==Concept and creation== Cerebro first appeared in X-Men #7 (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, Kirby-esque system of machines and wires that transmitted extrasensory data into......