Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for November 27, 2024

old name-change petitions???…

“Moniker mayhem.”

peculiar looking rendition of Lizz in panel two…

mot looking like her at all…

Good morning™, all!

Who changed their name? I don’t think it was the Tottens was it?

Good morning™, Midnight Confabulators !

Sam’s digging in, I like that !  Is That Lizz’s stunt double ‘cause it sure don’t look like her.

I see one of Sam’s biggest fans there in Panel 2!

City Hall Archives, I would imagine. Although they may well be digitized by now.

Ye Olde Namechange Shoppe?

Does Sam eats only sammich or he also eats samosa?

Chucky’s Sam is always such a sourpuss!

Someone bring him a pastrami sandwich!

Does Sam have ESP as well?

We have a murder victim carrying a fake employee ID. We discover victim was an international terrorist. So we start investigating the long dead founder of the firm that was on the fake ID?

Or maybe Sam has already chased down the ten thousand things that would have made more sense… Including what the janitor at the TA had for lunch that day?

Long-time cop doesn’t know about the City Clerk’s office.

I want a VengeyTale ! ! !

SAM (caught in the process of guiltily pouring some of that expensive Midnight Oil down a concealed tube into a flask tape to his leg, as it sells on the Gray Market for many, many pastrami sandwiches): Says here I’m still ‘Stealin’ Sam’. I want something with a little CLASS like…like…(inspiration strikes) SECRETIVE Sam! That way the credito…er…PERPS can’t look me up in the Yeller Pages and repo…umm…annoy me. Strictly police business, so the 60 hours so far are at full pay!

Samsamsam. Why lie? She can easily see you’re looking up and reading vintage Mary Worth strips online. Plus, the mounds of ‘I LUV MARY’ items making it nearly impossible to approach your desk suggest there’s something going in. You actually thought your having to tunnel your way in wasn’t noticed?!?!?!

STALKIN’ SAM STRIKES!!!! (live in fear!)

1- LIZ: ♪♪♫ Oh Sam ♪♪♫ Have you seen my skirt and panties? I took them off but forget where I left them… SAM: MRRRRRPH! AND FRANKINCENSE!

2- : …Don’t bother me! I’m busy! LIZ: Myrrrh and Frankincense is an odd exclamation for a Jewish fella. Odder still is your lack of reaction to my bare bush-n-tush. Or my BB ’n T as the guys around the squad room have come to call it.

3- SAM: ONE – Who do you think the 3 Wisemen were – JEWISH FELLAS – THAT’S WHO! And TWO – There’s not a man in this outfit that hasn’t seen your BB ’n T so often that it hasn’t ruined our manly reaction to yours and every other woman’s!!! Now leave me alone and PUT SOME PANTS ON!

MOVIE QUOTE“Where do you want this Virgin Queen?”

“Put her next to her husband”

Workmen arranging Wax Museum Statues—-STEAMBOAT ’ROUND THE BEND—1935

Quite common to change Germanic surnames to something more English friendly, Lifshutz became Leaf, Schneider became Taylor, Lipschitz became Lipton, etc. Why anyone would keep the name Lipschitz is beyond me!

same place Archibald Leach and Marian Morrison went

….to The Department Of Name-changery. obviously……

Checking out now for a few days to hit the holiday road, secure in the knowledge that nothing remotely important storywise will occur in my absence. Thanky Happsgiving to all!

Firebomb’s echo chamber continues to pass more frequent testing schedule!

Sam: “MRRRRPH!”

Lizz: “Sam, don’t you know better than to talk with your mouth full?”

in panel two, is Sam having a case of the DT’s?…

does that numbskull nimrod three floors up know what the hell he’s babbling and rambling on about?…

just sounds like more of his usual nonsense…

Just when I thought this arc couldn’t move any slower….

Long holiday weekend approaches—-won’t be back until Monday December 2nd. If we’re REALLY getting interrupted by a Minit Mystery,I probably won’t miss very much.

Apple,Cherry,and Mince at my house.And who’s hiding in the Santa Maria replica THIS month?

So Lizz’ turf is perusing archives of “The Daily”? I thought she was supposed to be more of a front-line investigator.