The First Brainiac (Or the Sixth?)

In Jimmy Olsen #28, Jimmy gets caught in a whirlwind that Superman created to dwell a typhoon from hitting Metropolis, and is transported to the Metropolis of 5921.  He is startled to study that he’s reviled because the one who killed Superman, procedure abet in 1958 (when the memoir used to be published).  He is arrested, nonetheless hopes to salvage off as there are completely no witnesses who can attest to his identification. 

DOH! That is the April 1958 topic, which came out three months sooner than the principle green-skinned, crimson-shirted Brainiac memoir in Action #242.  So is that this the principle Brainiac?  Or since it takes set practically 40 centuries in due route, successfully after the Legion of Natty Heroes Brainiac 5’s technology, is it the sixth?  This time lumber industry can obvious manufacture things confusing!

We study on the pause of the memoir that Jimmy’s abolish of the Man of Metal used to be undoubtedly faked; it used to be all a ruse that Superman had reach up with to trick a gang.  Later, Superman hurls a time pill into the long trip to clear Jimmy’s precise identify.