Dick Tracy

I mean, I, I've liked what Mad Cave's done.

I, I was reading the Dick Tracy stuff for a long time.

Um-

Mm-hmm

Bill Finger and Bob Kane, inspired by the mascot of cool cigarettes back in the day when cigarettes were considered vitamins, came up with the gentleman of crime who's handy to having a thunderstorm.

The Penguin was introduced, but that's a little side-eye because he looked a lot like Dick Tracy villain Broadway Bates, and those comic book boys stole shit more than the Penguin back in those days, so much so they called it swiping, not plagiarism, which it is.

October 1948, DC, 140, Bill Finger and Dick Sprang introduces a young puzzle champion turned carny named Edward Nygma, whose superpower is his wordle score, and he's horny for escape rooms, trapping Batman and Robin in a glass maze while he giggles in his tights because brave boys love tights, only to escape into the night, leaving his signature question mark in the water.

The Riddler has arrived to annoy everyone with more well actualese than the comments section in a TikTok review of the new Resident Evil, but...

Tole.

Yeah, I was gonna call him Dick Tracy.

No, Tole.

And you, it takes out, Chad Tracy takes out, um, Peyton Tole preemptively.

These peaked in the 30s around the Depression because people were very sad.

There were these books you got where it was the popular comic strips of the day, Dick Tracy, Blondie, and they were just having hardcore sex.

What? But it looked like Dick Tracy.

You can find these online.

It looked like Dick Tracy and Blondie because people were so sad because of the Great Depression that they were like, my life sucks, but at least I can look at Dick Tracy have graphic sex.

Whoa.

It was kind of like now when people go to porn sites where, like, Homer's fucking Marge.

They were doing that in the 20s.

No."

And it's got the very steel jawed, like Dick Tracy jaw, Golden Age Batman.

Yeah.

Can we just talk about Earth-Two for one second? Um-

So looking back at this was a delight for me personally [laughs] to be like, geez, this is good.

What else did he do?

I mean, he did the Dick Tracy strip for a long time.

He did Green Lantern-

Like, that next day she comes back like, fucking was it, like, the, uh, not the Invisible Man, the, um, Dark Man.

[laughs] Like Dark Man bandages wearing a trench coat and a fucking, like, Dick Tracy hat.

And he's like, "Ah, fucking fuck you.

You made my fucking... [laughs] I did this to my fucking face 'cause of you, asshole." All right, what else we got? Oh, this was...