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Cerebro
Cerebro (; Spanish language, Spanish for "brain", from Latin ) is a fictional device appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The device is used by the X-Men (in particular, their leader, Professor X, Professor Charles Xavier) to detect humans, specifically Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutants. It was created by Professor X and Magneto (Marvel Comics), Magneto, and was later enhanced by Beast (Marvel Comics), Hank McCoy. Concept and creation Cerebro first appeared in ''X-Men'' #7 (September 1964). Professor Jeffrey J. Kripal, in his 2011 book ''Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal'', calls Cerebro "a piece of psychotronics" and describes it as "a spiderlike, Jack Kirby, Kirby-esque system of machines and wires that transmitted extrasensory data into Professor Xavier's private desk in another room".Jeffrey J. Kripal, ''Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal'' (2011), p. 208. Kripal notes that ...
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