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The comic strip Dick Tracy has introduced numerous characters:

Contents 1 Tracy Family 2 Professional Comrades 3 Personal Acquaintances 4 Dick Tracy Rogues Gallery (alphabetically) 5 Dick Tracy Rogues Gallery (chronologically) 6 Trivia

[edit] Tracy Family

• Dick Tracy - The title character of the strip. Born 1909 {eight years after Creator Chester Gould}. In 1931 before even joining the Police, he had captured his first villain-Pinkie the Stabber. While leading a posse against The Arsons and Cutie Diamond, Tracy is seen in a Police uniform and not his regular plainclothes. A lieutenant (senior grade) in US Navy Intelligence during World War II.
• Dick Tracy trivia - injuries and wounds on the job: {examples}
  • Hit on head with gun butt & struck on jaw with brass knuckles during Tess Trueheart kidnapping.
  • Hit on head with suitcase of bricks then kidnapped and burned on right foot by Broadway Bates.
  • Blown up by dynamite on Stud Brozen's boat; knocked unconscious and nearly drowned; then nearly killed by compressed air by The Blank in a decompression chamber.
  • Kidnapped by Scardol and nearly buried alive by soft concrete dam.
  • Kidnapped by Jerome Trohs gang and his right hand crushed by Momma.
  • Kidnapped by the Black Pearl gang and cut on left check and nearly shot along with Pat Patton. Nearly burned alive in tank.
  • Nearly killed by Little Face Finny when window washer's platform Tracy was on was untied by a henchman.
  • Kidnapped by Duke and tied up and nearly suffocated by dish of burning sulphur; fell through soft ground into the Mole's underground hideout; nearly strangled by the Mole and nearly killed by cave in and then almost drowned by water in tunnel.
  • Thrown down pit by Jacques with huge boulder thrown on top of him.
  • Breaks right leg when leaving Bea Thorndike house after slipping on ice; later kidnapped by B.B.Eyes gang and nearly blown up by runaway furnace; nearly smothered by mounds of tires knocked on him by B.B. Eyes gang-then imprisoned in paraffin straitjackets with Pat Patton.
  • Trapped in a basement with another policeman and nearly killed by Pruneface with poison gas.
  • Throat nearly cut with knife by Charlie and then nicked in right side by Flattop Jones with pistol.
  • Stabbed in right shoulder by lighting rod thrown as a spear by The Brow.
  • Poisoned by Breathless Mahoney.
• Tess Trueheart - The detective's love interest and later wife.
• Junior Tracy - The adopted son of Dick Tracy and later a police forensic artist. First appears in a Steve the Tramp episode. In 1937 The Blank episode he is 10 years old. His real name is Hank Steele Jr.
• Moon Maid - first wife of Junior Tracy, later murdered
• Sparkle Plenty - Second wife of Junior Tracy. In 1949 she is 3 years old.
• Bonnie Braids (Sometimes spelled Bonny.)- Daughter of Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart. Born in the back of a squad car May 4, 1951.

[edit] Professional Comrades

• Chief Brandon - The city's Chief of Police; After retirement he becomes a businessman of Hardware business named "LAwn Order" (A Law and Order pun!}
• Pat Patton - Tracy's closest partner and later was appointed Brandon's successor as Chief of Police - formerly a steel worker {served as comic relief and Sidekick before introduction of B.O. Plenty/Gravel Girty and Vitamin Flintheart}
• Sam Catchem - Tracy's replacement partner
• Lizz - A former nightclub photographer turned police officer with a particular talent for hand to hand combat
• Diet Smith - An industrialist who supplied advanced equipment for Tracy & the police department.
• Brilliant - inventor of two-way Wrist TV; his murder leads to Chief Brandon's retirement and advancment of Pat Patton as Chief.
• Patrolman Ferris - Highway patrolman murdered by Mumbles gang when he tried to stop them for driving a stolen car; although Tracy has to release Mumbles gang, subsequent events lead to gang's downfall. {Note-last picture of this episode shows Mumbles apparent doom although he is later "brought" back as a recurring character at least twice!!}
• Patrolman Grovey Groove - Uniformed beat Patrolman and a fiance to Liz.
• Patrolman Murphy - Stock character of Irish uniformed beat patrolman who appears in several episodes such as Flattop Jones and The Brow. (A continuity error in "Flattop Jones" has Murphy shot in head by Flattop while escaping from police - yet succeeding frames show Murphy without even a head wound)
• Officer Dennis O'Copper - Stock character of Irish uniformed cop; a State Trooper who appeared in Pruneface episode
• Patrolman O'Malley - Stock Character of Irish Uniformed beat Patrolman sent in plainclothes by Tracy to contact B.B.Eyes gang. B.B. Eyes delivers "hot Tires" and O'Malley body to Tracy. His murder by B.B.Eyes gang in 1942 would literally lead to B.B.Eyes's downfall and fatal doom.
• Nolan - Police Clerk who helps Tracy trace ownership of Arthur "Nip" Dalton's wrecked car.
• Chief Yellow Pony-Stock Character of Native American who formed posse with Dick Tracy and Pat Patton to track down Arson siblings and Cutie Diamond.
• Mugg - Boxer Dog who helped Dick Tracy bring down his own particular enemy Pear-Shape.
• Captain Bowline - US Navy Intelligence Tracy's superior. He appears in episodes of Flattop Jones and The Brow.
• Lt. Marks - US Navy Intelligence officer (plainclothes) - helped Tracy; appears in episode of The Brow.
• Special Agent Jim Trailer - An FBI Agent who helped Tracy in the Famon Brothers case and the Black Pearl episode. Also appears years later in episode, assigned to work with Tracy on the kidnapping of Diet Smith, and in other cases like Freez-Dri and the return of Pruneface.
• Cal Bullet (Sr) - Highway Police Chief who was murdered by his own son Cal Bullet (Jr) when the father discovered his son's treasonable involvement with Pruneface. The accidental discovery of his body by Dick Tracy leads to Pruneface's capture and Cal Bullet Jr death at the hands of his own deadly poison gas.
• Frizzeltop - One armed woman friend of Dick Tracy and Junior Tracy; after Clara is captured, Frizzeltop impersonates Clara to trick Cal Bullet Jr into leading law to Pruneface.
• Lottie Latte - First appears on 4/8/06 as the criminal associate of Al Kinda in a plot to con The Plentys out of their lottery winnings. Lottie appears to either be a male transvestite or a transgendered person. After turning the tables on Al Kinda, it is revealed that Lottie is in fact the FBI's top undercover agent and "best marksperson in the department".
• Unnamed Western Sheriff {1940}-seen in "Mamma and the Midget" episode. Drove Dick Tracy to Mountain top lodge hideaway of Midget {Jerome Trohs}
• Unnamed Sheriff {1945}-seen in "B.O. Plenty" episode after B.O. Plenty escapes from County Jail.

