Captain Future, Fall 1940
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Overview:
- Title: Captain Future, Fall 1940
- Author: Mort Weisinger
- Year: 1940
- Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
- Price: $0.15
- Pages: 132
- Binding: pulp
- Type: MAGAZINE
- Title Reference: Black Absolute
- Notes:
- Vol 2, No 1.
- Contents page states "October, 1940, issue."
- Page numbers run 3-130.
- The Editor is not credited.
- Cover art is not credited; the artwork is signed "E. K. Bergey."
- Story art for "The Triumph of Captain Future" is credited to "H. W. Wesso." The artwork on pages 23, 41, and 51 is signed "HWesso"; that on pages 14-15, 17, 19, 25, 33, 37, 47, 49, and 57 shows no signature. There are also several tiny generic drawings at the start or end of chapters.
- Story art for "Uranian Justice" on page 104 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Leo Morey."
- Story art for "Black Absolute" on page 109 is not credited; the artwork shows no signature.
- Story art for "The Human Termites (Part 4 of 4)" on page 111 is not credited; the artwork is signed "Paul." Two small illustrations of characters in the story on pages 112 and 113 are not signed.
- "The Futuremen" is a column giving background on characters in the stories. It is fictional but is written as fact.
- "The Worlds of Tomorrow" gives fictitious information on locations in space, but is written as if factual. A diagram is included.
- "Under Observation" is a letters column.