#Krypton green series
Koko was quickly dropped from Brainiac's stories, but a version of the monkey has made sporadic appearances as the villain's pet in the series Justice and the 2008 storyline "Brainiac" in Action Comics. In his initial story, he also traveled with a white alien monkey named Koko the monkey also appears in a 1960 Superman story retelling the story of Kandor's disappearance ( Superman #141 (November 1960)). He was originally notable only for having shrunk the bottle city of Kandor with his shrinking ray and for using a force field. īrainiac is a bald, green-skinned humanoid who arrives on Earth and shrinks various cities, including Metropolis, storing them in bottles with the intent of using them to restore the then-unnamed planet he ruled. This cross-continuity conflict was not unprecedented in 1958 and '59, editor Mort Weisinger used the comic strip to prototype a number of concepts that he planned to introduce in the book, including Bizarro and red Kryptonite. The strip's Kryptonian bottled city was named Dur-El-Va. In the comic strip story, Superman's foe was named Romado, who traveled the cosmos with a white alien monkey named Koko, shrinking major cities and keeping them in glass jars. The first Brainiac/Kandor comic book story in Action Comics #242 (July 1958) was based on a story arc in the Superman comic strip from April through August 1958. In live-action television, Brainiac has been portrayed by James Marsters on Smallville and by Blake Ritson on Krypton.įictional character biography Silver Age He has been substantially adapted into various forms of media, having been voiced by Corey Burton in the DC Animated Universe, John Noble in the animated film Superman: Unbound, and Jeffrey Combs in the video game Injustice 2. In 2009, Brainiac was ranked by IGN’s as 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. The character's name is a portmanteau of the words brain and maniac. He is known for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Superman's home planet Krypton, and is even responsible for Krypton's destruction in some continuities.
#Krypton green android
Brainiac is usually depicted as an extraterrestrial android or cyborg and enemy of Superman and the Justice League. The character was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino and first appeared in Action Comics #242 in July 1958. Superhuman strength, durability, and speedīrainiac is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
Brainiac in Superman: Secret Files and Origins 2009 (October 2009).
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