[edit] Personal Acquaintances

• Bob Oscar "B.O." Plenty - A farmer, former criminal and later personal friend of the Tracys; after Shaky's body was discovered by his stepdaugther Breathless Mahoney, Breathless then stole his estate money from her mother and met "B.O." on the run. "B.O." is noted for having a rather "musky" scent that follows him around.
• Gravel Gertie - former criminal and now wife of B.O. Plenty. Introduced in The Brow episode - the Brow flees in terror when he catches sight of his guardian angel from the police!
• Vera Alldid - First husband of Sparkle Plenty, unilaterally divorced her. Cartoonist of "The Invisible Tribe" - Native American tribe who speak but are never seen!
• Emile Trueheart - his robbery & murder by Big Boy's gangster "Crutch" {See below} would lead to Dick Tracy's vow to fight crime; father of Tess Trueheart.
• Mrs. Trueheart - mother of Tess Trueheart; although wounded by Pruneface, her photograph of the villain helped lead to his downfall - she also makes cameo appearances in Flattop Jones and The Brow episodes.
• Vitamin Flintheart - formerly motion picture thespian - now just a hypochondriac ham actor who quotes William Shakespeare. Husband of Snowflake Falls, he first appeared in Flattop Jones episode age 50 years old; also appears in episodes of The Brow and Shaky. His medicine bottle brings about Flattop Jones's doom while his fur coat also brings about Shaky's doom as well. Both Vitamin and Snowflake make cameo appearance in Freez-Dri and Pruneface episode.
• Hank Steele Sr - Blind silver miner and biological father of Junior Tracy; murdered by Stooge Viller while trying to protect his son. {Mrs. Steele is seen briefly in the 1937 "The Blank" episode}
• Rudy Seton-Big Bandleader and friend of Dick Tracy.

[edit] Dick Tracy Rogues Gallery (alphabetically)

(Work in Progress)

