The ship was running dark, even its rocket-tubes baffled so that no betraying flare of flame would mark its course as it droned on the long voyage from Saturn toward Earth.In his cubby, the telaudio operator, a dark-haired, clear-eyed, tanned young Earthman, alertly listened at his instruments.“P...
A white and terrible face, he thought. A death’s-head with meteor-gnawed bones and gaping crater-wounds, bleak and cruel and very silent, watching him come and thinking secret boding thoughts about him. A feeling of sickness grew in him.“I am a fool and soon I will probably be a dead fool,” he sa...
| Captain Future #21 January 1950Meet the Futuremen! In this department, which is a regular feature of CAPTAIN FUTURE, we acquaint you further with the companions of CAPTAIN FUTURE whom you have met in our complete book-length novels. Here you are told the off-the-record stories of their lives an...
Follow the Futuremen as the greatest feud of all time catapults them into the fifth dimension. Chapter 1: Prison Moon AS THE tiny, star-like disk of the Sun sank behind the bleak rock plain, a whistle shrilled harshly through the chill dusk.“Attention!” barked a tall Saturnian guard.The hundreds...
| Captain Future #23 September 1950Meet the Futuremen! In this department, which is a regular feature of CAPTAIN FUTURE, we acquaint you further with the companions of CAPTAIN FUTURE whom you have met in our complete book-length novels. Here you are told the off-the-record stories of their lives ...
He stared fixedly at the ground ahead, noting every rock, guiding the jeep carefully across shallow gullies, driving as though there were nothing in the universe but the mechanical act. He envied the jeep its ability to chug unemotionally over the end of the world. It struck him as so amusing tha...
| Captain Future #26 March 1951Meet the Futuremen! In this department, which is a regular feature of CAPTAIN FUTURE, we acquaint you further with the companions of CAPTAIN FUTURE whom you have met in our complete book-length novels. Here you are told the off-the-record stories of their lives and ...
“The lost secret of Thuro Thuun — the mystery of ages — and part of the key is right here in my hand!” gasped the young archeologist.The jewel seemed like an icy, menacing eye peering up at him. Its facets, unworn even by incalculable ages, reflected the white glow of the uranite bulbs in the cei...
It had a worn battered look, its plates roughened by strange radiation, dented by tiny meteors, tarnished by alien atmospheres.It had been far, this ship. In its time it had voyaged to the farthest shores of infinity, carrying its little crew of four on an odyssey unmatched in human annals. It ha...
disgustedly exclaimed Norton, the young second mate. “I wish I’d got a berth on a passenger liner. They don’t spend weeks crawling along between planets.”Brower, the veteran first mate, smiled tolerantly at the impatient young officer.“You’ll get used to it,” he predicted. “Me, I kind of like it....
Follow Captain Future as the greatest enigma of all time transports him into the forgotten ages. Chapter 1: Mystery Asteroid THE asteroid swung dark and lonely on its predestined path through space, a tiny world of brooding mystery and silence. It was but one of the countless asteroids, meteor s...
I, Grag, am not given to talking about myself. When Curt Newton suggested that I write up this particular adventure for the casebook in which he records our doings I refused at first.I said, “No, Curt, I’d rather not. You know I’m not one to brag about my own exploits.”“I know that,” he said. “Bu...
It was the emblem of the Rocketeer, the highest rating any space pilot could attain. Jan Walker's four young companions — a Martian, a Venusian and two Mercurians — all wore the emblem. They had just passed their final examinations, and they were looking as eagerly as Walker through the windows o...
It had gray metal and double air-lock doors that allowed no outside air to enter. Through the hermetically sealed windows could be seen a dark, vaguely grotesque forest. Across the black, star-studded sky cut the colossal, gleaming scimitar of the great Rings that only one planet possesses.An obs...
Zarro — leader of a legion of peril! Chapter 1: The Menace from Space THE big liner Pallas throbbed through space on its regular run from Venus to Earth. In the brightly lighted saloons of the big shop, throngs of men and women drank, laughed, talked or danced to the haunting music of the native...
It reached the receiver of a small, stream-lined spaceship far out in the interstellar abyss.That ship had for many days been rushing homeward through the vast black emptiness, returning from an epochal journey to the fixed stars. The tall, redheaded young Earthman in its pilot-chair had turned o...
This tiny satellite was a man-made fairyland, created by artificial air and water and gravitation.Balmy night breezes set the tall trees to nodding in the pink planet-glow. Birds called from the shrubs that bordered the streams in the shadowy parks around metal mansions. To Martians, this Garden ...
But that had been years ago. Tonight she lay grim and black in her dock at New York spaceport, somberly waiting to carry damned souls to their place of punishment.Her name was the Vulcan and she was the famous prison-ship of the Planet Patrol. Once a year, she went out through the worlds upon a f...
A creeping menace invades the galaxy in a sweep of interplanetary conquest— and Captain Future meets his most powerful enemy... the Space Emperor! Chapter 1: Doom on Jupiter THE chill, uncanny breath of a dark menace millions of miles away pervaded the spacious, softly-lit office high in the gre...
The huge red orb of the Sun hung perpetually at the horizon, peering like a giant eye at the tragedy that was being enacted in this ancient metropolis of the little planet Mercury. Thin and cold was the air. It was so thin, indeed, that the lungs had to gulp it feverishly to secure enough oxygen ...