MR. PARADOX

Real Name: C.K. Nevins

Class: Human technology-user

Occupation: Businessman, criminal

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Gotham City, 1940s era

First Appearance: Green Lantern I #38 (May-June, 1949)

Powers: Mr. Paradox based his crimes on logical paradoxes, and wielded a stickpin with a gem on the end that could hypnotize targets.

History: (Green Lantern I #38) - WXYZ president was planning on cancelling Clay Chalmers brainteaser show Mr. Paradox, so Alan Scott and Doiby called on manufacturer C.K. Nevins to sponsor the show. Chalmers' show was about Achilles and the Tortoise, but Nevins was unimpressed, and the show was cancelled. Chalmers said there was only one thing for him to do, so Alan sent Doiby to follow him and make sure he didn't do anything stupid. He lost track of him, but found a costumed man carrying a stickpin named Mr. Paradox robbing Nevins' factory after hypnotizing the workers, and he sent off his signal-rocket, summoning GL. Mr. Paradox hypnotized GL so that even though Paradox was walking away and GL was flying after him he couldn't keep up. GL suspected Chalmers had snapped and turned to crime, and found Paradox and his gang planning a job at Chalmer's house. The gang defeated Doiby and GL, and Paradox rejected his gang's idea of just shooting the heroes, wanting to make a statement about paradoxes. Demonstrating the paradox of dancing balls he placed them in glass spheres and set them atop a fountain while an automated machinegun fired at them. The heroes escaped and foiled Paradox and his gang from robbing a Nevins delivery freight train loaded with gems. GL unmasked Paradox, revealing him to be C.K. Nevins. Nevins had gone bankrupt, and when Chalmers went back home to Indiana he came up with the idea of framing him for the robberies while collecting the insurance money.

Comments: Created by Robert Kanigher & Irwin Hasen.