• Alec Penn (1932) Had metal plate in skull after being shot while trying to desert from British Army in World War I; postwar WW I career included being a "Don Juan" thief, killer of wealthy women under the alias "Count Gordon", and forging stocks and bonds certificates. The forgeries came to light after Buddy Rogers was rescued by Dick Tracy.
• Al Kenda(2006)
• Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (1931) Thug/Crime boss, who years after being caught and imprisoned by Dick Tracy for kidnapping Buddy Rogers, died raging with only one wish unfulfilled, to kill and outlive Dick Tracy. A caricature of Al Capone.
• Arsons, The (1935) {Boris and Nora Arson}. Bank robbing and police killing brother and sister pair; she is killed and he is wounded and captured by Dick Tracy and a posse.
• Arthur "Nip" Dalton (1937) Slot Machine Crime Lord killed by the Blank and found by Tracy in trunk of his own car after train wreck. Member of 1926 Redrum Gang.
• B.B. Eyes (1942)Tire bootlegger who killed Patrolman O'Malley and tried to kill Dick Tracy and Pat Patton; trying to escape from the police he ends up in bottom of bay trapped in an old tire.
• Belle{1932}-Broadway Bates Gang moll; accidentally shot her own gang member in a fight between Bates and Dick Tracy; later arrested.
• Black Pearl (1940) Govt blueprint gang thief who nearly killed Dick Tracy and Pat Patton; captured with Horance by Jim Trailer.
• Blank, The (1937) {aka Frank Redrum-see below}
• Big Frost (1948) - Modeled after Gould's publisher Joseph Patterson, murdered Brilliant which prompted Chief Brandon to resign
• Blowtop (1950)
• Boss Jim Herod{1933} Old Time Political City Boss and politician who was secretly allied to thug "Big Boy" Caprice; killed by Police in gunfight.
• Breathless Mahoney (1945) Stepdaugther of Shaky who finds his body and after inquest steals his strong-box keys; takes $50,000 hidden in strong box and on the run meets B.O.Plenty. Captured by Dick Tracy she poisons Tracy and Plenty and is again on the run after she kills her landlady who was going to the police. Accidentally meets with B.O.Plenty who nearly succeeds in strangling her and takes the money from her. Later she dies in hospital. {Inspired by Veronica Lake?}
• Broadway Bates (1932) Looked like Batman villain Penguin; kidnapped Dick Tracy for ransom money; after jumping bail he tried to kill Tracy on a train in the woods but ended up with gang members thrown off the train and stranded in middle of nowhere!!
• Brow, The (1944) German Spy ring master who captured the "Summer Sisters" and tried to blackmail them into working for him by torturing one sister and forcing the other sister to collect his spy reports; one sister shot both of his henchmen yet the Brow escaped; he later killed both sisters and tried to flee into the welcome arms of "Gravel Girty" {!}. Tracked down by Tracy, Brow was later involved in a fight with Tracy in which Brow fell through a window and is impaled on a flagpole. His trademark is promient brow ridges and no ears!
• Bud Jenkins (1943) Blackmailer of Flattop Jones {"evil twin" counterpart of Junior Tracy}-drowned in park pond after falling through ice after buying expensive skates with Flattop's hush money; {Ironically this is same pond in which Flattop also drowns trying to escape Dick Tracy}
• Cal Bullet, Jr(1942) {See Above}
• Charlie (1944) Flattop Gang member killed in gun battle between Flattop and Dick Tracy
• Charlie Yenom {1941} (Yenom=Money!} Cold Storage Worker who saved Littleface Finny from icy death-for $10,000 in exchange.
• Clara (1942) Juke box operator who was part of Pruneface sabotage ring.
• The Claw{1947) From "Dick Tracy" movie Dick Tracy Dilemma. Stock characther villain with hook for hand who after robbering fur warehouse kills a night watchman, a fake blind peddler and his two accomplices before he eltocutes himself with his hook trying to kill Dick Tracy.
• Coffyhead (1947)
• Crewy Lou (1951) A professional portrait photographer and criminal. Sported a crew cut hair style with combined braids. Inadvertently kidnapped Bonnie Braids while being pursued by Tracy.
• Crutch (1931) Big Boy gangster who killed Mr. Trueheart; first criminal killed by Dick Tracy Nov 26, 1931.
• Cueball {1946} From Dick Tracy Movie "Dick Tracy vs Cueball" Bald thugh who kills a diamond courier, a fence and a extortianist saloon owner before he is killed by a train trying to escape from Dick Tracy. {Triva: the underground workshop movie set in this movie was also used in movie "Confessions of Boston Blackie". Ironically enough the hero in the Boston Blackie movie series is a former jewelery thief turned private detective!}
• Cutie Diamond (1935) Bank robber and cop killer; accomplice of Arsons; he hid in a cave guarded by wildcats; killed by Dick Tracy and posse.
• Dan "The Squealer" Mucelli (1932) In charge, along with Texie Garcia, of the city's narcotics traffic, apparently as part of the Big Boy's organization. Cousin of Ribs Mocco.
