History ComicBook / BrotherPowerTheGeek

Brother Power the Geek is a comic book character created in the late 1960s for Creator/DCComics by Joe Simon. He first appeared in ''Brother Power the Geek'' #1.

The concept behind Brother Power was derived heavily from Creator/MaryShelley's ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' (although reanimation with the use of lightning comes from the [[Film/Frankenstein1931 1931 movie]] rather than the novel). At the same time, Simon was also attempting to capture the sort of "wandering outcast philosopher" characterization that made Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'': a cult hit among the college student readers of the period.

Brother Power is not truly alive rather he is the result of some bizarre transformation of unliving material to living. He originates in the 1960's when a small group of hippies living in an abandoned tailor shop put on old suit on a dummy and the combination of rain, dust, the heat from a radiator and a lightning strike brought the dummy to life. The hippies later discovered the now almost alive dummy and named him Brother Power.

* NewAgeRetroHippie: Brother Power is very much this, being a clothing store mannequin [[LightningCanDoAnything brought to life by a lightning bolt]] and befriended by a group of Hippies who dress him in "hip threads" and teach him all about Love and Peace. HilarityEnsues.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Creator/{{Vertigo}} version of Brother Power, by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred, features a brief return of Brother Power's adversary, Lord Sliderule, now in a business suit, and depicted Brother Power being forced to perform as a circus geek, eating live animals for the first time. Eventually, after more misadventures with the establishment, he is reunited with Cindy (the hippie who had given him his face), now a prostitute, and is destroyed in his original form while saving her life; however, he ultimately survives by possessing one of her dolls.

The hippies around Brother Power took an immediate liking to him and taught him to speak and sent him to school. Through the course of his adventures, Brother Power ran for Congress, was imprisoned as a circus freak, and forced to work on an assembly line by the villainous Lord Sliderule. While attempting to escape from Sliderule and the police, Brother Power hid himself away in an experimental missile and was launched into orbit around Earth. He was later discovered by a number of magicians and discovered that he is in fact a form of a puppet elemental. He has since been seen a few times in continuity and interacts with superheroes now, having crossed paths with the likes of ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' and ComicBook/ThePhantomStranger.

The hippies around Brother Power took an immediate liking to him and taught him to speak and sent him to school. Through the course of his adventures, Brother Power ran for Congress, was imprisoned as a circus freak, and forced to work on an assembly line by the villainous Lord Sliderule. While attempting to escape from Sliderule and the police, Brother Power hid himself away in an experimental missile and was launched into orbit around Earth. He was later discovered by a number of magicians and discovered that he is in fact a form of a puppet elemental. He has since been seen a few times in continuity and interacts with superheroes now, having crossed paths with the likes of ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' and the ComicBook/PhantomStranger.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Creator/{{Vertigo}} version of Brother Power, by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred, a brief return of Brother Power's adversary, Lord Sliderule, now in a business suit, and depicted Brother Power being forced to perform as a circus geek, eating live animals for the first time. Eventually, after more misadventures with the establishment, he is reunited with Cindy (the hippie who had given him his face), now a prostitute, and is destroyed in his original form while saving her life; however, he ultimately survives by possessing one of her dolls.
* EnergyAbsorbtion: If injured to the point of unconsciousness, Brother Power can revive by recharging himself with energy.

The hippies around Brother Power took an immediate liking to him and taught him to speak and sent him to school. Through the course of his adventures, Brother Power ran for Congress, was imprisoned as a circus freak, and forced to work on an assembly line by the villainous Lord Sliderule. While attempting to escape from Sliderule and the police, Brother Power hid himself away in an experimental missile and was launched into orbit around Earth. He was later discovered by a number of magicians and discovered that he is in fact a form of a puppet elemental. He has since been seen a few times in continuity and interacts with superheroes now, having crossed paths with the likes of Batman and the Phantom Stranger.

* PuttingOnTheReich: In #2, Hound Dawg and his war hawk cronies appear with uniforms and gadgetry evocative of Nazis.

Brother Power is not truly alive rather he is the result of some bizarre transformation of living material to living. He originates in the 1960's when a small group of hippies living in an abandoned tailor shop put on old suit on a dummy and the combination of rain, dust, the heat from a radiator and a lightning strike brought the dummy to life. The hippies later discovered the now almost alive dummy and named him Brother Power.

* CircusOfFear: Brother Power was imprisoned as a circus freak at5 the Psychedelic Circus.

* NewAgeRetroHippie: Brother Power is very much this, being a clothing store mannequin brought to life by a lightning bolt and befriended by a group of Hippies who dress him in "hip threads" and teach him all about Love and Peace. Hilarity Ensues.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Brother Power's archenemy is Lord Sliderule. Lord Sliderule is the wicked owner of the J.P. Acme Corporation. He took over just as Brother Power was hired, and decided to use the cloth man help him run the company more efficiently.

* CorruptCoroporateExecutive: Brother Power's ArchEnenemy is Lord Sliderule. Lord Sliderule is the wicked owner of the J.P. Acme Corporation. He took over just as Brother Power was hired, and decided to use the cloth man help him run the company more efficiently.

Brother Power the Geek is a comic book character created in the late 1960s for DC Comics by Joe Simon. He first appeared in ''Brother Power the Geek'' #1.

The concept behind Brother Power was derived heavily from Creator/MaryShelley's ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}} (although reanimation with the use of lightning comes from the [[Film/Frankenstein1931 1931 movie]] rather than the novel). At the same time, Simon was also attempting to capture the sort of "wandering outcast philosopher" characterization that made Creator/MarvelComics' ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'': a cult hit among the college student readers of the period.