Talk:Rick Brant

Since I have the entire series of books and have read them all (excluding the Magic Talisman) I took it upon myself to include some very, very brief plot summaries for each of the respective books. If anyone would care to polish my work then do so but discuss here before altering actual content. HuronKing

Looks good, and thanks! RB was a great series. I expanded this article some time back; now that I reread it, I wonder if I've put in a bit of not-objective-POV just by using a kind of breezy "style" which comes too easy to me, but may not be appropriate to Wiki. What do you and others think? For my part, do Be Bold and improve, and let's see. -Scott Dickerson Doxmyth 16:16, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Brant v. Quest

Doesn't necessarily belong in the article, but I had a minor obsessive attack and came up with this table:

	Rick Brant	Jonny Quest
Series theme	Science-oriented adventure	Science-oriented adventure
Age	Teenager	Preteen
Father	Famous scientist Hartson Brant	Famous scientist Benton Quest
Residence	Spindrift Island off of New Jersey, site of dad's major science lab	Palm Key off of Florida, site of dad's major science lab
Pals	Scotty, an ex-marine, knows judo, who lives with family; recurring character Chahda, an Indian	Hadji, an Indian who lives with family, learned judo from an American marine
Pet	Dismal, a dog	Bandit, a dog
Notable skills	Flies his own plane	?
Women in his life	Mother; sister; proto-girlfriend Jan	Mother dead; no sister or girlfriend
Adult companions	Various Brant Labs scientists (Hobart Zircon and so on); government agent Steve Ames	Bodyguard and ex-government agent Race Bannon, has a judo black belt

--NapoliRoma 00:34, 8 August 2007 (UTC) Updated: SunSw0rd (talk) 18:50, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

External links

There a number of the Rick Brant books at Project Gutenberg now. They appear to be filed under two different authors. It looks like not everything has been tagged as a pseudonym yet.

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a7833 http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/b#a33540

Gweeks (talk) 12:31, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

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Copyright status?

According to a statement on this page about the Rick Brant books, https://tomswiftfanfiction.thehudsons.com/TS-Yahoo/author-TH-RickBrant.html, "about half of these are known to be in the Public Domain." The main article here mentions "the copyrights" were transferred by the publisher to the family in the 1980s. Project Gutenberg has 13 of the titles online as public domain in the U.S., here: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/g#a7833. I don't know how well PG verifies its listings, so I'm not sure how trustworthy it is. I know the books published on/after 1964 have a better chance to be copyrighted due to a change in copyright law. Does anyone have any concrete information on the copyright status of the books? ClassicCF (talk) 20:12, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

Error in character description

Reference: "Chahda, a resourceful youth from India, who learned everything he knows, including how to speak English, from reading the 1950 edition of the World Almanac."

The only specific reference to the 1950 Edition comes at a point in one of the earlier books, when Chada needs to get a message to the Brants sub rosa - he uses a fairly obvious Book Cipher to manage this goal.

He signs his name as "L Chada," which gives them a clue - knowing that the *only* books he has read include several World Almanacs, they debate on which edition he might have used, first thinking that the reference might be to the 1912 edition - which they did NOT have in the library - and then realizing that the 1950 edition would be rather more common - which proved to be the case. DocKrin (talk) 17:06, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

@DocKrin: Agreed. I changed it to "old almanac". Dan Bloch (talk) 01:43, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

I would suggest 'old almanacs,' but I'll hold off on that until I crawl through a couple of the books from Gutenberg and try to find the requisite quotes. DocKrin (talk) 03:28, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

The Caves of Fear (available on Gutenberg) says "the beggar boy who had educated himself with an old copy of The World Almanac." Dan Bloch (talk) 03:49, 29 December 2021 (UTC)