Only the brain survives, which Caulder plans on putting into a robotic body. His colleague Niles Caulder grows jealous of his work and arranges for the Brain to get caught in an explosion, which destroys his body. One of these is on a gorilla, who he names Monsieur Mallah and educates for almost a decade before making him his personal assistant. Fictional character biography Īs a scientist, the Brain performs experiments on animals to raise their intelligence. Often times, I wrote the same storylines for the comedy stuff that I wrote for the serious stuff.
Drake later commented: 'I used that same concept in a Jerry Lewis comic book, and in a Bob Hope comic I had a totem pole that talked to him.
The Brain first appeared in Doom Patrol #86 (March 1964) and was created by Arnold Drake and Bruno Premiani.
