presumably a Cessna 180 Skywagon. Main characters Rick Brant, the teenaged hero of the stories, son of Hartson Brant the leader of the Spindrift Foundation Donald "Scotty" Scott, his ex-Marine pal, and his sidekick in most of the events Secondary characters Barbara "Barby" Brant, Rick's younger sister Chahda, a resourceful youth from India, who learned everything he knows, including how to speak English, from reading an old edition of the World Almanac Janice Miller (Jan), daughter of Dr. Walter Miller, a Spindrift scientist; Barbara's friend. Dismal, the Brant family dog Steve Ames, an agent of "JANIG", the fictional Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Group Mrs. Brant, Rick's mother; her given name is never mentioned. Various Spindrift scientists also appear through the series: Hartson Brant, world famous scientist and Rick's father Hobart Zircon, a physicist Julius Weiss, a mathematician Parnell Winston, a cyberneticist Tony Briotti, an archaeologist John Gordon, a rocket designer Publishing status The publishers were averse to any suggestion of the supernatural in the series. An ambiguous end to The Blue Ghost Mystery was dropped, and an entire book (The Magic Talisman) was rejected due to its inclusion of ESP elements. This lost tale was eventually published in an independent edition in 1990. Beginning in the 1980s, Grosset & Dunlap began transferring the copyrights to Hal Goodwin. The rights are now held by the John Blaine/Rick Brant Trust. The Goodwin family has been working to bring the works back in print, starting with the rarer final four books. Rick Brant never graduated to any other medium of entertainment, although there are notable similarities to be found in the Jonny Quest franchise. On November 9, 2010 an e-book, The Rick Brant Science-Adventure Series, was released on Amazon for the Kindle eReader containing eleven of the original novels. List of titles The Rocket's Shadow (1947) Rick meets Scotty and investigates sabotage of Spindrift's experimental rocket. The Lost City (1947) Rick and Scotty journey to the Himalayas to set up a relay station to bounce a radar signal off the moon. (Chahda character introduced.) Sea Gold (1947) Rick and Scotty get jobs at a new plant to extract minerals from sea water, and investigate possible sabotage. 100 Fathoms Under (1947) Rick and Scotty travel to the South Pacific in search of an ancient archaeological artifact. The Whispering Box Mystery (1948) Rick and Scotty race against time to stop a ring of spies from using