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Captain Future
Cover to Captain Future: Man of Tomorrow Winter 1942 Edition Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 418 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (558 × 800 pixels, file size: 94 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Cover to Captain Future: Man of Tomorrow Winter 1942 edition Copyright 1942 Thrilling Publications This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it...
Editor	Mort Weisinger (1940-1941) Oscar J. Friend (1941-1944)
Categories	Pulp magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
First issue	Winter 1940
Final issue — Number	Spring 1944 17
Company	Thrilling Publications
Country	United States
Language	English

Captain Future was both a science fiction magazine and a fictional character. The character was the creation of science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton. Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about inexpensive fiction magazines. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Thrilling Publications (also known as Beacon Magazines, 1936-37; Better Publications, 1937-43, and Standard Magazines, 1943-55) was a pulp magazine publisher run by Ned Pines that existed since the 1920s. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Oct. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Edmond Hamilton (November 21, 1904 - February 1, 1977) began writing science fiction with the story The Monster God of Mamurth in 1928. ...

The original character was published by Ned Pines' Thrilling/Standard/Better publications company. A different Captain Future was published in Pine's Nedor Comics line. Ned L. Pines (1906-1990) was a New York publisher. ... Thrilling Publications (also known as Beacon Magazines, 1936-37; Better Publications, 1937-43, and Standard Magazines, 1943-55) was a pulp magazine publisher run by Ned Pines that existed since the 1920s. ... Nedor Comics was the comic line of publisher Ned Pines, who also published pulp magazines under a variety of company names (Standard or Better or Thrilling), which are also used for the comics. ...

Published stories

The stories were published in the pulp magazines from 1940 to 1951. The adventures mostly appeared in Captain Future's own magazine but later stories appeared in Startling Stories. They are a good example of the space opera stories of the period. Captain Future is Curtis Newton, a brilliant scientist and adventurer who roams the solar system solving problems, righting wrongs, and vanquishing futuristic supervillains. Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Against the Fall of Night by Arthur C. Clarke in Startling Stories Cover by Earle Bergey Startling Stories was a pulp science fiction magazine which also published a lot of science fantasy. ... Classic pulp space opera cover, with the usual cliché elements. ... Doctor Doom, one of the most archetypal supervillains and his arch-enemies The Fantastic Four (in background). ...

The series contains a number of assumptions about the solar system which are naive by modern standards but which still seemed plausible in the time the stories were written. All of the planets of the solar system, and many of the moons and asteroids, are suitable for life, and most are already occupied by humanoid extraterrestrial races. The initial adventures take place in the planets of the solar system but later stories take the hero to other stars, other dimensions and even the distant past and future. This article is about the Solar System. ... The term humanoid refers to any being whose body structure resembles that of a human. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The stories are exciting and clever but simplistic in style and characterization. In the later stories Hamilton is able to inject some pathos into his characters. This may have been due to the influence of Hamilton's wife, Leigh Brackett. Brackett was also a science fiction writer, and many critics credit her with improving the quality of Hamilton's writing after their marriage. Look up Pathos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Leigh Brackett (December 7, 1915 - March 18, 1978), was a writer of fantasy and science fiction, mystery novels and - best known to the general public - Hollywood screenplays, most notably The Big Sleep (1945), Rio Bravo (1959), The Long Goodbye (1973) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). ...

Anime

In 1978, one year after Hamilton's death, Toei Animation of Japan produced a Captain Future TV anime series of 52 episodes, based on 13 original Hamilton stories. Despite the strong cultural differences and the large gap between a literary work and animation, the series was close to the original in many ways, from the didactic scientific explanations to the emphasis on the usefulness of brains as opposed to brawn. Year 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1978 Gregorian calendar). ... Toei Animation Company, Limited ) (JASDAQ: 4816) is a Japanese animation studio owned by the Toei Company. ... Animé redirects here. ...

The series was translated in several languages and distributed globally. The four episodes comprising the series' second story arc were dubbed into English and released on video by Ziv in the early 1980s. In the late 80s, Harmony Gold dubbed the series' initial four-part story as an edited together TV movie simply entitled Captain Future. Harmony Gold is a television production and distribution company established in 1983. ...

While only eight episodes were dubbed into English, the series met huge success particularly in France, where the title and lead character's name were changed to "Capitaine Flam" (based on Flame), in Italy with the translated title of "Capitan Futuro", in Latin America with the title "Capitán Futuro", and in Germany, where it appeared under its original title. The success in France and Italy was especially due to anthemic theme tunes (in the dubbed language) which became true hits in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the French and Italian charts. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

For the German version, which was cut by about a quarter of the original length - the producers erroneously assumed it to be aimed at younger audiences and thus cut out more violent scenes - a completely new soundtrack was created by German composer Christian Bruhn. To this day, the soundtrack is considered cult and the theme song is still used as background music in many magazines and other shows. A soundtrack CD was released in 1995, and a remix called "The Final" by Phil Fuldner entered the top ten of the German and Swiss single charts in 1998. Also, the German publisher Bastei Verlag released a Captain Future comic series with original adventures, but the artistic rendering was far below the animation series' quality. In film formats, the soundtrack is the physical area of the film which records the synchronized sound. ...

On a more literary plane, in 1996 the Hugo award for best Novella was given to a psychologically and socially complex pastiche of Hamilton's space opera: The Death of Captain Future by Allen Steele. Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... The 2005 Hugo Award with base designed by Deb Kosiba. ... The word pastiche describes a literary or other artistic genre. ... Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. ...

