One of the appeals of the Dick Tracy comic strip is its unique villains.
Many had bizarre deformities including The Blank (1937), Little Face Finny (1941), Pruneface (1943), Flattop (1944), Shaky (1945), and Wormy (1949).[2]
Chester Gould often wrote these villains to invoke his readers' righteous condemnation, without exploring moral gray areas. This was emphasized by depicting the heroes as attractive (or at least normal-looking) and the villains as grotesque (with a few notable exceptions).[3]
While nearly all of the villains depicted in the strip were criminals in one way or another, not all of the criminals in the strip would qualify as "villains". The Brow, for example, was certainly a villain, but his criminal accomplices/henchmen/underlings were not. Being a "villain" in the context of Dick Tracy implies a certain primacy, as well as ruthlessness, cruelty, and a certain grandness of scale.
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- Abner Kadaver
- Ace of Spades
- Acey-Deucey
- Adolf Hitler
- Agent 20
- Al Kinda
- Alec Penn
- Angeltop Jones
- Anna Enog
- Apples
- Art Dekko
- Arty Sidesaddle
- Astral Turf
- Athnel Jones
- Aunt Soso
- Auntie Freedom
- B-B Eyes
- Barnabas Tar
- Baskerville
- Belle
- Bernard Breakdown
- Big Ace
- Big Boy
- Big Brass
- Big Brother
- Big Frost
- Big Margie
- Black Pearl Erad
- Blackjack
- Blaze Rize
- Blowtop Jones
- Bolo
- Bony
- Bookie Joe
- Boris Arson
- Braces
- Brain
- Breathless Mahoney
- Brier Volts
- Broadway Bates
- Bundles Fillagree
- Burglar
- Burglar's Daughter
- Burpie Upp
- Button
- Cal Bullet
- Carol Knox
- Cellphone
- Chameleon I
- Chameleon II
- Charlie Pilfa
- Chic Complain
- Chicory
- Chuck Hole
- Clair Howell
- Clipso Brothers
- Coffyhead
- Cole Lector
- Computer Killer
- Coney
- Crewy Lou
- Crutch
- Cueball
- Currency Jones
- Cut Famon
- Cutie Diamond
- Czar Rennis
- D.A. Fletcher
- Dab Stract
- Dan "The Squealer" Mucelli
- Danny Supeena
- Davey Mylar
- David Dierdorf D'Buckworth
- Deafy Sweetfellow
- Denise Digit
- Deputy Chief Climer
- Dewdrop
- Doc Codd
- Doc Hump
- Dope Fiends
- Doubleup
- Dr. Beau Tox
- Dr. Figment Froid
- Dr. Kryos Freezdrei
- Dr. Orta
- Dr. Plain
- Dr. Zy Ghote
- Dubbs
- Duke
- Dwight Digit
- Dye Cixot
- Ed D. Edd
- Ed Garcia
- Edward Nuremoh
- Egan Oipse
- El Tigress
- Elia Mahoney
- Elsa Crystal
- Empty Williams
- Eric Von Rhino
- Feets Diamond
- Fence Beardsly
- Flakey Biscuits
- Flattop Jones Jr.
- Flattop Jones Sr.
- Flipside
- Flunke
- Flyface
- Franklin Strong
- Fred Mason
- Gargles
- George Chin Chillar
- Ghost Pepper
- Giggly Triplets
- Greenback Eddy
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- Gruesome
- Haf-and-Haf
- Halffa Millyon
- Hammerhead
- Hard Case Harry
- Hawk
- Headache
- Heartless Mahoney
- Heels Beals
- Hennessy
- Herman (Irma Storyline)
- Hi-Top Jones
- Hot Rize
- Hy Jacky
- Hypo
- J. Kindly Goodheart
- Jack the Flipper
- Jacques
- Janice Trohs
- Jerome Trohs
- Jerry O' Marra
- Jim Donday
- Jimmy "Trigger" Doom
- Jimmy White
- Joe DeSanto
- Joe Period
- John Lavir
- Johnny Nothing
- Johnny Ramm
- Johnny Scorn
- Jojo Nidle
- Jukebox Wilson
- Jumbler
- Junky Doolb
- Laffy Smith
- Larceny Lu
- Larry Jones
- Les Power
- Lily Littel
- Lips Manlis
- Lispy
- Little Boy
- Little Face
- Little Littel
- Lofty
- Lowse
- Lugi