OPUS#152 Doom Over Venus

OPUS: #152
Title: Doom Over Venus
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novelette
“Clark Stanton hurtles from the make-believe world of a Venusian dream palace to the grim reality of a fobbiden citadel of science!
Publications:

  • Thrilling Wonder Stories, Vol. 15, no. 2, February 1940, (Feb 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Paul

ebook: https://archive.org/details/Thrilling_Wonder_Stories_v15n02_1940-02/page/n85/mode/2up?view=theater

OPUS#151 Three Planeteers, The

OPUS: #151
Title: The Three Planeteers (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: novel
Note: The Two Thousand Centuries
“From Earth, Venus and Mercury, three Musketeers of Space, accompanied by a female D’Artagnan, rocket out in a grim battle against the League of the Cold Worlds!”
「地球人、火星人、金生人のトリオが、太陽系を股にかけて、悪の軍勢にたちむかうという、むちゃくちゃなお話である。」 – マイク・アシュリー著; 牧眞司訳『SF雑誌の歴史 : パルプマガジンの饗宴』(東京創元社, 2004.7) p. 170
Contents:
01 Comrades of Peril 13
02 Cold-World Menace 16
03 Into the Zone 22
04 Pirate Princess 26
05 Secret Enemy 31
06 The Trap 36
07 Shadow of the League 40
08 Out of the Past 44
09 Imprisoned Planeteers 50
10 Under Saturn’s Rings 55
11 Secret Police 58
12 Citadel of Fear 64
13 Dictator of Worlds 68
14 Under the Psychophones 72
15 Though the Tempest 76
16 Forbidden World 80
17 In the Shining Wastes 85
18 Damned Souls of Erebus 89
19 Cheerly’s Cunning 92
20 At Uranus’ Orbit 96
21 The Fight on the Moon 101
22 Blaine’s Weapon 104-105, 120, 122-126
23 Epilogue 126-129
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 3, no. 1, January 1940, (Jan 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Brown Illust: Finlay

Review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 6. “Typical rip-roaring Hamilton space opera. Nothing exceptional, but a rattling good yarn of three adventurers of the spaceways—an Earthling, a Martian and a Venusian–who join forces to combat the malevolent machinations of the evil League of the Cold Worlds to dominate the entire Solar System, including an heroic journey to the radioactive world of Erebus, outermost outpost of Sol’s family. This was possibly the prototype novel for the later Captain Future novels that started in their own magazine, a companion to both Startling Stories and Thrilling Wonder Stories, in Spring of 1940. “

OPUS#150 Captain Future and the Space Emperor [CF#1]

OPUS: #150
Title: Captain Future and the Space Emperor
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1940
Type: NOVEL
Series: Captain Future
Series Number: 1
“Follow the quest of Curtis Newton, wizardman of science, as he scours the worlds of tomorrow in the hunt for the greatest interplanetary outlaw of all time!”

Publications:

  • Captain Future, Vol. 1, no. 1, Winter 1940, (Jan 1940, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Rozen; Illust: Wesso
  • Captain Future and the Space Emperor, (1969, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Popular Library, #60-2457, $0.60, 128pp, pb) Cover: Herbert J. Bruck
  • The Collected Captain Future: Wizard of Science: Volume One:, (Jul 2009, Edmond Hamilton, publ. Haffner Press, 1-893887-35-9, $40.00, xxii+723pp, hc, omni) Cover: George Rozen

Reviews:

  • Review by Tony Lewis (1970) in Locus, February 23, 1970
  • Son of WSFA Journal. 21:7. May 1971. (R.Weston)

OPUS#149 Dweller in the Darkness

OPUS: #149
Title: Dweller in the Darkness
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story

“A public enemy gains the advantage of complete invisibility – only to find it the supreme curse!”–TOC
“Public Enemy Number One Forces Dr. Geary to give him the secret of invisibility, so that he could better prey upon his victims – but he does not suspect the awful horror that accompanies the experiment!”

Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 1, no. 4, October 1939, (Oct 1939, ed. Charles D. Hornig, publ. Blue Ribbon Magazines, $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul; Illust: Schomburg
  • Science Fiction (UK), October 1939

ebook: https://archive.org/details/sciencefictionv01n04193910/page/n55/mode/2up

OPUS#148 Horror Out of Carthage

OPUS: #148
Title: Horror Out of Carthage
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: novelette
“Across 2000 years went Blaine and Edith to find themselves doomed by history to die in the conquest of ancient Carthage.” – Fantastic Adventures
“Ever wonder where those old “horror” movies originate? We’re not claiming they all came from the pen of Ed Hamilton, but there is what may very well be the original plot idea for all of them. There’s this old archeologist see, and he has a beauteous daughter and they’re on this dig when all-of-a-sudden…” – Fantastic

Publications:

  • Fantastic Adventures, Vol. 1, no. 3, September 1939, (Sep 1939, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 100pp, Bedsheet, magazine), pp. 6-23. Cover: Harold W. McCauley
  • Fantastic, Vol. 17, no. 6, August 1968, (Aug 1968, ed. Harry Harrison, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.50, 148pp, Digest, magazine), pp. 23-50, 142. Illust : Jay Jackson

Reviews:

  • Gallagher, Edward J., The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, Starmont House, 1985, p. 3. “At the time of the Roman invasion the King of Carthage and the high priestess of Moloch project their minds across time and trade bodies with an archeologist excavating Carthage and his fiance. Only the aid of the King’s jealous wife enables the two Americans to reverse the mind travel process and escape hideous death at the hands of the Romans or sacrifice to Moloch.”

ebook: https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=37013

OPUS#147 Debtor at Eight

OPUS: #147
Title: Debtor at Eight
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story or vignette
“There’s a time and place for everything, even murder, but eight o’clock in a modern study, isn’t it!”
Publication:

  • Detective Short Stories [v2 #4, September 1939] (Manvis Publications, Inc., 10¢, 116pp, pulp), pp. 68-70?.

