Dan Brandon

“The Prominent civic reformer” at the head of a citywide campaign to persuade the mayor and the city council to replace Metropolis’s worn-out streetcars with newer, safer buses, and the secret mastermind behind an elaborate scheme to sabotage the city’s streetcars—thus causing a series of serious accidents designed to spur the streetcar replacement effort—so that he can heap lavish under-the-table commissions on the sale of new buses to the city. Superman is instrumental in bringing about the much-needed replacement of the antiquated streetcars, but he also apprehends the evil Branson in Winter 1941 (WF No. 4: “The Case of the Crime Crusade”).