Plot synopsis

The series begins in 1990 when scientist Roger Newton, his wife Elaine, and his brilliant fellow scientist Simon Wright leave planet Earth to do research in an isolated laboratory on the moon. Simon's body is old and diseased and Roger enables him to continue doing research by transplanting his healthy brain into an artificial floating case. Working together, the two scientists manage to create an intelligent robot called Grag, and a synthetic man, or android, with shape-shifting abilities called Otho. Unfortunately, the criminal scientist Victor Kaslan arrives on the moon and murders the Newtons. Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about Earths moon. ... For other uses, see robot (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Android (disambiguation). ...

The deaths of the Newtons leave their son, Curtis, to be raised by the unlikely trio of Otho, Grag, and Simon Wright (often referred to as the Living Brain). Under their tutelage, Curtis grows up to be a brilliant scientist and as strong and fast as any champion athlete. He also grows up with a strong sense of responsibility and hopes to use his scientific skills to help people. In the first adventure, he offers his services to the President of the System. The publicity shy Curtis suggests he work under the alias Captain Future. Simon, Otho and Grag are referred to as the Futuremen in subsequent stories.

Other recurring characters in the series are the old space marshall Ezra Gurney, the beautiful Planet Patrol agent Joan Randal (who provides a love-interest for Curtis) and James Carthew, President of the Solar System whose office is in New York City. Captain Future faces many enemies in his career but his archenemy is Ull Quorn, the so-called Magician of Mars. Quorn is a scientist whose abilities rival those of Captain Future. He is the only recurring villain in the series and appears in four different stories. He is part Martian but his father was the evil Victor Kaslan. The anime series also provided a young boy called Ken Scott. For other uses, see Love (disambiguation). ... This article is about the state. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bad guy redirects here. ... This article is about hypothetical native inhabitants of the planet Mars. ...

Captain Future is clearly inspired by the earlier pulp hero Doc Savage. Like Doc, he is described as a physical and mental marvel. Captain Future's reliance on scientific gadgets is also similar to the Doc Savage stories, as are his adventurous companions. Grag and Otho have a quarrelsome relationship similar to that of the characters Monk and Ham in the Doc Savage stories. Like their counterparts, Grag and Otho each adopt a small pet. The pets are often brought along on adventures and provide some comic relief in the stories. Grag's pet is Eek, a moon-pup which eats metallic ores. Otho's pet is Ook, a shape-shifting meteor mimic. Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s. ... For other uses, see Gadget (disambiguation). ... Comic relief is the inclusion of a humorous character or scene or witty dialogue in an otherwise serious work, often to relieve tension. ...

To some degree, the robots of the Star Wars series can be considered as Grag and Otho's literary descendants, fulfilling much the same role. This article is about the series. ...

Stories

Captain Future Magazine

1. The Space Emperor Edmond Hamilton Wntr/40 [reprinted as Captain Future and the Space Emperor]
2. Calling Captain Future Edmond Hamilton Spng/40
3. Captain Future's Challenge Edmond Hamilton Smmr/40
4. The Triumph of Captain Future Edmond Hamilton Fall/40 [reprinted as Galaxy Mission]
5. The Seven Space Stones Edmond Hamilton Wntr/41 [reprinted as Captain Future and the Seven Space Stones]
6. Star Trail to Glory Edmond Hamilton Spng/41
7. The Magician of Mars Edmond Hamilton Smmr/41
8. The Lost World of Time Edmond Hamilton Fall/41
9. Quest Beyond the Stars Edmond Hamilton Wntr/42
10. Outlaws of the Moon Edmond Hamilton Sprn/42
11. The Comet Kings Edmond Hamilton Smmr/42
12. Planets in Peril Edmond Hamilton Fall/42
13. The Face of the Deep Edmond Hamilton Wntr/43
14. Worlds to Come Joseph Samachson Spng/43
15. Star of Dread Edmond Hamilton Smmr/43
16. Magic Moon Edmond Hamilton Wntr/44
17. Days of Creation Joseph Samachson Spng/44 [reprinted as Tenth Planet]

Startling Stories Dr. Joseph Samachson (1906–1980) was a scientist and author born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA and son of David and Anna Samachson. ... Dr. Joseph Samachson (1906–1980) was a scientist and author born in Trenton, New Jersey, USA and son of David and Anna Samachson. ...

1. Red Sun of Danger Edmond Hamilton Spng/45 [reprinted as Danger Planet]
2. Outlaw World Edmond Hamilton Wntr/46
3. The Solar Invasion Manly Wade Wellman Fall/46
4. The Return of Captain Future Edmond Hamilton 01/01/50
5. Children of the Sun Edmond Hamilton 05/01/50
6. The Harpers of Titan Edmond Hamilton 09/01/50
7. Pardon My Iron Nerves Edmond Hamilton 11/01/50
8. Moon of the Unforgotten Edmond Hamilton 01/01/51
9. Earthmen No More Edmond Hamilton 03/01/51
10. Birthplace of Creation Edmond Hamilton 05/01/51

Notes: Numbers #14-18 were credited to house name "Brett Sterling"; Numbers 21-27 were short novels. Several issues were reprinted in paperback in the 60s, as noted above. Manly Wade Wellman (May 21, 1903 - April 5, 1986) was an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. ...

External links

• Edmond Hamilton on Captain Future
• Robert Weinberg's Captain Future page
• The Pulp Heroes: Captain Future
• Galactic Central Magazine Datafile for Captain Future