• Dan Supena (1937)
• Deafy Sweetfellow (1940)
• Dirks (1937) Supena Thug who tried to kill Junior Tracy but was killed by The Blank. Member of Old Redrum Gang.
• Doc (1944) Brow's henchman who helped him kill the Summer sisters and cab driver; later killed in car accident while trying to flee from the police
• Doc Hump (1934)
• Dr. Lunquist(1944} Physician who was forced to treat Shaky's hand after spotting a concealed gun held by a gang member
• Dr. Plain (1951)
• Dr. Rex (1942) He recognized Pruneface after Pruneface killed the his dog in order to steal the dog's sweater to disguise himself after breaking his leg; managed to leave a clue for Police leading to Pruneface's capture.
• Dubbs (1931)
• Duke(1941) aka "Duke the Dip". Pickpocket; almost succeeded in killing Dick Tracy; kidnapper and armed car robber murdered by the Mole. {Apparently member of Mole's old Gang}. After the body was found by police, the trail leads to Mole.
• Ed aka Machine Gun Eddy (1943) Flattop Gang Member killed in gun battle between Flattop and Dick Tracy
• Eddy (1944) Shaky Gang Member; killed by jumping to ground in panic from apartment fire; continuity error is that Gould used this name for either one or two of Shaky's henchmen
• Edward Nuremoh (1939) {Nuremoh=HOME RUN!}
• 88 Keyes (1943) {88 Keyes=number of Piano keyboard keys!}Piano player and secret head of murder gang for hire; killed his own gang member "Jenny the Girl Singer" when she found out he was going to double cross her; eloped with Mrs A.B. Hamlet and killed her for insurance money. Killed accomplice "Red Bluff"; discovery of Bluff's body by police led to Keyes' own death in a railroad shed in a gunbattle with Dick Tracy.
• Empty Williams (1951)
• Faceless Redrum (1937) {Redrum=Murder!}. Real name is Frankie Redrum. 1926 Slot machine gang leader and killer who escaped from Prison in 1927; killed nearly all his old gang in revenge in 1937 because they thought he wasn't good enough for them. Tried to kill Dick Tracy, Pat Patton and Stud Brozen by blowing Brozen's boat up; later tried to kill Tracy and Brozen on Brozen's other boat; Patton knocked out Redrum and later Tracy removed Redrum's mask to reveal a disfigured face of Redrum.
• Flattop (1943) {Aka Flattop Jones} Paid $5,000 to murder Dick Tracy
• Flattop Jr. (1956)
• Flyface (1959)
• Gargles (1946) Killer of Themesong's mother, driver of glass truck, and a few henchmen, and was finally caught in a glass store where Dick Tracy used a panel of bulletproof glass to walk towards him as he wasted all of his bullets, then fell off of a platform, and was impaled and dismembered by several falling shards of broken glass.
• George Spaldoni (1934)
• Gruesome{1947} From Dick Tracy movie Dick Tracy meets Grusome. Thuggish killer in a bank holdup who kills a kidnapped scientist; his boss and boss's girlfriend before being Killed by Dick Tracy. Gruesome played by Boris Karloff. {Scene at end where killer's body almost destroyed in furance is parody of movieFrankenstein where monster {played by Karloff} is burned in windmil fire!}
• Hans aka Agent 12(1944) {Brow gunman killed by June Summers}
• Hawker Davis(1943)Conman and Street hawker murdered by Flattop
• Heals Beals (1948)
• Hed Hedges(1949) {Pear Shape gang-part of Jewelry swindle ring; bitten by Mugg the dog and captured by Dick Tracy
• Hightop (1991) {Descendant of Flattop, involved in a young urban gang notorious for killing a kid for his sneakers. Sported a high-top afro hairstyle popular in the 90's}
• Horace(1940) {Black Pearl gang) Stock Charather thug-captured by Dick Trailer
• Hy Habeas (1931)
• Influence (1946) - Used special colored contact lenses to mind control his victims
• Irma (1946)
• Itchell "Itchy" Oliver (1945)
• J.C. (1941) Littleface Finny gang member who was burned by Finny on chest after he used monogrammed handkerchief to commit robbery.
• Jacques (1941) Tried to kill Dick Tracy with a boulder; later killed by Dick Tracy when he tried to kill Debbie Thorndike. Brother of B.B. Eyes.
• Jenny the girl Singer(1943) Part of 88 Keyes gang; murdered by 88 Keyes when she discovered he planned to double cross her and Piano Turner;after her body is found by Dick Tracy, Piano Turner confess.
• Jerome Trohs and Mama (1940){Trohs=SHORT!} See also Mamma and the Midget. Public Lawyer and secret gang leader who abandons his girlfriend "Mamma" to the Police; aka "Joe Atom" in Wild West Rodeo Comic relief of story; swindles old couple out of Mountaintop Lodge; Trohs dies when scalded by "Mamma".
• Jim Pistol{1949} Health Spa and exercise owner appears as comic relief in P.S. Tone episode; reappears years later with Tone as assistant.
• Joe(1944) {LAst name Turtle(?)Brow spy henchman-killed by June Summer}
• Joe Period (1955)
• Johnny Ramm (1938)
• John Lavir (1939)
• JoJo Nidle (1938) {Nidle=NEEDLE!}
