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☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Concluding: 'Operation Brainstrike'" delivers a delightfully bizarre sci-fi twist in this 1970 gem from C.C.A.S. Publications, where honeymooners Bill and Brenda Rodberry find themselves stranded on Neptune after a crash landing. Captured by the grotesque, brain-preserving scientist Octavius Kharsov—whose mind inhabits a robotic form—Brenda soon uncovers a chilling truth: the man she thought was her husband is actually Kharsov in disguise, having swapped bodies with Bill. With a sharp pair of surgical scissors and a cryogenic plan, she takes control of her fate in a moment that’s equal parts suspense and surreal. Steve Hickman’s art and Phil Trumbo’s inks bring the story’s eerie tone to life, while Gray Morrow’s cover captures the unsettling blend of romance and sci-fi horror that defines the issue.
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When honeymooners Bill and Brenda Rodberry crash-land on Neptune, they are captured by evil scientist Octavius Kharsov, whose brain is preserved within a robot body. Kharsov announces plans to inseminate Brenda using his own preserved semen, but when Bill visits Brenda in her rooms that night, she quickly deduces he's really Kharsov, who has managed to switch bodies with her husband. She promptly kills Bill's body with a pair of surgical scissors and places herself in a cryogenic sleep alongside Bill's now disembodied brain, to await eventual rescue.
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