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„Captain Future“ is a 1939ies pulp magazine series created by Leo Margulies and Mort Weisinger (both editors, "Standard Magazines"), with Edmond Hamilton authoring most of the stories, as well as a Japanese animated TV series (based on Hamilton’s CF novels) created in 1978/1979.

Under the *nom-de-guerre* „Captain Future“, brilliant young scientist Curtis Newton chases interstellar criminals with his three-man crew. In 20 epic adventures, Future and his men (Grag, the robot, Otho, the android, and Prof. Simon Wright, the "living brain") are fighting evil, righting wrongs and serve up justice in the universe. For a synopsis, please see Synopsis.

## History

The main character, „Future“, was invented in 1939, when Margulies wanted to add another series to the already existing magazines „Startling Stories“ and „Thrilling Wonder Stories“. According to the original proposal drafted by him and Weisinger, „Mr. Future“ was planned to be a mutant super scientist, accompanied by a telepathically controlled robot doppelganger (the original concept for Grag), a shape-shifting crystalline Ganymede warrior (the predecessor of Otho) and an old man who had read every book in the entire universe (who later became Prof. Simon Wright, the „brain“). Hamilton – who felt he couldn’t work with this concept – had quite a hard time convincing the editors to let him apply some changes… And while he already was penning down Future’s very first adventure, the editors changed his name to „Captain“ Future.
The new series then was announced on the first World Science Fiction Convention in New York (July 2nd – 4th, 1939), with the first story, „Captain Future and the Space Emperor“, being published in January, 1940.

17 Captain Future novels were published in the "Captain Future" magazine, until it got cancelled by mid of 1944 (due to the war-time paper shortages). 3 more novels then got published in „Startling Stories“, followed by 7 short stories (1950/1951).
Not all stories were written by Edmond Hamilton himself – No. 14 („Worlds to Come) and 17 („Days of creation“) are attributed to Joseph Samachson (as „Brett Sterling“), whereas No. 20 („The Solar Invasion“) was authored by Manly Wade Wellmann.

## Navigation

SynopsisThe Novels and Short StoriesThe Main CharactersThe AniméEpisode Guide
## External Links

The Pulp Net - https://www.thepulp.net

Futuremania - The Captain Future Fan Site - https://www.futuremania.de

Captain Future at the ISFDB - https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?1709

Robert Weinberg's CF page - http://www.robertweinberg.net/captainfuture.htm

CF animé cels at Seb's Cels - http://seb.rubberslug.com/gallery/home.asp

## Misc.

In Europe, „Captain Future“ provided an entry into the worlds of science fiction for many kids and was shown on childrens' TV... The original stories, however, were aimed at teens (kids from 11 - 19). In Japan, the animé was show at prime time in the evening programme.

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