• Junky Doolb (1940) (Doolb=Blood)Gang leader who killed Fred Mason. Later killed by Police after he is tricked by Jerome Trohs into escaping from Jail with empty gun.
• Karpse (1938)
• Kenneth Grebb(1932) Blackmailer who ended up being buried alive in landslide
• The King (1951) Powerful organized crime figure in Crewy Lou continuity who is, apparently, the Big Boy's successor as boss of the city's mobs.
• Kis N Tel {1947} {Aka KISS AND TELL!} Singer enguaed to Mumbles until she found out he was a thief during concert gigs; in revenge Mumbles stole her car which resulted in death of Highway Patrolman {above}; later she was forced to sing with his old group after he threatened to blind her. at sea in cabin cruiser Mumbles tied her up and sent up a bomb-which Dick Tracy threw overboard at last minute. She later becomes a singing star.
• Krome (1940)
• Laffy (1943)
• Larceny Lu (1932)
• Lee Ting (1938)
• Lips Manlis (1936)
• Littleface Finney (1941) Gang leader/murderer who tried to escape from Dick Tracy after nearly drowning in pond. He was recaptured by Tracy only after losing both his ears to frostbite trapped in a freezer; his face is covered with bee stings!! His trademark is a unusually small face with large ears.
• Mamma {1940} Overweight thugish and sadistic girlfriend of Jerome Trohs who crushed Dick Tracy's Hand; escaped from prison and became a truck and car highjacker; scalded Trohs to death in an outdoor shower. In hand to hand combat, Tracy used the sling from his injured hand to subdue "Mamma" by nearly strangling her; she ended up handcuffed and back in prison.
• Mar, The (1946)
• Marty(1944) Shaky gang member shot through hand and captured by Dick Tracy
• Fred Mason (1940) Factory owner who tried to kill Mary X because she was a witness to his murder of partner Freez; murdered by Junky Doolb in revenge after Mason failed to deliver rigged gambling equipment to Doolb gang.
• Mary X (1940){aka Luella Sunny} amnesia victim who (at first) could only lead Dick Tracy to body of Freez. After Mason tried to kill her twice, the second attempt restored her memory. She becomes singer with Ruby Setons band
• Max (1931) {Big Boy Gangster}
• May and June Summer (1944) Pickpocket country girls who came to the city to break into Radio; got mixed up with The Brow who murdered them and their cab driver; after Tracy found their bodies, his investigation of their deaths led to Brow's Capture.
• Measles (1945)
• Micky (1941) Trolley driver part of Littleface Gang who was killed in hospital by henchmen J.C. and accomplice as he was confessing part in robbery gang.
• Micky (1942) BB EYes gang member-knocked out by his escaping boss and captured by police
• Mole, The (1941) Counterfeiter who was thought to have been killed by own gang in 1926; literally brought from underground from collapsed tunnel and captured by Dick Tracy; confessed that he saved his own life by promising his gang a permanent hideout as long as he lived free of charge-instead killed them and took their money {see Duke the Dip above}; (reappeared 30 years later-stricken with arthritis- in cameo concerning his granddaughter Mollie; Johnny Scorn and Pouch)
• Momma and the Midget (1940)-see Jerome Trohs and Mamma Above
• Morgancoin Aka Agent 62(1942) Pruneface accomplice who was trapped by Police in house after he tried to escape from Pruneface; killed by Pruneface; body carried out by Dr. Rex to Police.
• Mousey (1949)
• Mr. Bribery (1955) Perhaps the most gruesome of Tracy's villains, Mr. Bribery decapitated people and shrunk their heads. He wanted Dick Tracy to be part of his collection, and set out to kill him. He also had a cigar smoking cat and maintains discipline in his gang by branding them.
• Mr. Crime (1952)
• Mr. Kroywen (1940)
• Mrs. A.B. Hamlet(1943) Hired 88 Keyes gang to murder her wealthy husband for insurance money; she was murdered by 88 Keyes-who had been a old lover of hers.
• Mrs. Kincaid (1954)
• Mrs. Mahoney (1945) fourth wife of Shaky and mother of Breathless Mahoney
• Mrs. Pruneface (1943) The wife of Pruneface, tried to avenge him by killing tracy, but later ended up getting stupidly drowned in a pool after killing a newly wedded man. It was later discovered that pruneface was still alive, and Mrs. Pruneface had gotten herself killed for nothing at all.
• Mrs. Van Hosen{1945} Wealthy recluse who appears briefly in Breathless Mahoney episode. Appears years later in same role on Archie's TV-Funnies.
• Mrs. Volts (1948)
• Mumbles (1947) Murderer and thief who keeps coming back after apparently being killed. His trademark is never speaking clearly-"mumbling".
• Mussell(1941) Littleface Finnny gang member-captured by Dick Tracy
• Naiv, Harley, (1986, 1990): A brilliant actor disfigured in a car "accident" created by a jealous colleague. Underwent an experimental surgical technique that allowed his face to become like putty, able to become any likeness but sagging after one hour. He decided to become a bank robber, using his skills and his face to impersonate David Letterman, Ronald Reagan, Albert Einstein and even Tracy himself. Eventually captured but has returned to plaque Tracy several times.
