Last Updated on Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Milton Fine was the original Brainiac. A circus performer who used his psychic abilities to entertain. However Fine was plagued by headaches and visions that made him consider his own sanity. The cause of the headaches was the disembodied Vril Dox - a scientist from the planet Colu who was been dematerialized by his own transporter when the ruling computers of Colu had no further use for him. Dox eventually latched onto Fine's mind and began to usurp control of his body. Dox won and repressed the Fine personality combining his own mental powers with those of his new host body.

Afterwards Brainiac took over a Colu Lexcorp facility and used his psychic abilities to control genetics and cybernetics experts from around the world. He used all their resources to mutate and alter his new body into a likeness of his original and to further extend his already powerful abilities. He escaped after a brief battle with Superman.

Superman and Brainiac would repeatedly clash. The high point of their war came when Brainiac used Warworld to attack Earth alongside an enthralled Supergirl, Maxima and Draaga. He was defeated by Superman and the assembled heroes of Earth. In his search for further power Brainiac tried to possess the body of Doomsday, but only managed to loose both the bodies of Fine and Doomsday. He only managed to survive by falling back to an android body - Brainiac II.

Brainiac found himself surpassed by his own upgrade - Brainiac 13 and was forced to team-up with Lex Luthor by possessing Luthor's daughter Lena. While Brainiac 13 overtook Metropolis the villainous duo made use of a retro-engineered Warsuit to turn the battle. Superman was eventually able to defeat Brainiac 13. Before he vanished Brainiac 13 offered Luthor technical data on the new Metropolis in exchange for Dox in Lena's body. Luthor accepted the offer. The location of either Brainiac is currently unknown.