The Haunted Stars
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1960.1. –
192 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 59-15721
Note: Price $2.95 appiears in the upper right corner of front dust jacket flap. – Currey’s Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors: a Bibliography of First Printings of Their Fiction and Selected Nonfiction
Note: Gutter code B3 indicates a January 1960 printing. This first printing was from the same press run as the trade edition which has the same code. — Cuurey’s ???
Note: A second printing in April 1960 has a gutter code of “B18″ — Currey’s ???
Note: First edition, first printing with the code “B3” in the gutter margins of the last page of text, trade issue, 1960. The original price of $2.95 at the top right corner of the front flap of the original, first printing dust jacket is unclipped. — Currey’s ???
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Galaxy Mission (Popular Library) CF#4
Galaxy Mission (The Triumph of Captain Future) (CF#4)
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2437) pbk
ELIXIR OF EVIL
They Called him the Life-Lord and the deadly milk-white elixir that his syndicate pushed was called Lifewater.
As promised, Lifewater brought youth to the old. Women who were losing their once cherished beauty, en who were losing their strength gave their life’s savings for a vial of the magic substance. What they did not know was that the powerful brew could cause sudden and violent death.
As the fatal youth epidemic spreads throughout the Solar System, Captain Future battles with time and danger to save his fellow beings from doom – only to find himself trapped in a master fiend’s plot to conquer the solar system.
Fugitive of the Stars (Ace Double)
Fugitive of the Stars
New York : Ace Books, 1965
116, 136 p. ; 17 cm. – (Ace Double (Enlarged) ; M-111) pbk. $0.45
Cover: Gaughan NUC: 74-168022
Note: Bound with: Land Beyond the Map (136 p.) / by Kenneth Bulmer
“Doom cruise of the starship Vega Queen” — Cover
Wanted: One outlawed space pilot!
Horne, the spaceship’s pilot , had been warned.”Don’t forget the meteor swarm.” And Horne’s directional calculations for the Vega Queen’s course took that advice into account; the spaceship would go fifteen thousand miles out of its way to avoid those deadly celestial rocks.
But when Horne went off duty, he felt himself numbed by a curious druglike leadenness. And the next thing he knew, he was in a lifeboat, speeding away from the floating wreckage of the Vega Queen.
Eighteen survivors out of one hundred and fifty-three passengers. And each one in the tiny space shell believed Horne responsible … deliberate negligence, calculated destruction …
Someone had drugged Horne, he knew; someone had tampered with the ship to alter its course. But who? And for what cosmic purpose?
Doomstar (Belmont 1966)
Doomstar
New York : Belmont Books, 1966.1. –
158 p. ; 18 cm. – (Belmont Science Fiction ; B50-657)
“One man against the universe – One man with a device that could change a sun from a life source to the ultimate death-dealing weapon” — Cover
The sun shone brightly on this fateful morning, bringing to its planets warmth and life-giving rays. The brightness increased sharply as the morning grew older. The glare was blinding; the radiation not life-giving, but deadly. By mid-afternoon the brilliant, intense sun shone on barren space. It had blasted each of its four planets out of existence.
Someone had found a way to poison a star.
And someone had to be found who could prevent the takeover – or destruction – of the entire universe. Who? Johnny Kettrick, as improbable a hero there never was. Johnny Kettrick who was banned from the Cluster World for his not-too-honest dealings was sent back there with his three equally unholy partners to search out the Doomstar…to find the Doomstar before it burned out another world.
The Tenth Planet (Popular Library) CF#17
The Tenth Planet
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2445)
NOTE: not Hamilton (by Joseph Samachson)
“When Captain Future disappears, and an impostor takes over, the Solar System faces final doom …” — Cover
Captain Future meets Captain Future…
The two men stood facing each other.
One man was tall and impressive. His red hair, his self-assured manner, the global ring he wore on his finger, left no question in the minds of viewers that he was the man he said he was – the man known the Solar System over as Captain Future.
The other man was tall too, but fierce looking, with a wild black beard and a scarred face. They called him Blackbeard and believed he was a space pirate, although the main claimed he didn’t remember who he was. Not even he suspected that he might be the real Captain Future…
Danger Planet (Popular Library) CF#18
Danger Planet
Author: Brett Sterling (Edmond Hamilton)
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2335)
Cover: Frazetta
“One strong man battling the galaxies of evil”-On cover
One million years back in the swirling, shrouded past, evil ultra-beings ruled the Planet Roo. Suddenly, unbelievably, they are alive again, threatening the universe with total destruction.
Only one man dares challenge the Evil Ones. He is Captain Future, inter-galactic agent of justice, whose identity is top secret, whose strength is ultimate. He sets out alone to stop the deathless menace creeping ever close…
Outside the Universe (IP#4)
Outside the Universe
New York : Ace Books, 1964. –
173 p. ; 17 cm. – (Ace Science Fiction Classic ; F-271) pbk.
Cover: Valigursky NUC: 70-87584
“Space war on an intergalactic scale” — Cover
‘Spaceships in their thousands, and they’re attacking us! They’ve come from somewhere toward our galaxy – have come out of intergalactic space itself to attack our universe!’
The Interstellar Patrol, that fabulous fleet manned by all the assorted races of our galaxy, faced its greatest struggle when that alarm came through. For this was an attack from OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSE, a vast migration from another galaxy, and it had to be stopped if a thousand worlds were to survive!
This terrific classic space novel on the grandest scale involves three giant galaxies in an all-out conflict.
Book Reviews:
- Analog. 76(1):150-151. September 1965. (P. Miller)
The Comet Kings (Popula Library) CF#11
The Comet Kings
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
127 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2407)
“Trapped in the blazing depths of Halley’s comet, the futuremen battle four-dimensional monsters” — Cover
What was the cosmic terror that swallowed spaceships whole?
One by one the Solar System’s ships were disappearing in mid-space – as if a mighty colossus had grabbed them up and swallowed them whole.
Top agents Joan Randall and Ezra Gurney were sent to investigate. Like the others, somewhere beyond Jupiter, they disappeared.
Captain Future heard the news with shocked horror. Whatever the danger, he had to stop this menacing evil force. Whatever the risk, he had to find lovely Joan Randall – the woman he love …
Book Review
- Lovisi, Gary, “Comet Kings: From Pulps to Paperbacks,” in: Paperback Parade No. 1:16-18. October 1986.
The Closed Worlds (SW#2)
The Closed Worlds
New York : Ace Books, 1968
p. ; cm. – (Ace Books ; 78490) pbk. $0.50
Note: Edmund Hamilton on Cover?
The Closed Worlds (SW#2)
The Closed Worlds
New York : Ace Books, 1968
157 p. ; 18 cm. – (Ace Books ; G-701) pbk. $0.50
Cover: Jack Gaughan
“On the forbidden planets of Allubane, Morgan Chane found an ancient science-secret that spelled doom for mankind” — Cover
THESE WORLDS ARE FORBIDDEN!
When Morgan Chane and his comrades of John Dilullo’s interstellar mercenaries invaded the Closed World of Arkuu in search of a lost Terran expedition, they found a planet of strange menace.
Incredibly powerful monsters prowled through Arkuu’s dense jungles, and the ghosts of the planet’s past haunted its ancient deserted cities. The Arkuuns themselves fought grimly to drive the Terrans away.
But at last chance discovered the Free-faring, the terrible alien secret of Arkuu … and suddenly he knew why no Terran had ever left the Closed Worlds alive.