• Nat the Fur King (1939)
• Neely (1937) Thug Along with Dirks tried to murder Junior Tracy but killed by The Blank. Dirks and Neely were members of old Redrum Gang.
• Nellie Wharton(1943) Naive Farm girl tricked by 88 Keyes into helping him escape from Dick Tracy; When she realized who he really was, she wrecked car to try and kill herself, 88 Keyes and Red Bluff.
• Nellie the secretary(1949) (Pear Shape gang-part of diet swindle run by Pear-Shape; helped capture Sam Catchum but then she was captured by Dick Tracy)
• Nilon Hoze (1946)
• Nofel aka Agent 26(1944) {NOFEL aka FELON!!} World War I Axis Spy and illegal alien who was the Brow's spy in a rooming house; captured by Dick Tracy; the Summer Sisters tried to pawn his field glasses and were captured by the Brow
• Nothing Yonson (1955)
• Oily(1941} Accomplice of The Mole; After being murdered by the Mole, the discovery of his body by the Police leads to hidden door so Tracy can escape Mole's Tunnel.
• Old Mike The Smuggler (1933) Tried to Kill Chief Brandon and Junior Tracy by blowing his own ship up but only succeeded in killing himself.
• Oodles (1955)
• Open-Mind Monty (1954)
• Palmy(1942) Part of B.B.Eyes gang who helped kidnap Patrolman O'Malley; captured by Dick Tracy after gun battle.
• Pear-shape Tone (1949) Runs a diet swindle ring and a hot jewelry ring as well. After serving his sentence, he has a brief cameo as an assistant to Jim Pistol. He is Chester Gould's caricature of himself.
• Pedro Gonzales (1949) {Pear Shape Gang-helicopter pilot who was blackmailed by Pear Shape for his part in robbery/murder of elderly widow Mrs Waldo; tried to leave Pear Shape to the lions in zoo}
• Piano Turner(1943) Part of 88 Keyes gang who murdered A.B.Hamlet for money; arrested by Dick Tracy; confessed about the gang's activities after Jenny the Girl Singer was murdered.
• Pinkie the Stabber(1931) First criminal arrested by Dick Tracy-even before Tracy joined the Police! Ex-Boxer and Stick up ace who tried to disguise himself as a woman in Police custody but was tricked into revealing himself by Tracy with a left hook!!
• Pruneface (1942) {aka Boche}
• Red Bluff (1943) Navy Deserter killed by 88 Keyes; discovery of his body by Police led to 88 Keyes own death at hands of Dick Tracy.
• Ribs Mocco (1931) Big Boy Gang member. Although first criminal-along with Spike-to be arrested by Dick Tracy for payroll robbery after Tracy becomes a policeman, he is a bane to Dick Tracy throughout the 1930s decade-not only in weekly but also in the early Sunday editions of Dick Tracy as well! {The Early Sunday editions had separate Dick Tracy stories from the weekly plot!}. One Plot hole episode has Ribs accidentally being shot by .45 calibur bullets in the stomach by his own gang in a bungled ambush on Dick Tracy. The plot hole is that Ribs doesn't die-although in real life as Sulfa drugs did not become available until the mid 1930's-Ribs would have died of peritonitis!
• Rhodent (1959) - Noted as one of the Tracy villains who openly acknowledged that he looked unusual.
• Rughead (1955)
• Sam "The Lever" Doty(1937) Member of "Redrum Gang"; Slot machine gang leader who was kidnapped by The Blank; tied up & thrown out of a speeding car by the Blank into police HQ; tricked by Tracy into revealing that Blank's mug shot is in police files
• Scardol (1939) Police killer Gangster who tried to bury Dick Tracy under wet concrete but ends up under concrete himself.
• Schultze Innis (1937) Gang leader killed by The Blank by being tossed out of airplane; body was found after it crashed through a farmhouse roof {part of old Redrum gang of 1926}
• Selbert DePool (1941)
• Shaky (1944) Extortionist who tried to use Snowflake Falls to extort money from Banker; she broke his hand and tried to turn him over to the police, but he escaped and kidnapped her; He fractured her bones and nearly succeeded in freezing and drowning her; After stealing Vitamin Flintheart's fur coat it caught fire; Shaky killed fireman O'Brien and tried to escape Dick Tracy; however he only succeeded in being trapped in an ice coffin; body was discovered in 1945 by stepdaughter Breathless Mohoney; after inquest on Shaky's body, Breathless stole the strong box keys which were hidden in Shaky's shoe.
• Shoulders (1946)
• Sketch Paree (1949)
• Sleet (1948)
• Snowflake Falls{1944} Model used by Shaky in a scheme to extort money from Banker; married Vitamin Flintheart despite 30 year difference in age; kidnapped, suffered fractured bones, and nearly froze to death after being tossed off pier by Shaky.
• Sphinx (1951)
• Spike (1931) {Big Boy gang thug} arrested by Dick Tracy along with Ribbs Mocco for payroll robbery.
