Matt Price, aka Brain Boy, is an agent of American Intelligence.
To be specific, he answers to Chris Ambers, director of - get reach for it - the Society of Active Anthropologists. The Society is a cover for one of the most secret branch of the U.S. Intelligence Community, known to just a handful of people although Ambers is connected enough to be able to reach out to the U.S. President or any Cabinet minister or the military.
Price has a gift - though he does at time not think of it quite so fondly - in that he has extraordinary mental abilities. Telepathy comes naturally to him, as does the ability to block his mind from other mind readers. Telekinesis is also a skill for which he has amazingly strong powers, including moving his own body up stairs by floating. Other abilities will be made known as his adventures are told.
The scenario presented to us in the first recorded adventure shows a car carrying Mary Price and her husband, Matt, experiencing a tire blowout throwing the careening vehicle into a high voltage power tower bringing it to the ground causing wires to fall "spreading deadly electricity". The husband dies instantly but "miraculously his pregnant wife escapes". Two months later her son, also named Matt, is born and raised as an only child by his mother.
Over the next few years as he grew, Matt Price came to realize that "his brain was far more powerful than others ... that it could do things other brains could not". He also learned tat being different meant trouble so he learned to keep his talents to himself. "And so Matt Price grew toward young manhood, hiding the power that was in him - the brain power that he alone possessed". It was at his senior high school prom that Price was approached by Chris Ambers entered his life and, after forcing Price to reveal his amazing powers, told him of his bureau and the need he had for someone of Price's abilities.
Price is a fairly tall, thin young man, 18 years of age and quite handsome with wavy blond hair brushed back.
RETCON! When the adventures of Matt Price were revised a half century later, a bit of his history was given a "retroactive continuity".
"Matt Price is the world's most powerful telepath. Raised by his parents' employer after their deaths, Matt studied and honed his incredible psychic abilities under the tutelage of Albright Industries. He is a powerful asset when it comes to national security and Albright Industries now loans the young man out to the US Secret Service to safeguard important political figures by mentally sweeping area for danger. Just don't call him 'Brain Boy'. He hates that."