Publication: Captain Future, Winter 1940

Publication: Captain Future, Winter 1940Publication Record # 256264 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
Editor: Mort Weisinger
Date: 1940-01-00
Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
Price:
$0.15^?$: US dollar
Pages: 132
Format:
pulp^?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
Type: MAGAZINE
Cover: Captain Future, Winter 1940 by George Rozen
Notes:
- Vol 1, No 1.
- Publication date from Ashley's "The Time Machines."
- Page numbers run 3-130.
- The Editor is not credited.
- Cover art is not credited; the artwork is signed "Rozen."
- Story art for "Captain Future and the Space Emperor" is credited to "H. W. Wesso." The artwork on pages 25 and 35 is signed "HWesso"; that on pages 12-13, 15, 19, 21, 29, and 45 shows no signature.
- Story art for "Invisible" on page 92 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Leo Morey."
- Story art for "The Human Termites (Part 1 of 4)" on page 99 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Paul." Two small illustrations of characters in the story on pages 100 and 101 are not signed.
- Story art for "Around Infinity" on page 118 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Leo Morey."
- "The Futuremen" is described as a column giving background on characters in the stories. It is fictional but is written as fact.
- "The Worlds of Tomorrow" is subtitled "A Department of Astro-Geography." It gives fictitious information on locations in space, but is written as if factual.
- "Under Observation" will be a letters column, although in this first issue it contains only an editorial announcement.

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Editor Title: Captain Future - 1940 • [Captain Future Magazine] • (1940) • edited by Mort Weisinger

Contents (view Concise Listing)

9 • Under Observation (Captain Future, Winter 1940) • [Under Observation] • essay by Mort Weisinger [as by The Editor]
12 • Captain Future and the Space Emperor (Complete Novel) • [Captain Future • 1] • serial by Edmond Hamilton
12 • Captain Future and the Space Emperor (Complete Novel) • interior artwork by H. W. Wesso
92 • Invisible • (1938) • short story by Eric Frank Russell (variant of Shadow-Man)
92 • Invisible • interior artwork by Leo Morey
97 • The Futuremen: No. 1—The Metal Robot • [The Futuremen: Companions of Captain Future • 1] • short fiction by uncredited
99 • The Human Termites (Part 1 of 4) • serial by David H. Keller, M.D. [as by David H. Keller]
99 • The Human Termites (Part 1 of 4) • interior artwork by Frank R. Paul
116 • The Worlds of Tomorrow: Jupiter • [The Worlds of Tomorrow] • short fiction by uncredited
118 • Around Infinity • (1939) • short story by Oliver Saari [as by Oliver E. Saari]
118 • Around Infinity • interior artwork by Leo Morey
120 • The March of Science: Science at the World's Fair • essay by uncredited
127 • The Future of Captain Future (Captain Future, Winter 1940) • essay by Edmond Hamilton

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Publication: Captain Future, Winter 1940

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