Welcome to the world of Dick Tracy, where characters can fade into the background, never to be seen again.
Chester Gould era
- Binnie Viller: The girl that accidentally shot her father.
- Yanni Yogi's wife, who was never seen again after helping the police capture her husband.
- Themesong: A recurring kid character who is never seen again after trying to figure out what happened to Vitamin Flintheart.
- Vitamin himself was subject to this under Gould's tenure. Max Allan Collins brought him back.
- Steve the Tramp is a weird case. He was said to have died (in 1953) during the Mary Steel storyline, but a later storyline showed him working at a soup kitchen.
- Little Boy Beard, the bearded, super-strong child of Fresh Upp Plenty. And for that matter, Fresh Upp Plenty and Mayor Voten.
Dick Locher
- In one of the more ridiculous examples of this, a Big Bad named Big Al was introduced as a bank robber who cries a lot (Get it?). A few weeks in, Locher abruptly introduces an entirely different Villain, completely forgetting about Al.
