Braintrust

Braintrust © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: (assumed) Deceased Real Name: Brian Thaddeus Rusk Earliest Appearance: 1968 Base of Operations: City Center part of town Personal Data Date of Birth: 11/02/1931 InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #1, 2 Event Timeline Braintrust An Astro City mob leader of the 1970s. History Excerpt from an Astro City Police Department file: A genius inventor crippled by polio. Rusk was victimized by business interests, notably Clement Technologies, who marketed Rusk's discoveries but refused to pay him agreed-upon profit shares. Incensed, he constructed a robotic body and had his brain transplanted into it, attacking and killing those he felt had wronged him. He salvaged their brains, however, hooking them up to his own in a "gestalt" arrangement to give him greater and faster "computing power." Braintrust controlled the mob activity in the City Center part of town in the mid 1970s. He used The Dominos as one of his groups of henchmen. He wss one of the leaders who took part in the 1977 Gang War, in which his forces were decimated and Braintrust presumed destroyed. Powers His robot body gives great strength as well as the ability to levitate objects. Observations He also seemed to incur the wrath of Hellhound, possibly hurting a woman Hellhound cared deeply about.