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Issue Details

Issue #1330
Published April-June 1962
Cover Price 0.15 USD
Pages 36
Editing Don Arneson
Notes Indicia title is "BRAIN BOY #1330". No code number. Brain Boy looks like Robert Vaughn

Cover Details

Characters Brain Boy
Genre superhero
Pencils Vic Prezio ? (painting)
Inks ? (painting)
Colors ? (painting)
Letters typeset
Notes Indicia title is "BRAIN BOY #1330". No code number. Brain Boy looks like Robert Vaughn

1 page filler Dictionary of "Psychic Words"

Synopsis Examples of ESP, telepathy, clairvoyance, hypnotism, and percognition.
Genre fact
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane
Notes inside front cover; black and white. Illustrations with text beneath.

32 page Brain Boy story "Brain Boy"

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.
Genre superhero; spy
Script Herb Castle
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Bob Fujitani
Notes Origin of Matt Price, telepath secret agent; Story continues in Brain Boy #2.

1 page Adventures in the Unknown filler "Hypnotism"

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.
Genre fact
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane
Notes Inside back cover; black and white.

1 page Adventures in the Unknown filler "Animal Miracles"

Synopsis Facts about dolphins and questions about types of animal behavour.
Genre fact
Pencils Gil Kane
Inks Gil Kane
Notes Back cover; color.