Doomstar (Belmont 1969)

Doomstar
New Yokr : Belmont Books, 1969. –
158 p. ; 18 cm. – (Belmont Science Fiction ; B50-857) ISBN: 0-505-51336-6
LCCN: 71-86430
“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.
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The Harpers of Titan (Popular Library)

The Harpers of Titan
in: Dr. Cyclops, New York : Popular Library, 1967, 127 p., 18 cm. –
(Popular Library Edition) NUC: 77-3944
Bound with: Dr. Cyclops (Henry Kuttner); Too Late for Eternity (Bruce Walton)
Three darling journeys into the future of man and the universe.
Captain Future and his Futuremen face a hideous peril as Simon Wright, the living Brain, is implanted in a human body
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Crashing Suns (Collection)

Crashing Suns
New York : Ace Books, 1965. –
192 p. ; 17 cm. – (Ace F-319) pbk
Cover: Valigursky NUC: 70-71186
Contents:
Crashing Suns (IP#1)
The Star Stealers (IP#2)
Within the Nebular (IP#3)
The Comet-Drivers (IP#5)
The Cosmic Cloud (IP#7)
“Red alert for the Interstellar Patrol” — Cover
From mighty Canopus, capital of the Federated Stars, to the outer fringes of our great galaxy, the Interstellar Patrol was on the watch. Rogue suns, marauding alien intelligences, man-made comets driven by their makers for the conquest of unsuspecting worlds, diabolical conspiracies hatched in the depths of unmapped nebulae – it was the business of the Patrol’s mighty spaceships to guard against such cosmic dangers.
Crashing Suns is the epic account of this future space legion, where volunteers from a thousand worlds man the mighty starcraft of a hundred thousand years to come. It’s interplanetary adventure on the classic scale, by the master hand of Edmond Hamilton.
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Worlds of Starwolves (SW#3)

Worlds of Starwolves
New York : Ace Books, 1968
158 p. ; 18 cm. – (Ace Book ; G-766) pbk
Cover: Jack Gaughan
“Morgan Chane returns to Varna to lead the Starwolves to the galaxy’s greatest loot” — Cover
The Singing Suns
There were forty of them, forty jewels that represented the forty mightiest stars. They had been synthetically created long ago by a master craftsman, and they made natural gems look dull.
The jewels moved in an intricate star-dance, always changing, now one dark red star-jewel passing two golden ones, now an ethereal blue-white gliding above a greenish one. And they sang. From each came its individual note of pure sound, and the pattern changed perpetually, but it was always music. It was like seeing the whole changing, blazing galaxy in miniature, and hearing the music of the spheres.
The Singing Suns were the greatest treasure of mankind … but they were hoarded by cunning, subtle, immensely powerful aliens. Only the feared Starwolves of Varna could dream of stealing them … and that was just what they hoped to do ….
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The Weapon from Beyond (SW#1)

The Weapon from Beyond
New York : Ace Books, 1967
158 p. ; 18 cm. – (Ace Books ; G-369) pbk. $0.50 NUC: 70-71183
Cover: Gaughan
“A great new galactic-adventure series! Morgan Chane, the Starwolf, battles pirates and hostile space-cruisers to find the secret of the dark nebula.” — cover
The stars whispered: die, Starwolf! die!
Morgan Chane was an Earthman by parentage, but he had been born on the pirate-world Varna, whose heavy gravity had developed strength and incredibly quick reflexes in him. When he was old enough, he joined the raider-ships that looted the starworlds, and fought side by side with the dreaded Starwolves of Varna.
But then there was a fight among them. Chane killed their leader, and the other Starwolves turned on him. He barely got away alive – wounded near death, his Starwolf pursuers following him across the galaxy.
And there was nowhere he could seek refuge, for no world would lift a hand to save one of the hated Starwolves.
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The Valley of Creation (Lancer 1967 edition)

