Dickie Dean

Richard "Dickie" Dean was an American boy inventor character who lived in a small town near Philadelphia. He was assisted by his best friend "Zip" Todd, who was less brilliant but no less brave. Dickie's first adventure found him inventing a device that could capture sounds from weeks in the past - an invention that he promptly offered to the FBI. Since then, he occasionally passed on some of his inventions to the federal government. The sheer number of inventions he came up with is too many to list. Some of his recurring inventions include the Sky Bug - a vehicle that could fly at high speed and hover at any height, and some variation of an electric gun.

Dickie Dean teamed up with Daredevil when the Nazis tried to steal a decoding device he invented to help the war effort. He also knew Swoop Smith, a fellow boy inventor. While the two never actually appeared in the same story, one of Dickie Dean's inventions figured prominently in a Swoop Smith story.

Golden Age Appearances

 * Boy Comics #7
 * Crime Does Not Pay #22
 * Daredevil Comics #1, 12-41
 * Silver Streak Comics #3-10, 12-21