Created and written by legendary sci-fi writer Edmond Hamilton,
Captain Future I was a futuristic
Doc Savage-type pulp hero with an entourage of aides including robot
Grag, shape-changing android
Otho, and
Simon Wright the Living Brain.
An "ultimate-human" type hero with Olympic-level physical abiilties and genius-level mind, the Moon-based Cap, aka
Curt Newton, battled evil all over the universe, first in his own title, and later in the sci-fi anthology pulp
Startling Stories.
Strangely, when his publisher put him into comics, Cap was rechristened
"Major Mars", even though he was still Curt Newton, and the other characters remained the same!
That publisher then created an entirely NEW comic book hero and assigned HIM the "
Captain Future" name!
Captain Future II was present-day (1940s) scientist
Andrew Bryant who exposed himself to a combo of gamma and infrared radiation which granted him super-strength, flight, and energy-emitting powers! (instead of frying him like bacon, which is what would happen if it were you or me!)
In a unique twist, if he over-extended his powers, Cap would have to return to his lab and "recharge" himself!
This version is the one revived by Alex Ross in
Project SuperPowers.
Interesting graphic note: in Alex Ross' redesign,
Captain Future II now wears a reversed
Project SuperPowers logo "S" on his chest instead of the original lightning bolt which looks
exactly like the
SHAZAM! Captain Marvel's!
Check
both of them (including Cap I's FIRST pulp and comic appearances, AND Cap II's FIRST appearance) out on shirts, messenger bags, mousepads, mugs & other kool kollectibles by clicking
here!
Coming in August...
The Classic Captain Future 12-Month Calendar for 2010!
Tonite, the unfortunately-cancelled tv series Pushing Daisies is airing it's next-to-last episode "Power & Water".
(I'll use any excuse to run a couple more pix of Gina!)
Created and written by legendary sci-fi writer Edmond Hamilton, Captain Future I was a futuristic Doc Savage-type pulp hero with an entourage of aides including robot Grag, shape-changing android Otho, and Simon Wright the Living Brain.
Strangely, when his publisher put him into comics, Cap was rechristened "Major Mars", even though he was still Curt Newton, and the other characters remained the same!
That publisher then created an entirely NEW comic book hero and assigned HIM the "Captain Future" name!
Born Karen Joy Morris (sister of writer / producer Trevor Morris) the award-winning actress / singer / songwriter is better known as Karen Mok in English-speaking countries, and Mok Man-Wai in the rest of Asia (except Hong Kong).