The Valley of Creation
New York : Lancer Books, 1967. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Lancer ; 73-577)
Cover: Emsh
“Alien forces struggle to rule a strange, forgotten world …. Great fantasy-adventure in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs” — Cover
Beasts, men … or aliens?
In that hidden valley, land of strangely forbidding beauty, Eric Nelson, soldier of fortune, faced a battle weirder and more savage than any he had ever fought.
He was hired to fight for humanity, against beings that seemed to be both more and less than human.
The weapons of the enemy included centuries-old powers of magic and superstition . . . but Nelson fought grimly, even when his mind was helplessly trapped in the body of a wolf.
Then came the climactic test of his allegiance, the knowledge that more than just humanity was at stake . . . and the final mind-shattering discovery of an alien secret that lay buried in the Cavern of Creation!
Here is a masterpiece of sword-and sorcery that belongs on your shelves next to those of Burroughs, Eddison, and R.E. Howard.
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The Valley of Creation (Lancer)

The Valley of Creation
New York : Lancer Books, 1964. –
159 p. ; 19 cm. – (Lancer Science Fiction Library ; 72-721) NUC: 78-64694
Cover: Emsh
“Alien forces struggle for mastery in a forgotten land where beasts have more-than-human powers” — Cover
Beasts, Men…Or Aliens?
In that hidden valley, land of strangely forbidding beauty, Eric Nelson, soldier of fortune, faced a battle stranger than any he had ever encountered.
He was hired to fight for humanity, against beings that seemed to be both more and
less than human.
The weapons of the enemy seemed to include centuries-old powers hinted at in tales of
magic and superstition, but he fought on … even when helplessly trapped in the body of a savage wolf.
Then came the climactic test of his allegiance, the knowledge that more than just
humanity was at stake … and the final mind-shattering discovery of the alien secret that lay buried in the Cavern of Creation!
Book Reviews:

  • Analog. 74(6):90. Februry 1965. (P. Miller)

 
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The Star Kings (Paperback Library) SK#1

The Star Kings
New York : Paperback Library, 1967.8. –
190 p. ; 18 cm. – (A Paperback Library Science Fiction Novel ; 53-538)
Cover: Gaughan
“A 20th century man battles in a cosmic war 200,000 years from now! “Fantasy addicts won’t regret the price of admission.” — The New York Times — Cover
“A STIRRING NOVEL OF THE FUTURE.” — Western Morning News
Flung across space and time by the sorcery of super-science, John Gordon exchanges bodies with Zarth Arn, Prince of the Mid-Galactic Empire 2000 centuries in the future!
Suddenly John is thrust into a last-ditch battle between the democratic Empire World and the tyranny of the Black Cloud regime. Only one weapon—the terrifying Disruptor— can win the struggle for the Empire Forces. But it is so powerful that unless John uses it correctly it could destroy not only the enemy but the cosmos.
Could his 20th Century mind cope with the technology of 200,000 years from now?
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The Solar Invasion (Popular Library)

The Solar Invasion (CF#20) by Manley Wade Wellman
New York : Popular Library 1968. –
126 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2346)
Cover: Frazetta
“From beyond the fifth dimension, a master fiend threatens to destroy the universe …… by Manly Wade Wellman” — Cover
The menace from out of time
it comes from beyond the fifth – an alien intelligence both invulnerable and totally evil.
Its aim: bring the universe to its knees. Its primary objective: destroy the Solar System.
As doomsday rushes ever closer, one lone man dares oppose the creature from beyond. Only he can save the universe from a brutal, blazing cataclysm.
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Quest Beyond the Stars (Popular Library) CF#9

Quest Beyond the Stars
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
142 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2389)
Cover: Jeff Jones
“Captain Future penetrates forbidden space to challenge the evil creatures who lie in wait” — Cover
Venture into darkest space
Mercury is slowly dying. Each year its air grows thiner. Each month thousands of broken Mercurians are ordered to leave their planet.
They have only one hope. Captain Future, the Solar System’s most daring agent, has promised to restore their world – a next to impossible task.
The solutions lies beyond the stars … at the very core of the universe where no man has ventured before. There, in the shadow of doom, Captain Future meets the mightiest of all evil beings – creatures he may not live to describe …
Book Reviews:

  • Luna Monthly. 1:31. June, 1969. (D. Paskow)
  • Venture Science Fiction. 3(2):123-124. August. 1969. (R. Goulart)

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Danger Planet (Popular Library) CF#18

Danger Planet [Red Sun of Danger]
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2335)
Cover: Frazetta
“Introducing Captain Future, one strong man battling the galaxies of evil” — Cover
Danger Planet
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 closer…
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Planets in Peril (Popular Library) CF#12

