"The Brain was a costumed character created by Leo Bachle for Bell Features, a Canadian comic company in the 1940s, and first appeared in Active Comics #1. The muscular and often bare-chested Brain's secret identity was dashing, Toronto penthouse-dwelling Gordon Bell who, like the Wizard before him, had a Moustache, superhuman strength and the clairvoyant ability to \"visualize faraway happenings\", the latter powers in his case gained due to a dying wish his father had made to a friendly spirit on a distant French battlefield during World War One. While he first donned cape, tights and signature black skullcap-mask to battle Nazi agents, his adventures soon took on a more supernatural element, with him battling such inhuman adversaries as the sinister Dr. Coffin's ghoulish creation the Scarlet Zombie and the sadistic skull-faced and bandage-wrapped Mummy Man who possessed psychic powers that were more than a match for his own. Friend and fellow artist Ross Saakel did a pint-sized parody of Bachle's character for Active Comics called The Noodle, a similarly caped and cowled two-fisted infant superhero complete with diapers and pacifier."@en . . . . "February"@en . . . "The Brain was a costumed character created by Leo Bachle for Bell Features, a Canadian comic company in the 1940s, and first appeared in Active Comics #1. The muscular and often bare-chested Brain's secret identity was dashing, Toronto penthouse-dwelling Gordon Bell who, like the Wizard before him, had a Moustache, superhuman strength and the clairvoyant ability to \"visualize faraway happenings\", the latter powers in his case gained due to a dying wish his father had made to a friendly spirit on a distant French battlefield during World War One."@en . . . . . . . "1942"^^ . "Superhuman strength"@en . . "Active Comics #1"@en . . "The Brain (Bell comics)"@en . . "Gordon Bell"@en . . . .