Captain Future, Winter 1940

Overview:

• Title: Captain Future, Winter 1940
• Author: Mort Weisinger
• Year: Unknown
• Publisher: Pulp Tales Press
• Price: $19.95
• Pages: 130
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: Around Infinity
• Notes:
  • Print-on-demand facsimile of the volume 1—No. 1 issue of this pulp magazine.
  • Page numbers run 3-130.
  • The Editor is not credited.
  • 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 "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.
  • "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.