Captain Future, Winter 1940

Overview:

  • Title: Captain Future, Winter 1940
  • Author: Mort Weisinger
  • Year: 1940
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price: $0.15
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Around Infinity
  • 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.