Detective Comics #210
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "The Brain That Ruled Gotham City!", a condemned criminal’s final vow from the electric chair echoes through the shadows—only to come true when his brain is secretly preserved and continues to command his gang from a mysterious tank. Dick Sprang’s dynamic art and Charles Paris’s sharp inks bring this chilling tale of posthumous vengeance to life, while Win Mortimer’s cover captures the eerie spectacle of a mind that refuses to die.
In "The Brain That Ruled Gotham City!", the cunning crime boss "Brains" Hobson, executed in the electric chair, makes a chilling promise to return—only to vanish from his cell. Soon, his gang discovers that his brain has been preserved in a tank, still alive and plotting from beyond the grave, directing their criminal operations with cold, calculating precision.
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Reprinted in Detective Comics #3 (1953), Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus #9 (2021)
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