Mad Jim Jaspers

Mad Jim Jaspers
Mad Jim Jaspers. Art by Alan Davis.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics (formerly Marvel UK)
First appearance	Marvel Superheroes #377 (September 1981)
Created by	Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis
In-story information
Alter ego	Sir James Jaspers
Species	Human Mutant
Team affiliations	UK parliament the Hellfire Club The Crazy Gang
Partnerships	The Fury
Notable aliases	The Reality Butcher, The Crooked Man
Abilities	Reality warping Shapeshifting Regeneration

Sir James Jaspers (aka Mad Jim Jaspers) is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Dave Thorpe and Alan Davis for the Captain Britain stories in Marvel UK comics and later developed by Alan Moore.

Jaspers was a British member of Parliament with a mutated brain that enabled him to alter reality; an unfortunate side effect of this power was that it quickly drove him mad once he began to use it on a larger scale. He led an anti-superhuman campaign so that he could play with the world without interference. His character design was based on the English comic actor Terry-Thomas.

Captain Britain first encounters Jaspers when he travels to an alternative temporal reality with Jackdaw. They interrupt a bank robbery being perpetrated by the "Crazy Gang", a criminal group themed around characters from Alice in Wonderland, with Jaspers taking the role of The Hatter.

It is later revealed that before indulging in a life of crime, Jaspers was a member of Parliament who successfully campaigned for the outlawing of superheroes. He then created The Fury, a highly adaptable cyborg created to exterminate superheroes. Within two years all the superhumans of the world (many of them referencing classic British comic characters like Marvelman and the Steel Claw) had been killed by the Fury. The only surviving superhero of this world, Captain UK, had fled to Earth-616 and abandoned her heroic identity. The Fury was programmed not to kill Jaspers, who himself had the ability to warp reality to his will at the cost of his own sanity.