save on laundry costs? Yeah. That’s probably it. Or…Tracy is an idiot…

1-BROWN EYED GIRL: I very carefully checked each suspect in the nude and found no blood on them. TRACY: Weren’t they embarrassed? B.E.G: A little but not as much as I was when Sam came in and told me that THEY should’ve been the naked ones – not me! BA DA BOOM!

2-CROSS EYED GUY: Would you be interested in knowing which player wanted his uniform washed immediately? DT: Huh? Why?

3-DT: Hey Sam – do the Knights ever play DAY games? HAR HAR HAR! GET IT? Uhhh, I’ll be over there (points with index finger) while you work it out.

Ozark Ike (Look him up) did it.

The delivery guy said he delivered the envelope with the rare card to Demain personally, but still somehow Simpson was able to open it & the card before Demain did. & the crime scene tech didn’t say who’s prints they found on the bat. Tune in tomorrow for another episode of As The Baseball Turns.

“Sam, pull my finger…..”

I may be wrong, but I think the original Minute Mysteries had clues so that readers could make Holmes-like guesses as to the outcome. The ones over the past few years have been rather pointless dramas that wrap with a surprise ending that no one would have or COULD have guessed. This one had a good premise, but offered what appears to be a set of clues that add nothing to the story. I’m hoping that I’m wrong and that the conclusion offers an explanation of clues that I missed, but recent history doesn’t offer much promise.

No blood found on any of the suspects: maybe it wasn’t one of the “suspects”.

I’m going to suspect Hoo’s girl. If she can declare “He is innocent”, then she knows something. And she probably was not checked for blood.

As we wrap up, I thought I’d spill a few baseball homages:1) The coach is Wilford Brimley from The Natural.2) Watt and Nichevo is loosely based on Abbott and Costello.3) Vernon Simpson is based on Ray Milland from It Happens Every Spring.How many did you catch?

Washed clean of the blood splatter that would prove his guilt? —That would be the only one of our four suspects who took a second shower, namely, Phil Demain (see strip of 6 September; others may have been in sauna or whirlpool earlier, but only Demain was just drying off and grooming when questioned by Tracy); further, per the Towel Boy, “Mr. Demain hadn’t opened the envelope when everyone scattered.” BUT the card was found with blood splatter on it, the victim’s blood. That means the envelope was opened in the presence of only two people, victim Vernon Simpson, and murderer Phil Demain!