History: (Justice League of America I #6) - Amos Fortune was always interested in luck, and investigated the phenomenon first as a gambler and then as a scientist. He discovered unsuspected twin glands in the human body that governed luck, and developed the Stimoluck that could cause good or bad fortune for people. As a trial run he caused each member of the Justice League of America to have a run of bad luck on cases. He then gave himself good luck, winning at horse races and in the stock market. He attracted the League’s attention when he bought antique fenceposts at the Deeping farm that contained a fortune. When the JlofA captured custodian Charles Hobart, who’d been stealing from the Sea Dunes museum Fortune stumbled upon Hobart’s caches of valuable art objects. The League pursued him, but he had the good luck to capture all of them. He tied them to a Wheel of Misfortune that would destroy the human glands that gave people good luck and would cause the League to forever after have bad luck. The Wheel only affected human physiology, so Martian Manhunter was able to escape, disable the machine and defeat Amos Fortune.