captain future magazine captain future science fiction pulp magazine launched edited initially featured adventures super scientist real issue novels magazine written magazine published stories title character including science fiction sale end captain future published space opera words science fiction historian juvenile science fiction appear early years world war wartime paper shortages eventually led magazine cancellation issue dated spring publication history contents science fiction published 1920s begin separately marketed genre appearance pulp magazine published end 1930s field pulp magazine publisher acquired thrilling wonder stories launched new magazines boom startling stories appeared january began following month edited editor established science fiction writer met editorial director early subsequently planned launch new magazine lead character super scientist lived moon went captain future announced new magazine world science fiction convention held new_york july issue edited appeared january following year captain future companions series included enormously strong robot named android named brain newton mentor newton girlfriend regular character followed magazine launch companion comic startling comics appeared captain future protagonist lead story left edit comics following adventures superman replaced captain future hero pulp built central character issue containing lead story featuring character issue contained novel hamilton willing write lead novel issue concerned drafted arrangements writers contribute lead stories hamilton escaped draft arrangements writers work series seventeen lead novels magazine written instead hamilton house invented conceal identity new writer contributions hamilton hamilton wrote regular features provided background material stories worlds tomorrow provided information planets featured stories covered newton companions addition novels captain future published new reprinted science fiction stories unconnected lead character sale end appeared winter issue reprinted man issues magazine originally appeared respectively issues acquired rights magazine focused straightforward space opera typical plot saw captain future friends save solar system entire universe villain historian describes magazine juvenile world war crop science fiction wartime paper shortages killed magazine novels saw print startling stories years following details captain future pulp format pages priced cents seven issues edited remaining issues volume schedule quarterly omission fall issue publisher offices chicago new_york issues magazine subtitled wizard science issues subtitle man tomorrow superman franchise hero thirteen captain future novels reprinted end 1960s printed originally printed follows
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