http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/ Dick Tracy Fans Online Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:25:06 GMT andyh40 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10772 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10772 I am puzzled here? Maybe someone can help out. If you've been reading Annie this week, you have noted that the strike team sent into the underground bunker by Sun, 03 Jan 2010 20:59:49 GMT Sydney Phillips http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10771 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10771 Jim, Thanks for the update on Al Jones and Angeltop. It's appreciated. My comment on Collins/Locher "scrambling" related to the latter "eighties" work where Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:43:38 GMT JIM DOHERTY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10770 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10770 Sydney, Re your comment below: "Perhaps more important though is a Sunday page of March 30, 1991, in front of me, where Hi Top, about to shoot Tracy says : Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:03:23 GMT JIM DOHERTY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10769 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10769 Sydney, Re your comment below: "Gould introduced The 2 -Way Wrist Radio (invented by Brilliant for Diet Smith - in 1946)      and the TV version, (on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 02:25:12 GMT Sydney Phillips http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10768 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10768 ... From: JIM DOHERTY Date: 01/02/10 15:13:42 To: DickTracy@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Fw: [DickTracy] How Easy It Would Be To Bring Back FLATTOP Jim, I Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:48:01 GMT shandafa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10767 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10767 Oh, it helps a lot. Quite frankly, in the Flyface story, the THING on Tracy's wrist is quite important and I had no idea what he wore nowadays or what it was Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:44:40 GMT shandafa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10766 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10766 That's true as Jim pointed out that Collins was requested by Tribune to bring back at least one classic villian a year. Which required Collins to be a Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:09:36 GMT Sydney Phillips http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10765 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10765 Mike, The Wrist Geenee - that's (the spelling of) the modern device today's Dick Tracy now wears on his wrist. Diet Smith the inventor "handed it over" to Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:13:36 GMT JIM DOHERTY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10764 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10764 Sydney, Re your comments below: "Bill, Truth is, Collins really murdered that idea by virtue of "overuse" of the base concept. Aside from Gould's own Flattop Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:29:29 GMT Sydney Phillips http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10763 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10763 Bill, Truth is, Collins really murdered that idea by virtue of "overuse" of the base concept. Aside from Gould's own Flattop Jr. Collins and Fletcher's started Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:25:56 GMT EARLWMF@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10762 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10762 Some wealthy bad guy decides to get plastic surgery to LOOK JUST LIKE Flattop, OR Flattop has another brother (or son) he never knew about...maybe with a Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:14:06 GMT shandafa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10761 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10761 ... No, I was using Flattop as an example. Under the logic of the Kilian era, it'd be easy to bring him back. But that's not the direction to go. But I do Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:35:01 GMT Sydney Phillips http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10760 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10760 Mike, My closing sentence was not intended to suggest that this opened a door, allowing you and Joe to bring back Flattop. He's dead !. And should remain that Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:12:00 GMT JIM DOHERTY http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10759 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10759 Earl, Re your comment below: "In the 1960s TV cartoon series, FLATTOP and others were all still very much alive and TOGETHER. Flattop, Itchy, BB Eyes etc never Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:45:54 GMT EARLWMF@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10758 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DickTracy/message/10758 In the 1960s TV cartoon series, FLATTOP and others were all still very much alive and TOGETHER. Flattop, Itchy, BB Eyes etc never died according to the TV