Planets in Peril
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2416)
“Captain Future plunges into the deadly abyss of an unknown dimension – to reach a dying universe” — cover
Visit from another universe
They were the first arrivals from the other side of the cosmos.
With the help of the Martian scientist Thrin, they had crossed the whirling black abyss of the fourth dimensional – a dimension that had never been reached before.
Now a man with skin of pure marble-white and a woman of unearthly beauty stood before the disbelieving eyes of Captain Future and the Futuremen. The strange couple stared back in awe and amazement – particularly at Captain Future.
“Here is the one,” the man said finally in his alien tongue. “He is the only one who can save us!”
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Outlaws of the Moon (Popular Library)

Outlaws of the Moon
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2399 pbk
“A corrupt scientist plots to invade the moon – and destroy Captain Future” — Cover
CAPTAIN FUTURE IS DEAD!
The sorrowful cry spread throughout the Solar System. Captain Future and his Futuremen had been missing for months. There was little hope that they’d ever be seen again…
A scheming scientist headed for the moon. Now was his chance to find the Futuremen’s hideaway and steal their highly guarded secrets, secrets that could control the Universe. No one could stop him — not even the sinister lunar creatures — now that Captain Future was dead!
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Outlaw World (Popular Library) CF#19

Outlaw World
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
126 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2376)
Cover: Frazetta
“A sinister super-being in a hidden world sets out to demolish the Solar System” — Cover
DREAD PERIL FROM BEYOND DEEP SPACE
Where are they from and what is their ultimate evil purpose?
A band of dread invaders, led by a ruthless genius, is overcoming the system, sapping it of radium – its most vital element – killing all who stand in the way. Captain Future must find their base – their Outlaw World – and crush their deadly plot. He is the last hope in a crumbling solar system.
Book Reviews:

  • World of IF. 19(8):147. October 1969. (L. del Rey)
  • Science Fiction Review. 35:38. Februry 1970. (C. Brandon) [full text]

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The Magician of Mars (Popular Library)

The Magician of Mars
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2450) pbk
“The Solar System’s most dangerous criminal _ an evil super-genus _ sets out to destroy Captain Future” — cover
Captain Future’s most cunning opponent
His real name is Ul Quorn, but he is known throughout the Solar System as the Magician of Mars. With sheer scientific mastery and cunning he once terrorised the entire population of all nine planets – until Captain Future put an end to his evil deeds.
Now Ul Quorn has broken loose from the escape-proof Interplanetary Prison – a feat that was believed impossible. His plan to obtain wealth and power is more ingenious than ever before and more deadly to the System.
Soon he will be master of the Universe. But first he must settle a score with Captain Future…
Book Reviews:

  • Luna Monthly. 19:22. December 1970. (D. Paskow)

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The Haunted Stars (UK edition)

The Haunted Stars
London : H. Jenkins, 1965. –
174 p. ; 20 cm.
Cover: Brian Lewis NUC: 80-547042
It meant little to Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated young philologist, that the United States and Soviet Russia were at odds about the Moon. He had little interest in the first rocket landings on the bases that the two nations had built there.
and he neither knew nor cared why the Americans would not agree to mutual inspections of these bases.
Yet the American had reason enough: and quite unexpectedly, because of his specialized knowledge of languages, he found himself sharing the burden of an incredible secret. For what the Americans base had yielded was astounding evidence that space had already been conquered many countries before bya a people who had once spanned the stars. There had been machines and destructive weapons beyond the comprehension of present-day scientists which, if knowledge of them fell into the wrong hands, could plunge the world into unutterable chaos.
Fairlie’s trip to the closely-guarded rocket base in New Mexico turned out to be only the first step on a fantastic journey amid the unexplored stars to the home-world of the space-conquerors of long ago.
It was a journey into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfed th rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarrelling nations.
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The Haunted Stars : a Science Fiction Novel (Pyramid)

The Haunted Stars : a Science Fiction Novel
New York : Pyramid Books, 1962.2. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Pyramid Books ; F-698)
Cover: Kandinsky
“A tense tale of the near future – and of man’s destiny among” — Cover
They called it operation darkness …
In strictest secrecy the team of scientists and linguistic experts worked feverishly over the ancient manchines and inscriptions they had found on the Moon – relics of a civilization that had visited the Solar System 300 centuries ago. Here was the secret of space travel … the road back to The Haunted Stars.
Then they found the way to use the secret – and with it a truth they dared not face!
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Book review

