Big Jim Martin

Big Jim Martin

A cunning gangland czar whose capture by Superman in March-April 1949, along with that of his principal underworld subordinates, comes as the culmination of an elaborate ruse, devised by Superman with the aid of a scientist named Dr. Carr, in which Carr announces the invention of an amazing “predictor”, an ingenious “super-calculating machine” which, “if you give it the necessary information ... will infallibly predict how a situation will work out”, and then proceeds to convince the world of its absolute reliability as part of a complex overall scheme to trick Martin’s underlings into making full confessions and then hoodwink Martin into revealing the secret hiding place of his vast store of ill-gotten loot (WF No. 39: “The Fatal Forecasts!”). (TGSB)