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Publication: Captain Future, Spring 1940

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  • Publication: Captain Future, Spring 1940Publication Record # 256265 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
  • Editor: Mort Weisinger
  • Date: 1940-04-00
  • Publisher: Better Publications, Inc.
  • Price:
    $0.15?$: US dollar
  • Pages: 132
  • Format:
    pulp?Magazine using the common pulp size: 6.5" by 9.5". For ISFDB purposes this may also be used as a designation for the quality of the paper. There are some untrimmed pulps that are as large as 8" by 11.75
  • Type: MAGAZINE
  • Cover: Captain Future, Spring 1940 by Earle Bergey
  • Webpages: archive.org
  • Notes:
    • Vol 1, No 2.
    • 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 shows no signature. Cover artist credit from The Collected Captain Future: Wizard of Science, Volume One.
    • Interior art is not credited.
    • Story art for "Calling Captain Future" on pages 12-13, 19, and 45 is signed "HWesso"; that on pages 15, 17, 21, 33, 37, and 41 shows no signature.
    • Story art for "Jewel of Mars" on page 100 is signed "Paul."
    • Story art for "The Human Termites (Part 2 of 4)" on page 103 is signed "Paul." Two small illustrations of characters in the story on pages 104 and 105 are not signed.
    • Story art for "Men of Honor" on page 115 is not signed.
    • "The Worlds of Tomorrow" gives fictitious information on locations in space, but is written as if factual. This month's entry describes Pluto. Several diagrams are included.
    • "Under Observation" is a letters column.
Cover art supplied by Galactic Central
Editor Title: Captain Future - 1940 • [Captain Future Magazine] • (1940) • edited by Mort Weisinger

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