Flattop (Dick Tracy Villain) - Characters Created Because of Flattop

Characters Created Because of Flattop

As a response to Flattop's popularity, Gould created a large family for the character, all of whom were also equally bizarre hardened criminals. These included:

• Flattop, Jr. - The son of Flattop, an engineering genius who had customized his car into an arsenal of equipment designed to keep him ahead of the law. His accomplice during his crime wave was Joe Period, who Flattop Jr left to be captured by Dick Tracy and partner Sam Catchem. Flattop Jr was driven insane by the ghost of a girl he killed, to the point that his hair turned white. He was killed in self-defense by Tracy's new partner Lizz Worthington who was also the sister of the girl who was murdered by Flattop Jr.
• Stilleta "Mrs Flattop" Jones- The Widow of Flattop Jones and the Mother of Flattop Jr and Angelica "Angeltop" Jones and a former circus preformer bent on revenge for the deaths of her husband and children.
• Unknown sister- Looks exactly like Flattop and Sharptop (possible Triplet), real name was never given, but was referred to by Tracy as "Auntie Flattop". Took care of her nephew Flattop Jr. after Flattop drowned and like her other cousin Sharptop, seemed like a law abiding person. She genuinely cared about her nephew and was heartbroken when he turned to crime.
• Blowtop - A brother of Flattop whose distinctive feature was an explosive temper that caused him to rage at the slightest provocation. Blowtop was responsible for the kidnapping of Junior Tracy and the arson of Tracy's home. Like his brother Flattop, he has dealt with Vitamin Flintheart, who traded his shirt full of money for a shrunken head. He served 20 years in jail and later reformed. He rejected his niece Angeltop's plan to kill Tracy with the Brow's son and was not been seen since.
• Angeltop - Angelica "Angeltop" Jones, the daughter of Flattop who has a head of equivalent dimensions, not including her fuller hair, sought to murder Dick Tracy in revenge for the death of her father and Policewoman Lizz for killing her brother. Angelica had arrived to do a television interview about her book My life as Flattop's daughter. Junior Tracy and Vitamin Flintheart were in the same studio, and Angelica's boyfriend, The Brow's son, shot Vitamin Flintheart. After a fire on the Santa Maria replica in the lake (the same place where her father drowned under) nearly killed her after an attempt to murder Tracy, she had plastic surgery by crooked Doctor Willis Carver, whom she later killed. She was arrested later and was killed in a shoot out in an aftermath of an intense manhunt after the murder of her soon to be ex-husband.
• Hi-Top - The son of Angeltop & an unnamed African American Jazz Musician who was murdered by Angeltop after she found out that he was planning to divorce her & also planned to take sole custody of the infant Hi-Top. Hi-Top is, consequently, the grandson of Flattop. He is the leader of a black street gang in Tracy's city.
• Sharptop - A third Jones brother (Flattop's identical twin) who grew up right, became a college professor, and was apparently possessed by the ghost of his brother during a seance held by Gravel Gertie's vegan, female chauvinistic, new age enthusiast niece, Crystal.
• Poptop - The beer-guzzling father of Flattop, Auntie Flattop, Blowtop, and Sharptop, the grandfather of Flattop Jr. and Angeltop,the uncle of Frizzletop, and the great-grandfather of Hi-Top. Considered the entire family a disgrace and kept his distance from them.
• Frizzletop Jones-O'Copper- Flattop's long lost cousin who was a Army nurse servng in the Philippines before losing her left arm during a Imperial Japanese air raid. She aided Dick Tracy during the Tiger Lilly case where she was engaged to Tiger Lilly's brother John who died during the same air raid. Frizzletop is now happily married to Dennis O'Copper who rescued her.