Dalton Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo asks hard questions.

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – ?), is an investigative journalist and secret crime-fighter.

Trumbo and Alan Turing were life-long friends.

Trumbo delivered Turing's eulogy, and continued to champion Turing's name until his own disappearance some years later.

Trumbo and C. Wright Mills are widely rumored to have formed a crime-fighting team which secretly took down Murder, Incorporated.

Trumbo is widely thought to have secretly played the role of Commissioner Gordon in many classic Batman stories.

See The Big Con (nonfiction).

Trumbo wrote a prize-winning series about the Pi disaster.

Trumbo discovered the source code for ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication"), a secret effort by the Allies (nonfiction) to contact alien civilizations.

Trumbo published a best-selling analysis of the ENIAC source code, along with much of the source code itself.

Trumbo and Brainiac are enemies.

Trumbo's disappearance has been widely debated. Theories include:

• Trumbo was murdered (or abducted and secretly imprisoned) for political reasons
• Trumbo faked his own death in order to pursue his goals under a new identity
• Trumbo took his own life in such as manner as to pursue his goals from beyond the grave
• Trumbo was not an investigative journalist and secret crime-fighter at all, but a non-fictional man named Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)

In the News

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  Dalton Trumbo refuses to betray friends and principles, enjoys state-sponsored meals for nearly a year.

Fiction cross-reference

• Alan Turing
• Brainiac
• C. Wright Mills
• ENIAC (SETI)

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)
• Investigative journalist (nonfiction)
• Murder, Incorporated (nonfiction)