• Splitface (1945) Dick Tracy movie Dick Tracy. Disfigured killer who kills two members of jury who sent him to prision and an extortionist "professor". Tess Trueheart is kidnapped and Junior Tracy leaves a trail for Tracy to follow and capture Splitface.
• Spots (1960)
• Steve The Tramp Brogan aka 27064(1933) Started out as common thug guilty of assaults, prison escapes, and killing a US mailman; The Tramp tangled with Dick Tracy throughout 1933-1934 until he went back to prison 1934; a reformed man he was released in 1941 and opened up fruit stand; He was framed by Duke for an armored car robbery, but was later freed by Dick Tracy.
• Stooge Viller(1933) Pickpocket who almost succeeded in framing Dick Tracy for a crime; He's also a vehicle hijacker and prison escapee who teamed up with Steve the Tramp; He killed Blind Hank Steele Sr who was trying to protect his son Hank Steele Jr {aka Junior Tracy}. He was finally captured for good by Dick Tracy in 1934. He was last seen in a fight with Steve the Tramp in prison after accidentally meeting his former partner {each blames the other for being in prison}. {based on Edgar G. Robinson?}
• Stud Bronzen (1937) He's the only member of the Redrum gang not killed or turned over to police by The Blank; Supposedly got out of rackets but actually operated human smuggling ring under the cover of a salvage operation. Bronzen initially escaped to continue his criminal activity, but Tracy managed track him down and kill him in battle.
• Sugar (1941) Girlfriend of Duke the Dip; She was killed trying to escape from police in car accident.
• Texie Garcia (1931) The Big Boy's mistress/moll. Left holding the bag, when the Big Boy temporarily leaves town to get clear of Tracy's gangbusting activities. Later seen helping Dan "The Squealer" Mucelli operate the city's dope business. Modeled on night-club performer Texas Guinan.
• Tiger Lilly (1942)
• Tipp{1940} St. Bernard dog owned by Mamma and the Midget {above}; After his capture by Dick Tracy, Jerome Trohs seized bag of money and "rode" his dog to escape.
• Tojo(1942) Japanese Spy associate of Pruneface; He was captured by Dick Tracy
• Tonsils (1952)
• Trigger Doom (1941)
• Unnamed gang Members(1931) Unknown number of members of the Caprice gang, who were killed when they try to chase Dick Tracy and Tess Trueheart through city streets in wild car chase. The gangsters' car was hit by a train at a railroad crossing during the chase.
• Unnamed Gang Members{1932} Three of them with Bates tried to kill Dick Tracy on a train {See Above}
• Unnamed gang member{1939} Scardol Gang member who killed 2 policemen and captured Dick Tracy. He was captured by Night Watchman at Soft Concrete site.
• Unamed gang members{1940} Doolb gang-members at least 4 to 5; "Mamma" hit one in the face with a box of chocolate pastries; only total of three are captured with "Mamma" and "Strohs" by Tracy
• Unamed gang members(1941) Littleface Finny gang; at least two; one is arrested after he tried to kill Dick Tracy on window washer's platform, another is briefly seen with Mussell.
• Unnamed Gang members(1942) B.B.Eyes-gang three; one is captured, and two are killed in gun battle with Dick Tracy.
• Unnamed Gang member(1943} Flattop gang killed in gun battle with Dick Tracy
• Unnamed Gang Members{1944) Part of Brow's Spy ring; at least two seen in one panel besides "Hans"; "Joe" and "Doc".
• Unnamed Gang members(1944) Shaky's gang; two killed in gun battle with police; another killed in an apartment fire {Gould used name "Eddy" in continuity error}
• 'Unnamed Gang members(1945) Mumbles' gang; three gangsters assisted in killing a Highway Patrolman and robbing a charity; ultimately captured by Dick Tracy
• Unnamed Gang member(1949} Part of Pear Shape's jewelry swindle gang; bitten by Mugg the dog and captured by Dick Tracy
• Unnamed Gardener(1945) Working for Mrs. Van Hosen, he discovered Shaky's money hidden by Breathless Mahoney. Breathless ended up stabbing him in the back with his own gardening shears. However, he was not killed as he was shown in one panel being revived by Pat Patton
• Unnamed third party(1943) held the $50,000 in extortion money which was supposed to have been paid to Flattop after Dick Tracy's body is discovered.
• Unnamed Waterfront Thug{1947} Secretly sold stolen dynamite to Mumbles; later picked up by Police and found to have been large roll of money from Charity robbery.
• Vitamin Flintheart(1944){See Above}
• Wetwash Wally(1945) Laundry truck driver who tried to separate Breathless Mahoney from her money after she hid in his truck; Breathless knocked him out and met B O Plenty; Wally was revived and was picked up by Pat Patton
• Wormy (1950)
• X-RAY {1947} Comic relief henchman in Dick Tracy Movie "Dick Tracy meets Gruesome". Captured by Dick Tracy. Played by Skelton Knaggs.
• Yogee Yamma (1940)
• Zola (1943} One of three blackmarketers who hired Flattop to kill Dick Tracy (the other two not named). All three ended up captured by Dick Tracy instead and lost their $55,000 as well!!

