The Brave and the Bold #200
In *The Brave and the Bold #200* (1983), writer Mike W. Barr and artist Dave Gibbons explore the eerie duality of Brimstone through a haunting tale of two worlds and two selves. As one Brimstone’s spirit crosses from Earth-2 to Earth-1 in 1983, he finds himself pitted against a Batman he never expected—only to be defeated again, leaving his original body trapped in silence. Cover by Jim Aparo captures the story’s dark, otherworldly tension.
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The story explains how 2 different personas for Brimstone exist: Both aware somehow of each others' existences on a spiritual level. In 1955, on Earth-2, Brimstone's defeated by Batman and sent to prison, but later transfers his 'spiritual' essence to his doppelganger on Earth-1 in 1983 to restart his criminal empire. He learns of a Batman on this world, but is also defeated here by him. When his essence returns to its own body, it is a vegetable by this time, trapping him there for the rest of his natural life, while his 'good' Earth-1 counterpart is unaware of what happened.
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