Cerebro

Cerebro (; Spanish for "brain", from Latin ) is a fictional device appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, the device first appeared in X-Men #7 (September 1964). Cerebro is a device used by the X-Men, primarily by their leader, Professor Charles Xavier, to detect and locate humans, particularly mutants. It was originally created by Professor X and Magneto, and later upgraded by Hank McCoy / Beast.

== Concept and creation == thumb|upright|Cerebro in X-Men #7 (September, 1964 Marvel Comics). Art by Jack Kirby. Cerebro first appeared in X-Men #7 (September 1964), created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. 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, Kirby-esque system of machines and wires that transmitted extrasensory data into Professor Xavier's private desk in another room". Kripal notes that Cerebro made multiple subsequent central appearances, including Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975), where Cerebro senses and locates a supermutant across the globe, resulting in the recreation of the X-Men team.