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Captain Future Vol. 1 #3 (Summer, 1940).  Cover art by Earle K. Bergey.

Science fiction and comic book author (and husband of The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Leigh Blackett) Edmond Hamilton wrote the bulk of Captain Future’s stories.  However, he did not create the character as many sources would have you believe.

The good Captain was actually created by Leo Margulies and future Superman editor Mort Weisinger.  Both editors at Better Publications, which began publishing Captain Future in 1940 after first announcing the hero at the very first World Science Fiction Convention in 1939.