First appearance Watchmen #2 (1986)
A crime boss from the 1940s through the 1960s, he ran an underground vice den and constructed a solar mirror weapon as part of his nefarious schemes. Over the course of his criminal career, he clashed with Nite Owls, Ozymandias, and Doctor Manhattan. Eventually captured, he spent the 1970s in prison, where he converted to Christianity and gave up his life of crime. At some point during that time, he worked for a company run by Adrian Veidt, Dimensional Developments, where he contracted cancer. Following his release, he lived alone in New York City, until his murder in 1985 as part of Ozymandias' plot.
Though a secondary character and well past his criminal phase in life, Jacobi serves an important role in the Watchmen story; it is he who is first confronted in his bedroom one night by the Comedian, Edward Blake, who reveals his recent discovery of Ozymandias' plot to stop an impending nuclear crisis between the Soviet Union and the United States. Unbeknowst to either Jacobi or Blake, Ozymandias had bugged Jacobi's apartment.
Later, Jacobi is harshly interrogated several times by Rorschach, who is investigating Blake's murder. Rorschach returns one night to find Jacobi murdered, an obvious frameup. Rorschach is captured and remanded to prison.
Abilities
Ruthless criminal mastermind, effective planner and organizer. "Solar mirror weapon".
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