The Brain #7
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeBenjamin Bang, known as "the Brain," encounters a series of humorous situations involving school and household mishaps. In one story, a mouse in the schoolhouse causes chaos when Benjamin tries to catch it, resulting in destruction that he must explain to the principal. The issue also features "Brainstorms," an illustrated sequence showing an elaborate Rube Goldberg-style contraption that Benjamin devises as an alarm clock, involving magnifying glasses, a porcupine, a toad, and a lightning bug, which ultimately wakes him with a loud clang from an iron ball dropping into a pot.
When Benjamin whips up a chemical mixture from his chemistry set hoping to disappear like a character from the movies, he actually succeeds—and as "the invisible Brain," he wastes no time having fun with his newfound ability, playing pranks on his friends and family. But invisibility comes with consequences, and Benjamin soon discovers that his miraculous potion doesn't last as long as he'd hoped. A lighthearted tale about a young inventor learning that even the coolest tricks have their limits.
When a mouse invades Miss Doozey's classroom, Russel the Muscle charges in to catch it—but his brute force approach turns the school into complete chaos. As the frantic chase tears through classrooms and hallways, everyone from the principal to the teachers scrambles to contain the mayhem before things get even worse.
Wizard and Genius Dummo test their new hearing aid invention and stumble upon a scared cat stuck in a tree—sparking a race against the Brain himself to see who can rescue her first. The Dummo brothers hatch a clever plan using a cat costume, but their scheme quickly spirals into hilarious chaos with the fire department caught in the middle. Will their brainy (if chaotic) solution prove them smarter than the Brain, or will good intentions pave the road to disaster?
When his father assigns him weekend chores around the house, a resourceful boy decides to use his "brainstorms" to turn tedious repairs and yard work into automated solutions—though each clever invention seems to backfire in increasingly chaotic ways. From a cement-slinging contraption to a runaway self-propelled mower, his well-meaning shortcuts prove that sometimes the simplest approach beats the cleverest scheme. By the time the dust settles, his father decides it might be time to call in some actual help.
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Reprinted in The Brain #9 (1958)
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