In the mid 1940s, Hamilton became a writer for DC Comics' Superman title. In 1946, he married fellow science fiction author and screen writerLeigh Brackett. Following their marriage, Hamilton's output diminished, although the quality of his writing improved.
The peak of Hamilton's popularity probably came in the 20's and 30's where he proved as popular with the readers of Weird Tales as such prominent authors as Robert E. Howard and H.P. Lovecraft.
EdmondHamilton was a major contributor to the formative years of science fiction.
Hamilton found the characters unworkable as presented to him by Marguiles, but after several changes, Captain Future was born.
EdmondHamilton began writing science fiction with the story "The Monster God of Mamurth," which appeared in the August 1926 issue of the classic magazine of alternative fiction, Weird Tales.
Hamilton quickly became a central member of the remarkable group of Weird Tales writers assembled by editor Farnsworth Wright, that included H. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.
In the 1940s, Hamilton was the primary force behind the Captain Future franchise, an SF pulp designed for juvenile readers that won him many fans, but diminished his reputation in later years when science fiction moved away from its space-opera roots.
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