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

Paul painted a forgery. We call it The Physician

Cut him out. Absorb his share. Enhance my cash condition.

Bamboozle snobbish scholars, thus strengthening position

Authenticate the counterfeit. Pass off the fake rendition.

Sue Reel too shall sing the blues. Predictable submission

Betrayal is my specialty. Not seeking their permission.

Not chump change. Pedigree so strange. Remain above suspicion

To the highest bidder sell the falsified Physician.

HAPPY 2023 TO ALL HERE AT THE ASYLUM!

Happy New Year!!

Same old boring story!

Nothing new!

Sigh!

Another year

But have no fear

The MCU’s here

So criminals despair

Dick Tracy’s alright

He’ll fight through the night

The villains take flight

When faced with his might

The stories are lame

But Tracy’s the same

All evil he’ll tame

His name is his fame!

WHAT??

15 minutes into a New Year and Neil hasn’t posted a comment yet??

Those Canadians must know how to party!!

Happy New Year™, everyone!

About the name of the painting, it’s interesting to me that the French newspaper called it “Le médecin” (as I would expect), but the Italian paper uses the English name of the supposed da Vinci painting. On the other hand, it also says, “New da Vinci.” I’m sure that “new” is not an Italian word. Maybe a poor Google Translate result.

Good morning, salubrious scammers !

Is Arty licking his chopps, like a dog what aint et in 3 days ?

In Italiano il titolo sarebbe "Scoperto un “nuovo” Da Vinci intitolato IL MEDICO"

Buon anno a tutti quanti auguri di un fantastico 2023 !

Happy New Year to All

Happy New Year to All

There’s always a few scholars who will disagree it’s an actual da Vinci. On the other hand, if Paul is THAT good—shouldn’t HE have an artistic standing?

What bothers me in this strip is the casual dismissal of art experts and forensic scientists as stupid. There is no way in Heck you could pass off a new fake da Vinci. A century ago, maybe, but the technology has improved so much it is absurd to think anyone could whip out a fake in a month or two that would pass any expert. (Never mind that da Vinci is a really bad choice to start with. His few paintings are well documented and he worked v e r y s l o w l y. The rediscovered painting a few years ago was something he was known to have done, but it had been presumed lost. If you can’t discover mention of another lost work you do another artist whose work doesn’t scream fraud!) You can’t pass yourself off as a PhD in engineering by skimming a high school physics book. You can’t pass yourself as a world-class pastry chef if you don’t know how to light an oven or know what flour is. For me this is as silly as a plot where Tracy is captured at 9:00 in the morning, at 10:00 some henchman gets plastic surgery, and at 10:45 the hench stooge goes into police headquarters and no one knows the difference (including Tess, who came in to discuss something). Other strips may have done such things. I always find them ridiculous in a serious strip.

Or, I may be pleasantly surprised, and the art world may unanimously announce, “It’s fake.”

Super cool images today by Shelley . I’m still not so sure about the mustache on the beautiful Blonde though ? Sorry : (

I’m wondering about Officer Hargnett’s “sudden impulse” to go someplace where a guy just happened to be shot.

Doc Fauxci’s likeness would be much more appropriate for “Physician” FORGERY!!

….and then cut out your two most loyal stooges…if not “bump ’em off” all together, eh?

A Christopher Reeves Superman costume went for $350K? I thought ii was a Steve Reeves Superman costume that went for that figure? (If it was Chris Reeves, did some of that money -at least, go to his foundation?)

1-ART: Hey Sue! What say we pool our money and buy this new DaVinci they discovered?

2-…The critics have pronounced it genuine. Just give me all the money you got and I’ll make up the difference. I predict it will triple in value in a year!

3-SUE: Ummm, you know that I’m in on the forgery scam…

4-ART: Oh…

*5-…well, every good crook has a backup plan in case the original fails. So – you wanna go in on it or not?

SUE: NO YOU IDIOT! ART: Your loss. How about you LEND me all your money and I’ll pay you back when I sell it next year?

SUE: Add 3% interest and it’s a deal. ART: I still got the magic. Heh heh

“After that, I have a sweeeeet deal in China to produce the authentic one-and-only used-in-the-strip line of Orphan Annie contacts. Only one RARE set per customer. Long’s no to buyers bump into each other, it’s flawless! GENIUS!”

HINT: It’s two guys in a sweatshop with a can of white paint.

HINT: He means that ‘bump into’ literally.

If this works, Dekko will get Li’l Dropout, the painting ape to paint a few fake Rembrandts. That black blob in the background is Li’l Dropout (Droppy).

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/dicktracy/images/3/3e/PalletteTwins.jpg

Li’l Dropout’s owners, The Pallett Twins (the guys with moustaches), ran a narcotics ring and smuggled drugs inside the frames of their faked masterpieces, not so dissimilar to Dekko’s scheme now.

How does the money make it to him?

Who thinks Dekko will get caught ,but try to pass the buck?

Art Decco seems like a smart business man. I’m really starting to warm up to him.

When that painting goes to auction, someone is going to expose Art for passing off this fake.

He (Art) will run to the warm reception of MCU as opposed to dealing with an angry buyer who got ripped off.

A supernatural edition of ’Tracy’s Hall of Fame’

We could use more psychic cops like that and people in general.

Oily Art, Art Thief, is already counting the tens (if not hundreds) of millions he expects to rake in (secretly all for himself; bye bye, chump “partners”), as “The Art World” spins itself dizzy in the first wash of the “new discovery”! But after the adrenaline rush has subsided, more sober analyses will begin to cast doubt on the authenticity of The Physician.

In due course, Dekko’s fantasy will wilt like a pricked balloon, and he’ll wind up facing heavy jail time (if he is still alive at that point)….

Happy New Year !!!

Liked the"Harvey Dent look" on Dekko in the last panel.

Somebody buy Sue Reel a bus ticket anywhere Art Dekko isn’t.I can smell the double cross from here.