Dalton Trumbo
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.
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)