Al Jones

Al Jones

A onetime vaudeville magician, stage name Ali Singh, who begins receiving programs from the near future on his television set after its antenna is exposed to lightning during a freak electrical storm.

Photographing news programs from the future as they appear on his TV screen, Jones acquires photos of Superman in action and enters them in the Daily Planet's Superman action-photo contest in hopes of using the prize money to buy an urgently needed operation for crippled neighbor boy Bobby Forbes.

Ironically, however, although Jones’s photos are indeed spectacular, the contest’s winning photo is taken by Bobby Forbes himself as he watches Superman in action from the window of his home (S No. 120/2, Mar 1958: “The Super-Feats Superman Forgot”) (TGSB).