OPUS#146 Man Who Solved Death, The

OPUS: #146
Title: The Man Who Solved Death
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: short story
“Dr. White dares the vengeance of the Unknown in his quest for knowledge – and a terrible condemnation comes from beyond the grave!”–TOC

Publications:

  • Science Fiction, Vol. 1, no. 3, August 1939, (Aug 1939, ed. Charles D. Hornig, publ. Blue Ribbon Magazines, $0.35, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Frank R. Paul

OPUS#145 Short-Wave Madness

OPUS: #145
Title: Short-Wave Madness
Author: Robert Castle (Edmond Hamilton)
Year: 1939
Type: short story
Dr Gorrell’s great discovery gave him the powers of a god! All the secrets of the Universe were to be his, until that mighty, cosmic voice from out of the Infinite spoke: “You have gone to far!”–TOC
“Are there any limits to the progress of mankind? Are there any secrets that are forever forbidden to the minds of this world? Dr Gorrell finds a horrible affirmative in the realm beyond space!”

Publication:

  • Science Fiction [v1 #2, June 1939] (15¢, 132pp, pulp, cover by Frank R. Paul), pp. 57-61. Illustrated by Frank R. Paul.

OPUS#144 Prisoner of Mars, The

OPUS: #144
Title: The Prisoner of Mars (Complete Novel)
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Variant Title of: Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown (by Edmond Hamilton)
Type: NOVEL
「[註:後の『スター・キング』の原型となった作品。] 若いアメリカ人フィリップ・クレインが、偶然ある機械を見つけだすのだが、たちまちその機械によって火星に運ばれてしまう。そこで彼は自分が亡き王の息子であり、現在の君主ラヌーの異父兄弟だということを知る。ところで、このラヌーは誘拐されたばかりなので、フィリップは何も状況が分からないままに、自分の役割を演じなければならない。そのうえ、彼は兄弟とあまりにもよく似ているので、ラヌーの婚約者マーラ姫も間違えてしまう。マーラはラヌーをまったく愛していなかったけれども、政治的な理由でラヌーと結婚することになってしまっていたのである。マーラはフィリップに心を奪われてしまうが、フィリップはすでに地球人の婚約者ケイがいたので話はややこしくなる。」- ジャック・サドゥール著; 鹿島茂,鈴木秀治訳『現代SFの歴史』(早川書房, 1984.12) p. 187-188
Publications:

  • Startling Stories, Vol. 1, no. 3, May 1939, (May 1939, ed. Mort Weisinger, publ. Better Publications, Inc., $0.15, 132pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Howard V. Brown; Illust: Wesso
  • Tharkol, Lord of the Unknown, (1950, Edmond Hamilton, publ. World Distributors / Sydney Pemberton, 1/6, 160pp, pb) Cover: H. W. Wesso

Review:

  • Gammell, Leon L., The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, Starmont House, 1986, p. 4. “Interplanetary Prisoner of Zenda-type pastiche, by the late grand old master of the space opera, largely forgotten and neglected nowadays. Though born of an Earthly mother, Philip Crain discovers that his father was the advance guard of a Martian invasion force, accidentally marooned on Earth for his entire lifetime, and his look-alike cousin is the ruler of Mars. Accidentally transported to Mars via matter-transmitter, he becomes quickly involved in the political intrigue, swashbuckling action and eventual exchange of identities that is the usual hallmark of this kind of story, but Hamilton’s novel is fast-paced and exciting, and should make good reading even today, interspersed with interesting characters to liven up the plot, among whom are a diabolical mechanical brain manipulating the inhabitants of two worlds for its own obscure purposes and a giant robot servant, almost human in its faithfulness and loyalty, perhaps a foreshadowing of the irrepressible Grag of the Captain Future series. At the end of the story, Hamilton offers an ingenious solution for resolving the difficulties of the two warring planets, which stem largely from the Red World’s desperate need for water for her dead and desiccated oceans, very simply accomplished by transporting the terrestrial polar ice-caps to Mars through the matter-transmitters that were to provide passage originally for her invading armies. Who knows? Perhaps this will be the very method used in terraforming Mars to make it livable for our first colonies in the not-so-distant future, even as Hamilton’s storybook space-suits were the prototype for the ones used by today’s astronauts! “

OPUS#142 Valley of Invisible Men

OPUS: #142
Title: Valley of Invisible Men
Author: Edmond Hamilton
Year: 1939
Type: novella
“Invisible men fought beside him as Mark Bradford battled to defend the Shining God from an unscrupulous Baltic agent.” – Science Fiction Adventure Classics
Publications:

  • Amazing Stories, Vol. 13, no. 3, March 1939, (Mar 1939, ed. Raymond A. Palmer, publ. Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, $0.20, 148pp, Pulp, magazine) Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust: Robert A. Fuqua
  • Science Fiction Adventure Classics, November 1972, (Nov 1972, ed. uncredited, publ. Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc., $0.60, 132pp, digest, magazine), pp. 30-72 Cover: Robert Fuqua; Illust : Robert A. Fuqua

Contents:
Chapter 1 In the Hidden Land
Chapter 2 Daughter of the Korlu
Chapter 3 The Games of the Full Moon
Chapter 4 The Fight on the Lake
Chapter 5 The Chamber of the God
Chapter 6 Phantoms in the Night
Chapter 7 The City of Peril
Chapter 8 Power of the God
Chapter 9 Epilogue