[Rachel Thorn]

There's no Comics Code Authority seal on the cover, and the content clearly violates the code (Brain Boy forcing a would-be assassin to blow his own brains out!). I had no idea Dell published non-Code comics! Was this in a larger "magazine" format? Why did this get distributed while no distributor would touch Kane's "His Name Is...Savage!" Was it a matter of degree? (Admittedly, Savage was a lot more, well, *savage*.) Now I'm interested in what other non-code comics Dell may have put out at this time.

Link to the book: 1330 - Brain Boy 1

[The Australian Panther]

Rachel,

  Wholesalers, however, only handled code-approved comics (with the exception of Dell Comics and Classics Illustrated)

http://cbldf.org/comics-code-history-the-seal-of-approval/
Dell was apparently considered so 'kid friendly' that they weren't asked to submit books to the Code Authority for approval. In this case maybe they should have been.
Well-spotted tho. 

[paw broon]

For a few years Dell had the Pledge to Parents block in all their comics:-

It disappeared in the '60's but I'm not sure when.

[SuperScrounge]

Dell was the number one comic publisher at the time of the code and they were very family friendly, so they saw no reason to join a code created by lesser competitors. Also retailers had no problem ordering Dells regardless of whether they had a code or not, the books would sell.

Up until mid-1962 Dell had Western Publishing put together their comics, then the two companies had a falling out & Western created Gold Key, while Dell pretty much had to create a new comic book company, but using the same name. Neither Dell or Gold Key were subject to the Comics Code.