  • Malcolm, Donald, in: Vector, no. 33, June 1965

The Haunted Stars – Book Club Edition –

The Haunted Stars – Book Club Edition –
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1960.1. –
192 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 59-15721
Note: No price, BOOK CLUB|EDITION in lower right corner of front dust jacket flap. Both club issue. No statement of printing on copyright page. – 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 ???
IT MEANT LITTLE  to young Robert Fairlie, a serious and dedicated philologist, that in this year 1966 the United States and Soviet Russia were contentious about the Moon. He had little interest in the first two rocket landings on the moon, and the bases that the two nations had built there. He knew nothing at all of the shattering discovery that the Americans had made there.
For what had been found was of such explosive potentialities that it had to be kept top-secret – the discovery that space had already been conquered long ago by races who had once spanned the stars. So that men who had expected to spend decades in reaching the nearest planet, found suddenly in their hands the way to the wider universe.
Fairlie, drawn unexpectedly because of his special knowledge into this greatest of secrets, finds that a guarded New Mexico rocket-base is only the first step of the way. That way leads out amid the unexplored stars to the lost heartworld of those space-conquerors of long ago. And it leads Fairlie and others into the appalling reality of stellar space still haunted by the past cosmic struggle whose scale in space and time dwarfs the rivalries of tiny Earth’s quarreling nations.
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The Haunted Stars (Torquil)

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 ???

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.
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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?
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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.
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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…
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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)

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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 …
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  • 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
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.
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City at World's End (Crest 1964)

City at World’s End
Greenwich : Fawcett, 1964. –
160 p. ; 18 cm. – (Crest Book ; L-758)(Fawcett World Library)
Cover: Powers
In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away – Cover
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split open, and above him was a burn and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
This novel describes the shocking experience of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifyingly strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy—but a warning. – Back cover
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City at World's End (Crest 1961)

City at World’s End
Greenwich : Fawcett, 1961. –
160 p. ; 18 cm. – (Crest ; S-494)
Cover: Powers
In one split second they were hurled across time into a world a million miles away – Cover
One moment Kenniston was strolling down the quiet street, lost in pleasant reverie. The next moment the sky split open!
It split open, and above him was a burn and a blaze of light—so swift, so violent, that the air itself seemed to burst into flame.
Then there was silence—awful, suffocating silence.
Kenniston felt the chill of premonition—a shapeless terror that grew into a thing too evil to be borne alone.
This novel describes the shocking experience of a group of ordinary people, catapulted by a mysterious explosion into the terrifyingly strange world of a million years hence. It is not a prophecy—but a warning. – Back cover
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Captain Future's Challenge (Popular Library) CF#3

Captain Future’s Challenge
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
128 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2430)
“The mighty avenger of cosmic evil takes his most daring plunge – towards the raging flames of the sun …” — Cover
CAPTAIN FUTURE FACES FIERY SOLAR DEATH
It was ten o’clock, solar time, when disaster struck. At exactly the same moment, gravium mines on Mercury, Mars and Saturn were totally destroyed by an unidentified army. Without gravium – the life-blood of interplanetary civilization – the system would perish.
Meanwhile, Captain Future struggled on the floor of a moving space craft, his arms and legs bound by steel ropes. He did not know why he’d been captured – only that the system was in grave danger – that he was needed…
As Captain Future was plunged through space, towards a deadly orb of flaming gases – the raging inferno of the sun – he planned his daring escape. It was to be the most dangerous gamble of his life.
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Captain Future and the Space Emperor (Popular Library) CF#1

Captain Future and the Space Emperor
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
121 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2457) pbk
“A creeping menace invades the galaxy – and Captain Future meets his most powerful enemy …” — Cover
MAN OR MUTANT? A LIFE-OR-DEATH QUESTION FOR CAPTAIN FUTURE …
President Carthew was in his office when the monster appeared— a giant, hunched creature, bizarrely hideous …
The President gaped as a guard appeared in the door-way and pointed his weapon at the fanged being.
“Don’t shoot”, Carthew cried, but too late. The beast lay dead on the floor.
Carthew sighed deeply as he confirmed his fears. The corpse on the floor was Sperling, his best secret agent, transformed into this hairy brute by the dread peril that threatened to destroy them all.
Only one man left alive might be able to ward off total doom. The President flashed and emergency call for Captain Future …

