Garth Story 008: Garth Versus The Brain

Writer: Don Freeman

Artist: Stephen Dowling and Dick Hailstone

Published: 28th April 1947 - 15th August 1947 (F100 - F194)

Number of Episodes: 95

Having wrested control of Villani’s citadel, Garth invites the formerly oppressed local people to occupy it. But as Villani died the Brain had absorbed from his mind all his cunning and guile. Garth gradually loses the radiant energy from his body, but the immobile Brain still retains it, and the power to destroy assailants entering its machine room.

Garth activates a switch operating a super-metal insulating door to the room, so there is a stand-off.

The Brain broadcasts sound waves throughout the city and outside, exhorting the brutal Janus, Villani’s former Janissary whom Garth had exiled, to gain recruits to attack the city and kill Garth.

Garth realizes the Brain is vulnerable to a dynamite explosion from the cellars beneath it, and risking his life succeeds in blowing it up. Janus is killed in a final showdown with Garth, thanks to an invention of Lumiere’s derived from the insulated door.

Synopsis by Philip Harbottle

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