Cover: Win Mortimer

Detective Comics #210

Aug 1954 · DC · 0.10 USD

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“The Brain That Ruled Gotham City!”

In "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.

artist Dick Sprang · inker Charles Paris · cover Win Mortimer

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artist Dick Sprang

inker Charles Paris

cover pencils, inks Win Mortimer

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Condemned crime boss "Brains" Hobson vows to return after being executed in the electric chair. Soon after, Hobson's body disappears and his gang is gathered to find that his brain has been transplanted into a special tank and is still capable of giving orders and planning crimes.

Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).