Shoulders

Shoulders stepped onto the scene in 1985's Dick Tracy #2 from Blackthorne, joining one of comics' most iconic rogues' galleries at a time when Chester Gould's legendary detective strip was enjoying a fresh Bronze Age spotlight. With a name perfectly in keeping with the gloriously grotesque tradition of Tracy villains, Shoulders keeps genuinely notorious company — sharing pages with the likes of Flattop, Pruneface, Mumbles, and Itchy, a who's who of classic criminal menace. Though their catalog footprint is modest, appearances across Dick Tracy and the Dick Tracy Deluxe Edition place them squarely within a beloved franchise that has endured for decades, making every appearance a collector's footnote worth tracking down.