Captain Future 21 - The Return Of Captain Future (January 1950) - Plot & Excerpts
| 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 and anecdotes plucked from their careers. Follow this department closely, for it contains many interesting and fascinating facts to supplement those you read in our featured novels. The Metal RobotFrom the Winter 1940 issue of Captain Future GRAG the robot is the largest and strongest of Captain Future’s three strange comrades. He is probably the strongest being in the whole Solar System.He towers over seven feet in height, a massive, manlike figure of gleaming “inert” metal.This metal, being impervious to most forces and weapons, has protected Grag from destruction many times. Yet old scars show where his body-plates have been broken and rewelded in the past. IMBUED WITH INTELLIGENCEGrag was built in the cavern-laboratory on the moon by Roger Newton, Captain Future’s father, and Simon Wright, the Brain, according to an intricate design.The robot was not designed to be merely an automaton, but to have an intelligence and individuality of his own.His creators endowed him with a brain consisting of metal neurones roughly corresponding to the neuron-pattern of a human brain, though more simple.
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