Captain Future, Winter 1943

Overview:

  • Title: Captain Future, Winter 1943
  • Author: Oscar J. Friend
  • Year: 1942
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price: $0.15
  • Pages: 132
  • Binding: pulp
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Title Reference: Captain Future - 1943
  • Notes:
    • Vol 5, No 1.
    • Contents page states "December, 1942, issue."
    • Page numbers run 3-130.
    • The Editor is not credited.
    • Cover art is not credited; the artwork shows no signature.
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • Story art for "The Face of the Deep" on pages 15, 17, 19, 23, 31, 35, 45 shows no signature. There are also several tiny generic drawings at the start or end of chapters.
    • Story art for "Ali Baba, Junior" on page 103 is signed "HWesso."
    • Story art for "The Treasure" on page 108 is signed "Marchioni."
    • "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.
    • Hamilton's letter might be considered shortfiction (it is entered thus): he writes from the perspective of having spoken with Captain Future via an "achronic psycho-beam" about events in the future.