Four Color
#1330 - Brain Boy
(April-June 1962)
Dell,
1942 Series
- Price
- 0.15 USD
- Pages
- 36
- On-sale Date
- 1962-01-25
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
- Brand
-
Dell [stamp]
- Printer
- Printed in U.S.A.
- Editing
- D. J. Arneson (editor)
Issue Notes
Indicia title is "BRAIN BOY #1330." No code number. On-sale date from 1962 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Brain Boy / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Vic Prezio ? (painting)
- Inks
- Vic Prezio ? (painting)
- Colors
- Vic Prezio ? (painting)
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Brain Boy [Matt Price]
Indexer Notes
Brain Boy has a resemblance to actor Robert Vaughn.
Dictionary of "Psychic Words"
comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Examples of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnotism, and precognition.
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover; black and white. Illustrations with text beneath.
Brain Boy
Brain Boy / comic story / 32 pages
- Script
- Herbert Kastle
- Pencils
- Gil Kane; Al Jaffee (see notes)
- Inks
- Bob Fujitani
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Duffy
- 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
According to information in The Comic Reader # 8, March 1962, Al Jaffee did breakdowns for the last 22 pages. Story continues in Brain Boy #2.
[Hypnotism]
Adventures in the Unknown / comic story / 1 page
- 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.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
Brain Boy -
1.
Dictionary of "Psychic Words"
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2.
Brain Boy
Brain Boy -
3.
[Hypnotism]
Adventures in the Unknown -
4.
Animal Miracles
Adventures in the Unknown
This issue was modified by, among others
- Nick Caputo
- Steve Coates
- Merlin Haas
- Jerry Hillegas (R.I.P.)
- Keith Alan Morgan
- Mike Nielsen
- Tony R. Rose
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