The man known as Mr. Crime was the head of a nationwide criminal syndicate (a forerunner of The Apparatus), who operated out of Dick Tracy's city. He also went by the name George Alpha, which turned out to be an alias shortened from his real name, George Alphanone. Mr. Crime was an older man, with white hair and a moustache. He had light eyes, and seemed to suffer from exotropia, a condition that makes the eyes drift outward (the opposite of being cross-eyed).