Pruneface

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Pruneface was a villainous character in the long-running comic strip Dick Tracy, drawn by cartoonist Chester Gould.

Pruneface was a brilliant industrial engineer who had a horribly deformed face, which had led to social rejection and apparently so poisoned his mind that he sold out to the Nazis and was involved in the development of nerve gas. Although Pruneface apparently died at the end of his original storyline, freezing to death in a blizzard, he was revived in the 1980s by Gould's successor, Max Allan Collins. By the time he came back, his wife Mrs. Pruneface had already died trying to avenge him.

The character was also a featured villain in the animated version which aired intermittently in the U.S. as a children's program, primarily in the 1960s.

He also made a brief appearance in the Dick Tracy movie starring Warren Beatty, where he accepted Big Boy as his superior but was eventually gunned down by the mysterious villain, The Blank.