[edit] Dick Tracy Rogues Gallery (chronologically)

(Work in Progress)

10-04-1931 Pinkie the Stabber
10-12-1931 Big Boy

02-22-1932 Broadway Bates & Belle
04-11-1932 (Big Boy returns)
05-30-1932 Alec Penn (alias Count Gordon)
08-01-1932 Kenneth Grebb
09-08-1932 Steve "The Tramp" Brogan
10-13-1932 Dan "The Squealer" Mucelli
11-28-1932 Larceny Lou

01-02-1933 "Stooge" Viller
03-02-1933 (Steve "The Tramp" returns)
08-03-1933 Old Mike "The Smuggler"
09-11-1933 Boss Jim Herrod
10-13-1933 (Big Boy returns)
11-09-1933 "Truffa" Dolan
12-09-1933 Jimmy White

02-25-1934 Giorgio Spaldoni
05-07-1934 Doc Hump
11-01-1934 Boris & Zora Arson

05-24-1935 "Bookie" Joe
08-04-1935 The case of Toby Townley
09-26-1935 "Cut" Famon

02-27-1936 "Lips" Manlis
05-12-1936 Mimi and Toyee
09-21-1936 The Purple Cross Gang

03-08-1937 The case of Mintworth
10-07-1937 The Blank

01-07-1938 Stud Bronzen
05-10-1938 Johnny Ramm
07-09-1938 Jojo Nidle
09-09-1938 Karpse, The Mar, and Doc
12-06-1938 Rono "Nails" Wolley

03-11-1939 Scardol
04-04-1939 Whip Chute
07-05-1939 Nuremoh and John Lavir
09-27-1939 Mr. Natnus
10-25-1939 Prof. Emirc

01-10-1940 Mr. Kroiwen
03-11-1940 Mason
03-11-1940 Junky Doolb
04-21-1940 Jerome Trohs and Mamma
07-14-1940 Yogee Yamma
09-18-1940 Black Pearl
10-04-1940 Deafy Sweetfellow
12-10-1940 Krome

02-25-1941 Selbert Depool
05-17-1941 Trigger Doom
05-17-1941 Mike Rennis
07-13-1941 "Little Face" Finny
09-17-1941 (Steve "the Tramp" returns)
09-17-1941 Duke and Sugar
09-17-1941 The Mole
12-26-1941 Jacques

01-29-1942 B. B. Eyes
04-19-1942 Yollman and Clarke Van Dike
06-14-1942 Amard
07-08-1942 Tiger Lily
09-24-1942 Pruneface

02-04-1943 Nifty
04-15-1943 88 Keyes
07-15-1943 Mrs. Pruneface
10-01-1943 "Laffy" Smith
12-21-1943 Flattop

05-21-1944 The Brow
09-28-1944 Shakey

01-21-1945 Measles
05-11-1945 Breathless Mahoney
09-11-1945 "Itchy" Oliver
12-25-1945 Irma

03-24-1946 Nilon Hoze
06-05-1946 Shoulders
08-30-1946 Gargles
11-15-1946 Influence

03-06-1947 Hypo
07-10-1947 Coffyhead
10-16-1947 Mumbles
12-11-1947 (Shoulders returns)

02-26-1948 Mrs. Volts
05-01-1948 Brier Volts
06-25-1948 Heels Beals
09-16-1948 Big Frost

01-01-1949 Sleet
04-06-1949 Pearshape
07-05-1949 Sketch Paree
09-26-1949 Mousey Rattner
12-30-1949 Wormy Marrons

03-27-1950 Blowtop
07-13-1950 T.V. Wiggles
12-03-1950 Dr. Plain

02-06-1951 Empty
05-16-1951 Crewy Lou and Sphinx
11-12-1951 Spinner Record

01-24-1952 Larry
03-28-1952 Tonsils and Dude
04-27-1952 Mr. Crime

01-19-1953 Odds Zonn
07-06-1953 3-D Magee and Pony

01-17-1954 Dewdrop and Sticks
01-17-1954 Open-Mind Monty
07-17-1954 Rughead

03-18-1955 George Ozone and Cinn Ozone
03-18-1955 Mambo
08-03-1955 Oodles and Nothing Yonson

01-01-1956 Joe Period and Flattop Jr.
09-30-1956 Ivy
12-24-1956 The Kitten Sisters

04-10-1957 The Clipso Brothers
09-05-1957 Elsa Crystal
12-15-1957 Pantsy

03-18-1958 Miss Egghead , Cicory and The Dropper
12-26-1958 Headache and Popsie

1959 E. Kent Hardly
1959 Rhodent
1959 Willie the Fifth
1959 Flyface

1960 Spots
1960 Fresh and Burpie Upp

[edit] Trivia

In the 1970s "Archie's TV Funnies" had cartoon "shorts" of Dick Tracy episodes. Guest villains included: B.B. Eyes; The Brow; 88 Keys; the Mole; Mumbles; P.S. Tone; Shaky; Shoulders; Sketch Paree. Cameos included appearances by Tess Trueheart; B.O. Plenty, Mrs. Van Hoosen, Sam Catchem and Chief Patton. Likewise an episode of the Josie and the Pussycats cartoon had an episode in which the musicians are chased by a "Blank" (faceless) criminal!