10 Times DC Comics Lost Their Damn Minds
8. Brother Power The Geek
DC has come up with some pretty weird heroes over the years, Detective Chimp the crime-solving primate, Deadman, a man who is dead and even the strange person fusion of Firestorm. But nothing compares to Brother Power the Geek.
Brother Power was an attempt to capitalise on the hippie subculture of the 1960's. Now, you're probably expecting him to be some sort of superpowered flower child but nope, Brother Power is a shop mannequin brought to life by a bolt of lightning who dressed up in discarded hippie clothes and was kidnapped by the Psychadelic Circus.
How did he come alive you might ask? Was it a magic lightning bolt from Zeus? Was he secretly made out of alivium? Again, nope, he just randomly became alive. Maybe a later story would have elaborated more on his origin, but Brother Power the Geek was cancelled after two issues because The Man didn't like his style.
The Man in this case being DC editors who didn't like the character's connotations of drug use. It was also those connotations that got the characters name changed from Brother Power the Freak to the more nonsensical The Geek.
The weirdest part is that Brother Power was created by Joe Simon, the man who came up with Captain America.