Okay, as this is a tremendously difficult to track down series, and virtually no information is available on the web beyond issue #3, I've begun to compile what I've learned from your comments in this thread about the other issues in this run. I've also incorporated some information revealed in a conversation between Mr. bailey and I on my facebook page:


The Regular Series:

1-4: already reviewed

Late 1960s (likely somewhere between issues 10 and 20): Frank Robbins/Julie Schwartz era that took BPtG back to his roots as an inanimate rag doll.

Early 1970s: 6-issue arc where the peacemaking spirit of Pow somehow convinced Stan Lee, Jack Kirby & Steve Ditko to lay aside their decades-old grievances for one more go at greatness. And they succeeded in spades.

71: Filler issue. "No Thing for my Thang", Phyllis Diller

Soon after, yet somehow published in 1933: all-too-quickly abandoned Philip K. Dick run. John Severin & Russ Heath drawing alternating panels. Somehow, though, it only came out in 1933, before the advent of comics as we know them & for that matter pretty much before PKD could read, much less write.

83: Beginning of the Steve Gerber/Salman Rushdie run.

1980 or so: Brother Power was reduced to drooling, wetting-himself senility, succumbed to the delusion that he was a has-been old actor & then became president of the U.S. from 11/80-11/88, "governing" under the thumb of a hatchet-faced, harridan wife & her astrologer while in the process somehow becoming a true icon to the fascist Right.

117: Alan Moore's "I'll explain everything away by depicting BP as nothing more than a series of cognizant water molecules" outing. Also featuring The Floronic Man, as well as 24 pages worth of panels of the San Francisco Bay.

Presumably the late 1980s or early 1990s: "Scrap-Heap Heroes: Rags to Riches" storyline/ team-up/ event/ company-wide/crossover/crisis that featured Pow, the Flash villain Rag Doll, The Patchwork Man, the Pied Piper, Ragman, Scrappy Doo, Richie Rich, and Ragland T. Tiger against the Haberdasher of Hate.

Early 1990s: Rob Liefield/Mark Millar run

#0 and #1000: Zero Hour tie-ins

Prior to 2001: publication briefly switches over to Marvel.

2001: Marvel's 'Nuff Said month, where every book they put out was free of captions or dialogue. It was done by the legendary team of Giffen/DeMatteis and Maguire and chronicled Pow's time in the Senate when he had to filibuster but Capital Hill had been transported to the Isle of Silence in Asgard, so he dressed in white face and mimed the filibuster for 20 some odd pages. Brilliant brilliant stuff and Maguire's expressive art of Pow in every panel of the book is just amazing. I long ago lost the issue and can't remember the exact issue number, but man that story will stay with me forever and for me is the highlight of the time Marvel published BPTG. The filibuster was to prevent some military action or other, and Pow was full on in peace lover mode.*

#283.5: Series concludes with the poorly received, "Whatever Happened to the Geek of 1968?" *

* note: There must have been a significant period of hiatus at some point for the book to have only reached this many issues by the early 2000s.



One-shots and limited series:

the 80-page Giant

Gold Key issue of Brother Power the Geek Meets Dean Martin's Golddiggers Featuring Stanley Myron Handleman

Cameo in an issue of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis (which, incidentally, references the Martin issue and refers to Dean as "more of a Geek than you'll ever be").

After the main title's cancellation in the early 2000s(?): One issue by Neil Gaiman, one by Mike Allred and one by J. Michael Straczynski.


Collected editions:

the Tabloid Collector's Edition; the Showcase Presents paperback; the ashcan editions of #'s 3 and 4, the Omnibus editions (three volumes), and The Greatest Brother Power the Geek Stories Ever Told


Multimedia Adaptations:

Phillip K. Dick's groundbreaking TV sitcom, "That Darned Space Ray." Featuring an animated Brother Power as rendered by Frank Robbins (& inked, of course, by Jack Abel)