# Help me remember a Dick Tracy villian! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 21, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-dick-tracy-villian/613478 "2012-02-21T00:34:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-dick-tracy-villian/613478/1 "2012-02-21T00:34:36Z")
This would be from the newspaper comic strip, probably late 60s - early 70s. I seem to recall his first name was Percy. I don’t remember if he had a proper criminal alias or not. He had long fingernails on one hand that he would occasionally use to slit people’s throats. He came across as a dandy & flower sniffing sissy - which kept people off guard until he could move in slash their jugular. He was part of a rather long story & was finally dispatched by being frozen solid on the surface of the moon. Chester Gould devoted several panels to this guy’s death. I think there were even frozen snot-sicles hanging from his nose. It really creeped me out when I was a kid. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-dick-tracy-villian/613478/2 "2012-02-21T01:02:38Z")
Purdy Fallar in 68 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-dick-tracy-villian/613478/3 "2012-02-21T01:04:26Z")
Not Percy, Purdy Fallar: > **[List of Dick Tracy characters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dick_Tracy_characters)** > > The comic strip Dick Tracy has introduced numerous characters. > The titular hero of the strip. Dick Tracy was born in 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. He served as a lieutenant (senior grade) in US Navy Intelligence during World War II. > Began in the art theft ... > [@](#): > > Purdy Fallar (1968) - Murderer, thief, and brother of Notta Chin Chillar. He was quite handsome (Lizz and Moon Maid swooned when he flirted with them), and his name was a pun on “pretty fellow.” He grew extremely long sharp fingernails on the first two fingers of his right hand, which he used to slice open giant escargot (large snails native to the Moon) to extract their meat. Purdy kept in practice by slicing open grapefruits with his fingers. He came to Tracy’s attention when he used his fingernails to slice open a man’s throat, though Tracy could not prove it. Purdy worked for Diet Smith on the moon and used laser guns to mine gold. He conspired with an unnamed accomplice to steal gold and sell it to Mr. Intro, and eventually went solo in this venture after he used the laser gun to kill his partner. Before Purdy could complete his transaction with Intro, Tracy caught up with him on the moon and subdued him by beating him to a bloody pulp. In desperation, Purdy committed suicide by running out into the extreme cold of the moon, where he was quick frozen in a standing position. Dr. Klippoff later claimed to revive Purdy from his deep freeze, but this was exposed as a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-remember-a-dick-tracy-villian/613478/4 "2012-02-21T01:12:29Z")
Thanks! I had forgotten “moon snails”. 😃