The Mad Scientists' Club
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The Mad Scientists' Club is a series of three books plus a manuscript written by Bertrand R. Brinley (1917-?) and illustrated by Charles Geer. The four books are:
- The Big Kerplop!: The Original Adventure of the Mad Scientists' Club (1974)
- The Mad Scientists' Club (1965) consisting of:
- "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake" (1960), first published in Boys' Life (September 1961)
- "The Big Egg" (1964)
- "The Secret of the Old Cannon" (1963), first published in Boy's Life (1966)
- "The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls" (1962), first published in Boy's Life (November 1962)
- "The Great Gas Bag Race" (1964), first published in Boy's Life (1966)
- "The Voice in the Chimney" (1964)
- "Night Rescue" (1961), first published in Boy's Life (February 1964)
- The New Adventures of the Mad Scientists' Club (1968) consisting of:
- "Big Chief Rainmaker" (1965)
- "The Telltale Transmitter" (1966)
- "The Cool Cavern" (1966)
- "The Flying Sorcerer" (1968)
- "The Great Confrontation" (1968)
- The Big Chunk of Ice (1974, a fourth book is scheduled to be published the first time in 2005)
Living in a small town called "Mammoth Falls," the members of the Mad Scientists' Club are seven propellor head boys:
- Jeff Crocker President
- Henry Mulligan Vice President and Chief of Research
- Dinky Poore
- Freddy Muldoon
- Homer Snodgrass
- Mortimer Dalrymple
- Charlie Finckledinck, the narrator of the stories
The Mad Scientists stories started off a short stories in Boys' Life magazine, later collected in 2 collections. The first novel, The Big Kerplop!, had only a 1000 copies published originally, so it not well known. The son of the author has been reprinting these works recently thru Purple House Press. They will soon be publishing the final work, a previously unpublished second novel.
A 2-part episode in 1971 of the TV series Wonderful World of Disney was loosely based on the "The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake". It was titled "The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove" and starred Burgess Meredith. It would be repeated a few times, but doesn't seem to be available on DVD or Video.
External links
- The Official Website (http://www.madscientistsclub.com/)
- Purple House Press's Mad Scientists Club page (http://www.purplehousepress.com/msc.htm)