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THE PULPS
CAPTAIN FUTURE
Captain Future is both a science fiction magazine and a fictional character.
Although sometimes mistakenly attributed to science fiction writer Edmond Hamilton, who indeed authored most of Captain Future stories, the character was created by Better Publications editor Mort Weisinger during the 1939 World Science Fiction Convention.[1]
The original character was published by Ned Pines' Thrilling/Standard/Better publications company. A different Captain Future was published in Pine's Nedor Comics line.
The stories were published in the pulp magazines from 1940 to 1951. The adventures mostly appeared in Captain Future's own magazine but later stories appeared in Startling Stories. Captain Future is Curtis Newton, a brilliant scientist and adventurer who roams the solar system solving problems, righting wrongs, and vanquishing futuristic supervillains.
The series contains a number of assumptions about the solar system which are naive by modern standards but which still seemed plausible in the time the stories were written. All of the planets of the solar system, and many of the moons and asteroids, are suitable for life, and most are already occupied by humanoid extraterrestrial races. The initial adventures take place in the planets of the solar system but later stories take the hero to other stars, other dimensions and even the distant past and future.
In the later stories Hamilton is able to inject some pathos into his characters. This may have been due to the influence of Hamilton's wife, Leigh Brackett.[citation needed] Brackett was also a science fiction writer, and many critics[who?] credit her with improving the quality of Hamilton's writing after their marriage.[citation needed]
MORE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Future
ISSUE 1 ISSUE 2 ISSUE 3
Edmond Hamilton took Weisinger's so-so idea about "Mr. Future" and turned the concept into "Captain Future." Captain Future, Curt Newton, was a typical super-science pulp hero, with a trio of unusual companions: Grag, a seven foot tall robot; Otho, a green-skinned android; and Simon Wright, a human brain living in a box. Together, these heroes were known as the "Futuremen," and had adventures throughout our solar system, and several times, outside the solar system.
MORE: http://www.robertweinberg.net/captainfuture.htm
Captain Future: Future guy, captain of the future, future captaincy-type guy. You get the idea. A man born "centuries before his time," he was one of those typical super scientist heroes of the pulp era who could whip up a hyperspace drive from scratch out of baling wire and old stereo speakers, yet in every other situation had the IQ of a used bus ticket.
Given the fact that he was raised on a secret base on the Moon by a robot, an android, and a brain in a box, one suspects that he might have had some social problems as well.
MORE: http://davidszondy.com/future/man/captain_future.htm
FEATURING A CAPTAIN FUTURE ADVENTURE
The success of STAR WARS brought many a
long-dormant SF franchise out of retirement; even in far away Japan the hunger
for space-spanning astro-heroes was acute. If you're going to do STAR WARS, why
not bypass Lucas entirely and go right to the source - the pulps?
And so in 1978 Toei Animation Company would give us an anime version of the
classic 40s pulp hero CAPTAIN
FUTURE . A mysterious hero of the spaceways, Captain Future pilots the
mighty spaceship Comet, and, aided by his weird and powerful Futuremen, is
pledged to protect Earth and our entire solar system from anything - man, beast,
alien, or sentient 4th-dimensional being from beyond time -who threatens peace!
As a science-fictional amalgam of Doc Savage and The Shadow, Captain Future had
17 issues of his own pulp magazine in the 1940s, as well as appearances in other
pulps in the early 50s. Created by SF giant Edmond
"Starwolf" Hamilton, CAPTAIN FUTURE wouldn't win any literary
awards or dazzle impressionable minds with extraordinary prognostications of
future trends. What Hamilton's stories did do, however, was entertain. Zippy,
two fisted space opera for those who like their heroes with jaws of granite and
their villians sneering and malevolent, CAPTAIN FUTURE is unpretentious fun even
sixty years later.
MORE: http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html
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MORE: http://www.coog.com/Mogozuzu/sci-fi-2.htm
‘Pandorum’ Director To Helm ‘Captain Future’
There's more than one comic-book captain making headlines these days. 'Captain Future' closes in on production with 'Pandorum' director Christian Alvart at the helm.
There is one consistent problem with Hollywood these days – besides the onslaught of remakes – and it is the lack of adult-oriented fantasy sagas. There is hope for the genre with Captain Future. The film now has a director in Christian Alvart, who helmed last fall’s sci-fi/horror/thriller Pandorum.
MORE: http://screenrant.com/captain-future-movie-director-mikee-49187/
I'm not sure how many people actually saw Pandorum
last year, the sci-fi horror starring Dennis Quaid and Ben 
Alvart confirmed this news with Quiet Earth and explained that he wants it to be a "big fun space opera for the whole family." Apparently he was a "huge Captain Future fan growing up" in Germany and sounds pretty excited about bringing this to the big screen. He hopes to "recreate that same sense of excitement that I had discovering space through the Captain's eyes. There are many smart and adult ideas in the franchise for grown-ups to enjoy, but this will definitely be something they can take their kids to as well." So it's not as dark and horrific as Pandorum, but what will it be like? Alvart drops a sci-fi name that gets me hooked.
MORE: http://www.firstshowing.net/2010/03/18/pandorums-christian-alvart-doing-more-sci-fi-captain-future/
THE OTHER CAPTAIN FUTURE
Captain Future is a fictional superhero character (not to be confused with the pulp magazine character of the same name) who first appeared in Startling Comics #1 (June, 1940) from Nedor Comics.
Captain Future appeared in issues 1 through 40 of Startling Comics, and issues 1-3, 5, and 22 (June, 1947) of America's Best Comics; after that, the character fell into the public domain.
In 2003 he appeared in AC Comics' Sentinels of America #1, along with Black Terror, Miss Masque, Fighting Yank, and The Scarab. In 2004 he appeared in Terra Obscura, Volume Two.
In 2008, Captain Future appeared in flashbacks in Dynamite Entertainment's miniseries Project Superpowers; in the one-shot Project Superpowers: Chapter Two Prelude, it was stated that he would appear in future issues in this line.
Nedor Comics
In 1940, scientist Andrew Bryant discovered that bathing himself in a combination of gamma and infrared rays would grant him superpowers; he then used these powers to fight crime, with the help of his detective girlfriend Grace Adams of the Agatha Detective Agency. While "powered up" Bryant is super-strong, can fly, and can hurl bolts of energy from his hands. Strong blows to the head, however, can render him unconscious, and he must frequently use his radiation machine to recharge his powers.
[edit] Project Superpowers
At some point after World War II, Captain Future was trapped in the mystical Urn of Pandora by the misguided Fighting Yank, along with dozens of other heroes. Decades later, the Urn was broken and the heroes freed.
However, in the second volume of Project Superpowers, it is revealed that Captain Future was actually the Greek god Zeus all along.
MORE: http://nedor-a-day.blogspot.com/2009/08/captain-future-power-of-extron.html
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Custom Captain Future in 1:6
Captain Future was one of the more memorable weekday afternoon / after school cartoons of my youth, even more so than Gatchaman or Battleship Yamato. I remember being thoroughly fascinated with the ensemble of characters (I like ensembles, like A-Team etc LOL), and of coz the sci-fi element that brought me into a world beyond my reality (and still do).
MORE: http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2009/02/captain-future-16.html
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