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The Flaming Mountain - Rick and Scotty aid the Spindrift Foundation's mission to save an island from an active volcano.

Rick Brant is the central character in a series of 24 adventure and mystery novels by John Blaine, a pseudonym for authors Harold L. Goodwin (all titles) and Peter J. Harkins (co-author of the first three). The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1947 and 1968, with the previously unpublished title, The Magic Talisman printed in 1990 in a limited edition as the concluding #24.[1]

In the series, teenaged Rick Brant and his ex-Marine pal, Don Scott [Scotty] live on Spindrift Island off the coast of New Jersey, where Rick's father, Hartson Brant, heads the Spindrift Foundation, a group of scientists. Rick and Scotty are involved in various adventures at home and abroad. Besides Hartson Brant, the recurring supporting characters in the series include:

• Barbara Brant (Barby), Rick's younger sister
• Chahda, a resourceful youth from India
• Janice Miller (Jan), daughter of Dr. Walter Miller, a Spindrift scientist, and Rick's girlfriend
• Dismal [Diz], the Brant family dog
• Steve Ames, an agent of "JANIG", the fictional Joint Army-Navy Intelligence Group

Various Spindrift scientists also appear several times:

• Physicist Hobart Zircon.
• Mathematician Julius Weiss
• Cyberneticist Parnell Winston
• Archaeologist Tony Briotti
• Rocket designer John Gordon

The Rick Brant series had a scientific tone (being bylined as "Electronic Adventures" or "Science-Adventure Stories" and finally "SCIENCE Adventures"). The science in the stories was realistic science, unlike the fantastic science of Tom Swift, Jr. ---From Wikipedia