![]() ![]() His parents teach at Crestwood College, his father a professor, his mother an art instructor. ![]() The focus of the series was young teenagers Barclay “Brains” Benton (“X”) and sidekick James “Jimmy” Carson (“Operative Three”) who live in the fictional town of Crestwood.īrains is your typical, for the time, young electronics genius. Only a couple were reprinted in paperback. All appeared in picture cover format (hardcovers with artwork part of the cover, no dust jackets). He later said he pretty much wrote the whole series. He then turned the series over to another author, and the rest of the series was published under the name of “ George Wyatt.” But apparently things didn’t work out, and Verral soon took back the series. Probably best known to pulp fans as a main writer for the Bill Barnes series, he later got into writing various juvenile books for Golden. The first story was written (and credited) to Charles Spain Verral. ![]() It only lasted six volumes, from 1959-61. ![]() Brains Benton is in many ways the last hurrah for Golden’s juvenile series. In the area of juvenile mystery/adventure series, they tried to compete with Grosset & Dunlop and Simon & Schuster with a few of their own series, including Trixie Belden, Ginny Gordon, the Power Boys, Lassie, and the Brains Benton series. Golden Press, an imprint of Western Publishing, put out a lot of juvenile fiction in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. ![]()
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