Brainiac (comics)
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Brainiac battling Superman during the Infinite Crisis event. Cover art for Superman vol. 2, #219, by Ed Benes.
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| Publisher | DC Comics |
| First appearance | Action Comics #242 (July 1958) |
| Created by |
Otto Binder (writer) Al Plastino (artist) |
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| Alter ego | Vril Dox |
| Species | Coluan |
| Place of origin | Colu |
| Team affiliations | Anti-Justice League |
| Partnerships | Lex Luthor |
| Notable aliases | Dr. Milton Fine, Pulsar Stargrave, The Terror of Kandor, Collector of Worlds |
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Brainiac is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly as an adversary of Superman. The character first appeared in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), and was created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino.
Brainiac is typically depicted as an extraterrestrial android. He is one of Superman's primary enemies, and is responsible for shrinking and stealing Kandor, the capital city of Superman's home planet Krypton. Due to multiple revisions of DC's continuity, several variations of Brainiac have appeared. Most incarnations of Brainiac depict him as a green-skinned being in humanoid form. He is bald, with a set of linked electrode-like objects (sometimes glowing) protruding from his skull.
The character's name appears to be a portmanteau of the word brain and the initialism ENIAC, the name of an early computer. In 2009, Brainiac was ranked as IGN's 17th Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time.
First appearing in Action Comics #242 (July 1958), Brainiac is a bald, green-skinned humanoid who arrived on Earth and shrank various cities, including Metropolis, storing them in bottles with the intent of using them to restore the then-unnamed planet he ruled. He is originally notable only for his having shrunk the bottle city of Kandor, for having a shrinking ray, and for using a force-shield.
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