Singer Going With Brainiac for The Man Of Steel ?

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While he is a worthy foe in this day and time, he has had many incantations in the past too.

Hollywood North Report brings this character up to date.

According to reports, 1950’s DC Comics villain ‘Brainiac’, the main villain in producer Jon Peter’s early Superman Reborn and Superman Lives screenplays, will be the antagonist in director Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns sequel, Superman: The Man Of Steel.

The character has appeared in almost 50 years of “Superman” comic books, a “Super Friends” animated TV show and the current, Vancouver-filmed, live-action Smallville series.

Created by Otto Binder (of ‘Adam Link’ fame), ‘Brainiac’ debuted in “Action Comics” #242, July 1958.

In storylines involving time travel and cloning, many variations of Brainiac have appeared, originally a green-skinned alien android from the planet ‘Colu’, capable of manipulating computer systems, exerting control over time and responsible for shrinking ‘Kandor’, the bottled, surviving capital city of Superman’s destroyed home planet ‘Krypton’.

The concept of Brainiac next appeared in “Action Comics” #276, in a “Legion of Super-Heroes” back-up story, depicted as blond-haired teen ‘Querl Dox’, aka ‘Brainiac 5’, 30th century descendant of the original.

In “Superman” #167, February 1964, Brainiac was revealed as a spy machine created by the ‘Computer Tyrants of Colu’.

By Action Comics #544, June 1983, Brainiac was forced to outfit himself with a new skeleton body of living metal topped by a honeycomb-patterned ‘braincase’.

Introduced in Season 5 of live-action “Superman” TV series Smallville, Brainiac (James Marsters) is a recurring villain, referred to as ‘Professor Milton Fine’, aka ‘Brain InterActive Construct’, or ‘Brainiac’.