(April-June 1962)
- Price:
- 0.15 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- ?
- Indicia Publisher:
- Dell Publishing Co., Inc.
- Brand:
- Dell
- Editing:
- Don Arneson
- Color:
- Color
- Dimensions:
- Standard Golden Age U.S.; Standard Silver Age U.S.
- Paper Stock:
- Glossy Cover; Newsprint Interior
- Binding:
- Saddle-stitched
- Publishing Format:
- Was Ongoing Series
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BRAIN BOY #1330." No code number.
Dictionary of "Psychic Words"
filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Gil Kane
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- non-fiction
- Synopsis:
- Examples of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnotism, and percognition.
Indexer Notes
inside front cover; black and white. Illustrations with text beneath.
Brain Boy
Brain Boy / comic story / 32 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Herb Kastle
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- spy; superhero
- Characters:
- Brain Boy [Matt Price] (origin); Ricorta (villain)
- Synopsis:
- Matt Price is gifted with incredible psychic powers when his mother is involved in a car crash involving high voltage electric wire while she is pregnant with him. At his senior prom he is approached by a government agent who is a telepath and Matt is hired to work undercover. Nicknamed "Brain Boy," his first assignment is to travel to Xochtan, a small South American country; with Hillary Gomez, a famed classical composer, who had escaped from from Xochtan as a youth. Matt must protect Gomez and himself from Ricorta, the telepath of the dictator General Droz.
Indexer Notes
Story continues in Brain Boy #2.
[Hypnotism]
Adventures in the Unknown / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Gil Kane
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- non-fiction
- Characters:
- John Park; William Reed
- Synopsis:
- The case of John Park, who related experiences happening on whaling ships half a world away when he was hypnotized by William Reed in 1850.
Indexer Notes
Inside back cover; black and white.
Animal Miracles
Adventures in the Unknown / filler / 1 page
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Gil Kane
- Inks:
- Gil Kane
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- non-fiction
- Synopsis:
- Facts about dolphins and questions about types of animal behavour.
Indexer Notes
Back cover; color.
Editing
Table of Contents
-
0.
[no title indexed]
Brain Boy -
1.
Dictionary of "Psychic Words"
-
2.
Brain Boy
Brain Boy -
3.
[Hypnotism]
Adventures in the Unknown -
4.
Animal Miracles
Adventures in the Unknown
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