Brain Boy #2 - First Appearance of Matt Price, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Brain Boy (Dell, 1962 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: July-September 1962
Key date: July 1962
On-sale date: April 26, 1962
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Matt Price - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Brain Boy - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	-	cover	1	pencils: Vic Prezio; inks: Vic Prezio; colors: Vic Prezio	Brain Boy First, Matt Price First
1	Telephone to 'Nowhere'	comic story	1	pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer
2	Pirates of the Air	comic story	27	script: Herb Kastle; pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer
3	Mental Detectives	text story	1	letters: typeset
4	The Strange Mr. Ozymandias	comic story	4	script: Herb Kastle; pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer
5	The 25 Year Dream	comic story	1	pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer
6	The Dog That 'Smelled' Death	comic story	1	pencils: Frank Springer; inks: Frank Springer

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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