
Along the way, Tracy was framed by STOOGE VILLER and suspended from the police department, later reinstated with help from Tess and Junior. With the cover of crooked politicians and lawyers, it took over two years for Dick Tracy to finally put this criminal out of business.

A character of the early 1930’s, BIG BOY was a combination of Al Capone, Bugs Moran and other notorious gangsters.

The first was BIG BOY, whose gang killed Emil Trueheart and kidnapped Tess. Chester Gould, in over nearly a half-century of writing and drawing the Dick Tracy strip, created perhaps the most formidable list of villains in American literature.