Calling Captain Future (Popular Library) CF#2

Calling Captain Future
New York : Popular Library, 1969. –
144 p. ; 18 cm. – (Popular Library ; 60-2421) pbk.
“Captain Future, Wizard of Science, mighty adventurer, meets his match in a war of solar doom” — Cover
Captain Future -great enemy of evil- is called on to save humanity
James Carthew, President of the Solar System, watched from the government tower, his face lined with worry. Outside thousands of people were demonstrating. Once loyal citizens, they now urged Carthew to yield his power to a diabolic stranger named Dr. Zarro – a being from another mysterious system who had hypnotized the entire population with fear.
Carthews knew that Zarro would surely destroy humanity, but how could he prove it? There was only one man who could – perhaps – help him.
“Calling Captain Future!” The message beeped urgently from the high tower, out across the heavens. “Calling Captain Future!”
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Battle for the Stars (Torquil)

Battle for the Stars
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1961.11. –
iv, 206 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book)
LCCN: 61-15300
Note: trade issue, with price “$2.95” at upper right corner of front inner flap, and which, released in November 1961, preceded the Book Club edition, which was a December 1961 selection (both issues printed from the same pressing, both having printing code “C42” on page 206 — Currey
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Battle for the Stars (Paperback Library 52-609)

Battle for the Stars
New York : Paperback Library, 1967. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Paperback Library ; 52-609)
(Science Fiction Series) pbk $0.5
NUC70-71455; LCCN61-15300
“In a galaxy gone wild, Earth’s fate depended on one man and one spaceship” — Cover
Cluster World N-356-44
“It was no place for a man to be. Men were tissue, blood, bone, nerve. This place was not made for them. It was made for force and radiation. Go home, men.
But I can’t thought Jay Birrel. Not yet … I have to go on into this place where a human being looks as pathetic as an insect in a furnace”
And so begins Edmond Hamilton’s most fascinating inter-planetary adventure – Battle for the Stars.
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Battle for the Stars (Paperback Library 52-311)

Battle for the Stars
New York : Paperback Library, 1964.8. –
159 p. ; 18 cm. – (Paperback Library ; 52-311) pbk. $0.50
NUC70-71455
“In a galaxy gone wild, Earth’s fate depended on one man and one spaceship” — Cover
Cluster World N-356-44
“It was no place for a man to be. Men were tissue, blood, bone, nerve. This place was not made for them. It was made for force and radiation. Go home, men.
But I can’t thought Jay Birrel. Not yet … I have to go on into this place where a human being looks as pathetic as an insect in a furnace”
And so begins Edmond Hamilton’s most fascinating inter-planetary adventure – Battle for the Stars.
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Battle for the Stars (Book Club Edition)

Battle for the Stars (Book Club Edition)
New York : Distributed by Dodd-Mead, 1961.12. –
iv, 206 p. ; 22 cm. – (A Torquil Book) LCCN: 61-15300
Note: “BOOK CLUB/EDITION” at the lower right corner of the front flap of the original, first printing dust jacket is unclipped. — Currey
Note: Has printing code “4” on page 192 — Currey
“Time is the great deceiver, science fiction writers, who probe the future, are really writing historical novels of what will soon be the past.”
Now that both the United States and Russia have put an astronaut in space novel like this fascinating tale by Edmond Hamilton are as topical as they are gripping. In this story we see the descendants of the first astronauts celebrating the 200th anniversary of the first space flight from the “ancient planet” Earth. Jay Birrel, Captain of a squadron of space ships from Lyra constellation, is there with his lovely wife Lyllin, who was born on Vega. Alson present is Ferdias, Governor of Lyra, and Tausner, top agent of constellation Orion.
Jay and Lyllin, just back from a harrowing experience on a planet in cluster N-356-44, where they discovered that Orion is plotting against Lyra, are amazed and intrigued by the quaint, old-fashioned character of the planet from which all humanity came. They are living in an old farm house, north of New York City, when they discover that the Orion faction is plotting again. Before long Jay finds himself involved in a mighty battle between Lyra and Orion in which the courageous but ill-equipped natives of Earth fight beside the astronauts of Lyra to save the independence of the Home Planet.
Once again Edmond Hamilton has written a novel that holds the reader by its vivid characterization and its terse narrative style as well as by its imaginative exploration of the future that is now just around the corner.
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