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Post by rberman on Nov 26, 2019 14:13:07 GMT -5
What comic book stories involve either brains or minds being transplanted from one living being into another? One of the earliest comic book examples is from Detective Comics #6 (1937). Hard to get older than that! A mad scientist puts a human brain into an ape body. I am sure there are older versions in myths and fairy tales as well. What other examples come to mind from comic books?  |
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Post by chadwilliam on Nov 26, 2019 14:32:24 GMT -5
I've wondered if the reason Siegel and Shuster simply got rid of The Ultra-Humanite and replaced him with Luthor was due to a sense that the character had just gotten too weird for them. Luthor-like at first, The Humanite soon found himself transplanting his brain into actress Dolores Winters. As cool as that is, I wonder if Superman's creators felt that they had written themselves into a corner by distancing themselves too much from the original inception of the character and wanted to go back their original plan, hence the introduction of Luthor.
The Fighting American was in reality weakling Nelson Flagg who idolized his older brother Johnny. When Johnny is killed, Nelson had his mind transferred into his brother's body and The Fighting American was born. The recent series by Titan Comics played this up quite a bit - arriving in the present day with little inclination as to how creepy such a revelation would be, The Fighting American's modern day liason would be shown constantly muttering to herself "please don't tell people you're in your dead's brother's body please don't tell people you're in your dead brother's body please don't tell..." while from afar you could hear the hero telling reporters "and my murdered brother, whose body I now occupy...". Pretty funny stuff.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 26, 2019 14:58:31 GMT -5
Marvel had Roy Thomas' Skrull fighting 1950's 3-D Man. Pilot Chuck Chandler's XF-13 rocket plane explodes when he crashes after escaping from Skrulls' and the radiation causes Chuck to be fused into a pair of glasses. When his brother Hal puts on the glasses Chuck comes forth transforming Hal into Chuck with 3 times the speed, strength and durability.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 26, 2019 18:07:47 GMT -5
Batman: Blind Justice had a ton of body swapping, both for Batman and the villain.
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Post by beccabear67 on Nov 26, 2019 18:26:41 GMT -5
What comic book stories involve either brains or minds being transplanted from one living being into another? One of the earliest comic book examples is from Detective Comics #6 (1937). Hard to get older than that! A mad scientist puts a human brain into an ape body. I am sure there are older versions in myths and fairy tales as well. What other examples come to mind from comic books? That is early! Reminds of DCs much later Congorilla a tiny bit. I was just reading 2000 era Fantastic Four (by Chris Claremont) where Reed Richards is trapped in Doctor Doom's armor, has to pretend to be him to keep world order, and marries Sue Richards! It says he has Victor Von Doom's retinal scans, but at the end of this saga when Reed is forcibly evicted from the armor he seems to be the same Reed Richards as before physically (if not mentally). Another example, also by Claremont, that comes to mind was future Kate Pryde going back to her 13 year old self in The X-Men. |
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Post by badwolf on Nov 26, 2019 19:37:06 GMT -5
Doctor Doom swapped his mind with that of a bystander to avoid being obliterated in the conflict between the Silver Surfer and Tyros the Terrible:  The Ultra-Humanite put his brain into Johnny Thunder's body. Wasn't Giganta originally a human brain placed in a gorilla? I guess Arthur Nagan doesn't count since he swapped his entire head. |
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Post by MWGallaher on Nov 26, 2019 19:55:16 GMT -5
What comic book stories involve either brains or minds being transplanted from one living being into another? One of the earliest comic book examples is from Detective Comics #6 (1937). Hard to get older than that! A mad scientist puts a human brain into an ape body. I am sure there are older versions in myths and fairy tales as well. What other examples come to mind from comic books? Interesting! I was doing some research a couple of years back into stories in which human brains are transplanted into gorilla bodies, in order to support my suspicions about the origins of the film "The Monster and the Girl" (1941). I figured there would be a lot of instances, but there are not. This issue of Detective was 10 years after what appears to be the original human-to-gorilla brain transplant story, which I suspect was the unacknowledged source for the aforementioned film. I dug up a scan of the Detective Comics story online, but it's too insubstantial to trace directly to that earlier story, so, unlike the film, it may not have been a swipe job. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2019 22:43:56 GMT -5
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #166 167 168  |
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 27, 2019 5:42:44 GMT -5
I guess Arthur Nagan doesn't count since he swapped his entire head. Yes, but his fellow Headman, Chondu the Mystic does count: in Defenders #s 31-35, he had his brain put into Nighthawk's body. And then when the Defenders figured it out, they put Chondu's brain into a small deer's body, and Jack Norriss' brain into Nighthawk's body (all the while, poor Kyle's brain was sloshing about in a fish bowl or something like that). Everything worked out, though, as all of the disembodied brains were returned to their respective bodies - although the rest of the Headman pimped out Chondu's body while his brain was away on business. Here's a before and after shot:
He was not, however, pleased with the upgrades.
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Post by rberman on Nov 27, 2019 8:00:48 GMT -5
The example that got me thinking about this topic came from Daredevil #15.  |
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Post by DubipR on Nov 27, 2019 10:04:11 GMT -5
First person I can think of Ultra-Humanite, who appeared in Action #13  |
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Post by brutalis on Nov 27, 2019 10:05:24 GMT -5
Surprised nobody has mentioned yet the recent Superior Spider-Man switch of Octavius mind in Petey Parker's body.
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Post by rberman on Nov 27, 2019 10:10:48 GMT -5
What comic book stories involve either brains or minds being transplanted from one living being into another? One of the earliest comic book examples is from Detective Comics #6 (1937). Hard to get older than that! A mad scientist puts a human brain into an ape body. I am sure there are older versions in myths and fairy tales as well. What other examples come to mind from comic books? Interesting! I was doing some research a couple of years back into stories in which human brains are transplanted into gorilla bodies, in order to support my suspicions about the origins of the film "The Monster and the Girl" (1941). I figured there would be a lot of instances, but there are not. This issue of Detective was 10 years after what appears to be the original human-to-gorilla brain transplant story, which I suspect was the unacknowledged source for the aforementioned film. I dug up a scan of the Detective Comics story online, but it's too insubstantial to trace directly to that earlier story, so, unlike the film, it may not have been a swipe job. What was the original story that you found? |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Nov 27, 2019 10:26:21 GMT -5
Interesting. I figured this trope originated with that literary classic Freaky Friday.
The latter parts of Ultimate Spider-Man (first series) had Spidey and Wolverine do the brain tango.
Doc Doom and Daredevil brain swapped a few years after the first example given. Not sure why Doomsy thought this would give him an advantage?
The Silver Age mini-series, circa the year 2000, had the SA JLA and a cobbled together version of the Injustice Gang swap brains.
Probably doesn't count but I'm curious: What happened to the other half of Psylocke?
And this HAS to have happened in Archie, right?
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Post by badwolf on Nov 27, 2019 10:52:14 GMT -5
How could I have forgotten the "musical brains" in DEFENDERS!
And of course the JLA/SSOSV story!
Doctor Sun, a Dracula foe, was a brain in a jar who later got a robotic body (in the pages of NOVA, I think) and finally inhabited the much loved H.E.R.B.I.E. before finally being destroyed (though I suppose his consciousness could still be "out there".)
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